Virgin Hyperloop has announced a pivot from focussing on passenger travel to concentrating on carrying freight. They say the change in direction was brought about because of global supply chain issues and COVID.
Grow Remote published a playbook for SMEs describing how best to approach or transition to remote working, based on the experience from a network of remote working companies in Ireland.
The Stack Overflow blog published an interesting blog about the three top earning jobs in tech, and what is needed to do the jobs, based on information from the Stack Overflow developer survey.
Kone, the lift (elevator) company published some nice datavis graphs showing a drop in lift use by 80% in the top 10 European cities during the initial pandemic period of February to April 2020. The graphs also show a 134%+ bounce-back for London in 2021, and 300%+ in Chicago.
This week I discovered the Financial Modelling World Cup, which hold esports events on YouTube where contestants solve financial modelling problem statements using an Excel template, complete with commentators!
The Doughnut Economics website now includes a national doughnuts explorer, allowing users to view how well (or not) their countries fare on the doughnut sustainable economic model.
An FOIA request has revealed a report from the FBI on the different types of data that can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps by U.S. law enforcement.
