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5 things we learned

Covid restrictions are winding down across Europe. Norway, Denmark and Sweden are following the U.K. in dropping all restrictions, as countries learn to “live with the virus”. Summer 2022, here we come.

You can finally unlock your iPhone with your mask on. Just in time for mask restrictions ending, Apple is finally releasing the one feature we’ve been waiting for since March 2020. Better later than never?

Mark Zuckerberg lost almost $30 billion in one day. Meta, the clunkily-named parent company of Facebook, saw its shares tumble almost 20% after reporting falling profits and a decline in daily users for the first time in its history. And you thought you had a rough January?

Spain is launching a digital nomad visa, just in time for summer. Why not take your next Zoom meeting from a beautiful coastal village? Spain’s new ‘Start Up’ act seeks to attract ‘techpats’, offering them an easy route to stay for 6 - 12 months.

A new ‘Tesla-busting battery’ could be the ‘Holy Grail’ for electric flight. Researchers in Japan revealed an exciting new battery technology that could offer double the energy density of the world’s leading battery found in Tesla’s Model 3. This breakthrough is regarded as a tipping point for making electric aircraft a reality.

The good

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are redefining philanthropy. The two billionaire divorcees are backing a more ‘hands-off’ approach to donations, trusting charities and organisations to define their own priorities.

The bad

2022 will be ‘The Summer of Noise Complaints’. With young people flooding back into city centers, our columnist predicts noisy, long summer nights followed by draconian restrictions from local lawmakers. Could there be a better way? 

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Do this

New York’s biggest bike tour is back. 32,000 cyclists are taking to the streets of New York once again. But if joining the ride sounds too tire-some, why not join thousands of street-spectators witnessing the city-spectacle. Sunday 1st of May, from $110.

Watch

Wind can power the Earth. The use of wind turbines to produce electricity has grown exponentially over the last two decades. Watch Denmark’s climate minister lay out his vision for a fossil-free future by harnessing wind energy. TED, available to watch worldwide.

Listen

The cost of 15-minute grocery delivery. Start-ups offering fast grocery delivery across the US are battling for their share of the pie. But hefty venture capital funding, record-speed delivery times, and endless customer discounts come at a cost. Gimlet Media, free to listen worldwide.

Read

A taste for poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon’s bedroom - Dr. Neil Bradbury blends medical science, history, and crime to reveal the effects of 11 notorious poisons. St. Martin's Press, from $19.00. 

Taste

An elite food market in Manhattan. Celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is opening a 53,000 square food market on the site of one of his former favourites - the Fulton fish market, hoping to recreate the same sense of food discovery that he once felt there.

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