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In July 1969, when Apollo 11 took off from the east coast of Florida, I was in the VIP viewing area, 2.8 miles away from the launch pad. It was overwhelming. I yelled: ‘Wait for me!’ Others watching nearby, including the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, responded similarly. Even Abernathy, many more miles away, was overcome with a sense of awe, forgetting momentarily his protest on behalf of the hungry. I got bit by the space bug as a teenager in the early 1950s, reading Wernher von Braun’s articles in the old Collier’s magazine about sending a fleet of manned spaceships to Mars....

The neighborhood social network said the deal would give the business an equity value of around $4.3 billion. Up front: Nextdoor announced its plan after usage surged during lockdowns. The app, which neighbors use to communicate with each other, reported a 50% annual growth in daily active users last year. Instead of going public via a traditional IPO, the company has chosen to merge with a SPAC launched by VC firm Khosla Ventures....

The app comes in at under 10MB, and is set to stream tunes at ‘Basic’ quality by default, which the company says should work out to roughly 0.5MB per song on average. You can set this to Spotify’s highest quality streams if you like, too. The interface is pretty much the same as the standard Android app, but includes features to track your mobile data usage for streaming music, and to set a limit on how much data you’ll let the app use before it notifies you....

But — and here comes the part you’re interested in — Spotify has gotten substantially better at being your central music hub. And I’m gonna tell you why: because it has removed its 10K library limit. Considering this ticket was first raised in 2014, it’s shocking it took this long to be implemented. [Read: Future AirPods might jam light sensors into your ears because… health] Previously, you could only save 10K items (effectively songs or albums) in a Spotify library....

The company recently announced the #StayHome Elements Collection, allowing you to try Cubase, Dorico, and WaveLab Elements for 60 days free of charge. The package also includes the Absolute Collection of VST instruments and effects, including over 6,800 presets and over 100 GB of sounds. These range from synth effects, to percussion, to orchestral samples. Individually, Cubase, Dorico, and WaveLab Elements cost $99 a piece, while the Absolute Collection would normally set you back $500....

Peugeot surveyed 1,250 children, aged between seven and 12 years old, and their parents or guardians and 54.2% of the little whipper-snappers said they’ve tried to get their parents to be more environmentally aware. That includes getting their elders to recycle, reuse, and even switch to an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle, AM Online reports. Perhaps it’s the Greta Thunberg effect, but over two-thirds of children in the study say they have started caring more for the environment recently....

Telegram outlined its case in a court filing submitted on Tuesday, where it refuted all the allegations made by the SEC. “Plaintiff’s claims are without merit as Telegram’s private placement to highly sophisticated, accredited investors was conducted pursuant to valid exemptions to registration under the federal securities laws and Grams will not be securities when they are created at the time of launch on the TON Blockchain,” the filing reads....

Mishra said on his blog the app stored images in the “/Telegram/Telegram Images/” folder in the phone’s internal storage even if a user chooses to remove it for all users. Horrifically, this applied to group chats as well which can have as many as 200,000 members. The video below shows the bug in action. The messenger launched the unsend feature in 2017 that allows you to delete a message for everyone in the chat....

This is a trope commonly attributed to Henry Ford speaking about the Model T, but it’s probably (definitely) not true. The point, though, was that offering the vehicle with limited color choices made it cheaper to produce. Black reportedly dried fastest, which meant manufacturing time went down and margins went up. [Read: COVID-19 canceled doctors’ office visits — these startups are bringing the doctor to you] In recent years Tesla has been following a similar strategy, and now offers its vehicles in just a handful of colors, which are all as boring as, well, watching that very paint dry....

The Tesla Model 3 was the number one selling EV in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, according to figures shared by EV-Sales blog. [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] Germany In Germany, 3,699 Tesla Model 3s were sold in March. The second most popular EV was the VW e-Up! which sold 3,599 units. The Hyundai Kona EV came in third, selling 3,237 vehicles....

So much has changed over the year of the pandemic. Now that many areas are starting to bounce back and restart the pre-COVID ways of life, work, and commerce, it’s probably worth considering if some of those old ways should remain a memory of the past, giving way to new methods in a post-pandemic world. Like…do you really need to drive to work every day? Before the world changed, people spent more than 100 hours per year traveling to and from work....

In the old days, my dear, before every handset was just an enormous screen, phones came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Most of them were hideous and stupid, but at least they had charm. Many of these cellular gems are in the Mobile Phone Museum. The collection of over 2,000 models has been meticulously transferred to an online exhibition, with photos dripping with nostalgia and details on each device....

Packing up a cooler for a day at the beach or a weekend in the woods always sounds like a great idea. Of course, that usually requires liberal chunks of ice to help make sure everything stays cools. Which cuts down on what you can actually pack while adding several extra pounds you have to lug around. And you better keep an eye on all that ice because once it starts to melt, everything inside is going to turn into a soggy mess....

Habits are hot. Self-help articles extol the power of habits and books on the topic sell by the millions. Yet, like many pop psychology topics, the conventional wisdom about the effectiveness and application of habits is frequently outdated, misapplied, or flat out wrong. Building habits to change behavior the right way can be a wonderful tool to improve your life. But false notions about what habits are and what they can do can backfire....

But just because we don’t live day-to-day existences obsessing over minutiae, doesn’t mean this doesn’t happen. App design is a perfect example of this. When we use something like Spotify or Uber or Deliveroo, we tend to focus on what it does on the surface. Is it easy to search for a song? Can the taxi find me? Is the restaurant open? Yet there there are levels of design beyond this....

Yet even after Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pros, which seem to outclass their closest Windows competitors in nearly every performance metric, I don’t have the slightest interest in switching. Not because I’m intractably loyal to Windows, but because compared to the variety of form factors available for Windows PCs, I find the new MacBooks…. well, kind of boring. And I’ve felt that way for years. That’s not to diminish Apple’s achievements with the M1 Pro and M1 Max, but I doubt the new MacBook Pros will fundamentally alter the way most customers use their laptops....

Up front: According to the NFL, the contest is supposed to help solve its injury problems using machine learning. Here’s what the league had to say in today’s press release: Okay. So the NFL didn’t challenge developers to create AI-powered sensors to detect impacts or machine-learning solutions to help guide medical professionals during on-field incident evaluations. Insights from the data will be used to inform the NFL’s injury reduction efforts, which include driving innovation in protective equipment design, safety-based rules changes and improvements to coaching and training strategies....

Tests of the COVID 19 Capacity Planning and Analysis System (CPAS) began today at four hospitals in England. If the trials are successful, the tool will be rolled out across the country. “CPAS allows individual hospitals to plan ahead, ensuring they can give the best care to every patient,” said Professor Jonathan Benger, the Chief Medical Officer of NHS Digital. “At the same time, the wider NHS can ensure that the ventilators, other equipment, and drugs that each intensive care unit will need are in place at exactly the time they are required....

Specifically, Nintendo says the Switch — which includes the Switch Classic and the Lite model — has sold 52.48 million units worldwide to date. With this new number, the Nintendo Switch has officially surpassed its ancestor, the Super Nintendo (49.1 million). It’s also sold quadruple what its immediate predecessor, the Wii U, ever did (13 million). It’s still only half of the PS4’s roughly 103 million consoles sold, but then again the Switch has only been on the market a fraction of the time....

The phone gets a minor processor bump in Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+. The 7T has gained a very little screen space from the OnePlus 7, it gets support for 90Hz refresh rate. Which makes it a super responsive and smooth display. In the camera department, the new phone gains a wide-angle camera over its predecessor. Take a look at the phone’s specifications at a glance: Screen: 6.55-inch FullHD AMOLED at 1080 x 2400 resolution, 90Hz refresh rate (you’ll be able to scroll faster) Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+, octa-core, up to 2....