Here’s why cargo bikes make more sense than vans for inner city deliveries They’re quicker Time and time again it has been shown that cargo bikes can get the job done quicker in cities.Data from a cycle logistics hubset up in car-addicted Sydney in 2016 showed that cargo bikes travelled a third few kilometers than vans, taking less than half the time to complete their rounds in the CBD. But how?...

Here’s why cassette tape sales doubled during the pandemic Hit rewind Against a backdrop of a pandemic that has done hugedamage to the music industry, 2020 could justifiably be called the year of the cassette. According to British Phonographic Industry figures,156,542 cassetteswere sold in the UK last year, the highest figure since 2003 and an increase of 94.7% on 2019 sales. Seemingly out of the blue, global pop icons such as Lady Gaga, the 1975, andDua Lipahave started rushing out their new releases on cassette – and they’re selling out....

Here’s why developers are in love with functional programming It’s all about killing side effects To understand functional programming, we need to understand functions first. This might sound boring, but at the end of the day, it’s pretty insightful. So keep reading. A function, naively stated, is a thing that transforms some input into some output. Except that it’s not always that simple. Consider this function in Python: This function is dumb and simple; it takes one variable x, presumably an int, or perhaps a float or double, and spits out the square of that....

While EVs are less likely to catch fire than cars with internal combustion engines, when they do, it’s worse. Much worse. The culprit? Their lithium-ion batteries. To better understand why lithium-ion batteries can sometimes be hazardous, let’s first refresh how they work. A li-ion battery comprises of four key elements: a positive electrode (the cathode), a negative electrode (the anode), an electrolyte, and a separator. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

Here’s why Facebook users in Australia can’t see news in their News Feed anymore Why did it come to this? Australia’s argument while drawing up this law was that big tech benefits from showing news on its platform(like Facebook’s News Feed and Google’s search results), so it should pay media sites. Facebook and Google reasonedthat it’s not mandatory for publishers to make their content available on their platforms. Plus, said publishers earn advertising revenue through clicks generated from these tech companies’ platforms....