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We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID 1. Moving goods While social distancing stopped us from physically going out to shop, it certainly didn’t stop us from moving our shopping habits online. During the lockdown period, there was a major spike in ecommerce — COVID-19 actually accelerated ecommerce’s growth byfour to six years— with people ordering everything from board games to noise-canceling headphones to make quarantine life more bearable....

Followingleaked reportsthat the UK government would be scrapping plans for the UK’s long-awaited high-speed rail to extend to Leeds, transport secretary Grant Shappshas announcedin the House of Commons that the eastern leg of HS2 will now reach only from Birmingham to the East Midlands, and that an additional high-speed line between Leeds and Manchester would no longer be built. Instead, the newly publishedIntegrated Rail Plan for the North and the Midlands, sets out proposals to upgrade existing lines to reduce journey times between the cities sooner (although not by as much)....

These days, Slack and other professional communication software is as ubiquitous as email. This means that when something changes, it’s a Big Deal. For me, at least Something Slack rolled out in the last several months is calledHuddles, a live audio feature that’s effectivelya Clubhouse clone. The idea is rather than having a full blown meeting, you have a Huddle instead, which is an audio-only discussion with everyone in that specific channel or chat....

In the mid-1990s, there was research going on at Stanford University that would change the way we think about computers. The Media Equation experiments were simple:participants were asked to interact with a computer that acted socially for a few minutes after which, they were asked to give feedback about the interaction. Participants would provide this feedback either on the same computer (No. 1) they had just been working on or on another computer (No....

Batteries, am I right? You can’t live with ’em, you can’t… Ah screw a fancy lede: This is an article where I chart the battery life ofthe iPhone 12 range. We’ll find answers to which of Apple’s phones has the worst and best battery life and, hopefully, have a bit of fun along the way. We may even learn something. But… before we begin the comparison of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max, let’s have a quick chat about the methodology behind this....