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We’re in an age when consumers and businesses are more aware than ever about the need to build a more sustainable world. But how can we make our lives and our businesses more sustainable? What are the seemingly small/simple changes we can introduce to make a big impact tomorrow? These were just two of the questions that Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles explored on a city trip with the innovative ID. Buzz Cargo concept car to one of Europe’s sustainability tech capitals, Amsterdam....

TLDR:The Fundamentals of Product Design eBook Bundle by O’Reilly features five books detailing the steps for creating successful products that people want to buy. Design is often a very ephemeral thing. A creator builds a website or an app or another web experience based on an almost instinctual feel for what looks good, what works well, and what they think users will enjoy and embrace. While that innate design sense is probably what got them started in web development in the first place, they undoubtedly refined that feeling over the years through some hard-won practical experience....

Post Planneris a startup that aims to serve businesses on Facebook by providing an app that practically takes away all the actual effort required in updating a Page yourself. The app allows you to schedule posts on your own Page, run repeating posts, and post to multiple Facebook groups/Pages at the same time. As if this wasn’t enough, they’ve also created a database of 3,000 pre-written Facebook updates that you can access and schedule through the app....

Tribute bands are great because even if you might not be able to see your favorite artists live, they recreate that magic to some extent. But what if that tribute band is an AI? Over The Bridge, a Canada-based non-profit that helps musicians with mental health, has started a new AI-powered project called Lost Tapes of the 27 Club. The organization is using machine learning tobreak down songs of artists who died at 27, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Kobain — and compose original tunes based on their musical stylings....

The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole ofArgentina, according torecent estimatesfrom the University of Cambridge. That’s because the creation of a bitcoin, in a process calledmining, is achieved by powerful computers that work night and day to decode and solve complex mathematical problems. The energy these computers consume is unusually high. Police in the UK recently raided what they believed to be an extensive indoor marijuana-growing operation, only to discover that the huge electricity usage that had aroused their suspicions was actually coming from abitcoin-mining setup....