šĀ Sharing is CaringĀ ā¤ļø view Pulse online and share it with your friends and colleagues. Hello and wel
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šĀ Sharing is CaringĀ ā¤ļø - view Pulse online and share it with your friends and colleagues.
Hello and welcome to Pulse āĀ the weekly techie/businessy newsletter fromĀ @perspectiveix. Iām your host, Ben, and today Iām keeping it short.
Hereās a roundup of the past week for you to catch up.
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WinXP source code leak, Apple giving Facebook discounts, Facebook complaining about Apple [link]
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Instagramās bug, Appleās bug fix, and Facebookās āmistakeā [link]
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Zuckās balancing act, Googleās COVID19 Map, and iOS 14 [link]
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Teslaās Battery Day, Amazon Prime Day, PTSD [link]
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Trumpās TikTok dealās falling apart, Microsoftās new acquisition, and Quibi needs a way out [link]
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TikTokās fate, Windowsā super bug, and Racism [link]
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Credit: Benjamin Child on Unsplash
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Post-Pandemic Workforce Responses to a McKinsey global survey of 800 executives suggest a disruptive period of workplace changes lies ahead due to acceleration of automation, digitisation, and other trends. Some remote work is here to stay, but not for everyone or for every workday. Before the pandemic, remote work had struggled to establish much of a beachhead, as companies worried about its impact on productivity and corporate culture. With the advent of COVID-19, however, tens of millions of employees were sent home, armed with laptops and other digital technologies, to start work. Now, some employers intend to increase the number of their employees working remotely at least some of the time, although at far lower levels than seen during lockdowns and quarantines.
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Top Streaming Apps Worldwide for August 2020 by Downloads
NetflixĀ was the most downloaded streaming app worldwide for August 2020 with more than 19.2 million installs. YouTubeĀ was the second most installed streaming app worldwide last month with more than 17.7 million installs.
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The Countries With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers
The rise of the machines has well and truly started. Data from theĀ International Federation of RoboticsĀ reveals that the pace of industrial automation is accelerating across much of the developed world with 74Ā installed industrial robotsĀ per 10,000 employees globally in 2016. by 2020, that increased to 113 across the manufacturing sector. Asia now has a robot density of 118 units per 10,000 workers and that figure is 114 and 103 in Europe and the Americas, respectively . China is one of the countries recording the highest growth levels in industrial automation but nowhere has a robot density like South Korea.
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Home Screen Customization App Installs Surpass 13 Million Since iOS 14 Launch
A week after iOS 14ās launch, the top home screen customization apps hit at least 13.7 million installs, according to Sensor Tower data.
and see a couple of my favourites below š
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Widgetsmith [iOS] & Widgetly [iOS]
customise your iOS home screen
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BurnoutIndex: Check your burnout risk. Backed by science, forever-free.
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Simpdf: Edit PDF like a word doc
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- Spotify is working on moving the settings button from the home page to the library page [link]
- Medium is working on a new logo [link]
- Instagram is working on Collaboration Controls for interactive AR effects [link]
- Twitter is working on the āOuchā reaction to tweets [link]
- Instagram is working on the possibility of changing the app icon by offering different alternatives [link]
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The Man Who Sold The World - by Nirvana
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Khan Academy: Sal Khan - How I Built This with Guy Raz
In 2009, Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was ignited five years earlier, when he was helping his young cousins do math homework over the computer. They loved his clear explanations and soon he was posting free tutorials on Youtube, where they started to attract the attention of thousands of users around the world. Sal realised he could help democratise learning by building a free platform to teach math, science, and the humanities. Today, Khan Academy offers hundreds of free recorded tutorials in dozens of languages. During the pandemic, its popularity has surged to 30 million users a month. one of the best episodes of HIBT. inspiring.
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There's a lot to say about it if you don't know what it is.
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"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
ā Eckhart Tolle
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Do you recognise yourself in the mirror you call others?
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Americans will use anything except the metrics system as a unit of measure - Credit: GallifreyKnight/Reddit
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see you next week. ciao.
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