Domino’s brings piping hot pizzas to the iPad in the UK

Domino’s Pizzaon Tuesday launchedits official iPad app on the UK App Store, allowing you to order your pizza, pay for it and then sit back and track it as it makes its way from the store to your house, all using the slick interface of a native app. Built bySomo, It joins the already existingiPhoneandAndroidapps of the company’s American counterpart. You can use the iPad app to choose from any pizza from the menu, along with the sides, desserts and drinks that you want; payment options include PayPal, credit cards and cash-on-delivery....

2 min · 273 words · Charles Hawkins

Domino’s demonstrates the importance of mobile commerce as orders top £130,000 in one day

Domino’s Pizza, one of the world’s most popular pizza chains, continues to demonstrate the effectiveness of establishing an online presence and developing mobile applications after the company announced its biggest day ever for online sales last Saturday, taking over £1 million in orders, with13% of them made via mobile devices. That means that on October 8, Domino’s saw £130,000 in orders made via its iPhone, iPad and Android applications but also its mobile website – and that’s just in the UK....

2 min · 383 words · Rhonda Jackson

Don’t adjust your screen: Twitter has a new font for improved accessibility

Yes, you’re not the only one. All of us logging intoTwitter last night had a little shock when we saw a new set of fonts and design changes across the platform. It might take us a while to get used to it, and we might it hate it for a while. But the company explained in a thread that why it made these changes: the primary reason is accessibility. First, Twitter’s new fonts are called Chirp (cute name), and the company claims they are designed to make reading easier when you’re scrolling through tweets....

3 min · 464 words · Julie Nichols

Don’t be dull, NASA — let us explore some strange space moons

It’s been 30 years since Nasa last visited Venus, withthe Magellan orbiterin 1990. Now,two new missionshave been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing pressures, and volcanic landscape. The process dates back to February 2020, when Nasa announced that four missions were to undergo a nine-month peer-review process for feasibility. They were all part of theDiscovery program, started by Nasa in 1992 to bring together scientists and engineers to create exciting, groundbreaking missions....

4 min · 830 words · Jacqueline Cook

Don’t be perfect, people hate it

Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! The amount of time and effort I spend on being efficient is… highly inefficient. I’ll spend more timethinkingabout how to efficiently plan meetings than the time I’m actuallyinthem. I know it isn’t very pleasant for me and those around me — but the perfectionist in me won’t let go....

3 min · 553 words · Brandon Sutton
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