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Wolt voted Europe’s hottest startup in Tech5’s 2020 competition Wolt: Climate-conscious food delivery Wolthelps customers fulfill their hunger cravings anytime, anywhere with an easy-to-use app for convenient food delivery to homes or offices. Currently, the company’s platform consists of over 15,000 restaurants that span 90 cities in 23 countries. In 2019, Wolt started tocompensate for the Co2 emissionsits deliveries create. This includes the emissions from all past deliveries, dating back to 2015....

Women equal men in computing skill, but are less confident Why it matters With a rapid expansion of employment in STEM areas, the shortage of qualified labor has risen to the level ofnational importance. Yet the proportion ofwomen in STEM careers remains around 24%even though women make up almost 50% of the overall workforce. The causes of thisgender gapare often attributed tocultural and institutional biases against women in technology fields, andgovernments and other institutionshave made significant efforts to reduce this gap....

In Saudi Arabia women took to the streets in a struggle to earn the basic right todrive. They bravely posted their videos on YouTube, shared their stories with international media, and five of them have since paid the price, with theirarrests. Women in Saudi Arabia represent one extreme of what it means to be a woman in the Middle East. Throughout the region, a woman’s experiences are as varied as the Middle Eastern dialects....

Google is not known for great design. That’s not to say that minimalist design cannot be great design. There are many extraordinary cases of excellent minimalist design. And I’m not saying that Google’s user experience is bad: by keeping simple, the most basic features, at least, are easy to grasp — just don’t go looking at your account settings or anything like that. Android has long been lambasted as an ugly mobile OS in a world where aesthetic seems more important than feature set....

Theme shop giantWooThemeshasannouncedthat is pulling the sale of themes developed for several platforms and refocusing the business entirely onWordPressdevelopment. The company says that it didn’t have the knowledge, passion or community presence to be as successful developing for theExpressionEngine,Tumblr,DrupalandMagentoplatforms as they have been with WordPress. WooThemes says it will support the products that are being pulled until the end of April, at which time customers will be migrated over to the support systems of independent providers who are taking over the products....