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Round-up: Transform your iOS Home Screen with these icon packs inspired by the 1984 Macintosh

March 16, 2021
Custom icon packs for iOS and iPadOS have become super popular with the changes made to Shortcuts in iOS 14. Today, we’ve got a round-up of some beautiful iOS icon packs inspired by the 1984 Macintosh and the original version of macOS. All of these packs have a minimalistic black and white color scheme. Modern icons and logos have been reimagined in pixel art. Some packs even include widgets.
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EGEB: Toledo, Ohio, connects a solar farm with neighborhood reinvestment

March 16, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Toledo, Ohio’s 21,000-solar-panel farm serves both manufacturing and surrounding communities. A Belgian wind farm will supply electricity to cargo handlers International Car Operators at Zeebrugge. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price…
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These researchers in Switzerland can get electricity from wood

March 16, 2021
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have chemically modified wood and made it more compressible, turning it into a mini-​generator. When compressed, it generates an electrical voltage. Such wood could serve as a biosensor or as a building material that harvests energy. Ingo Burgert and his team at public research university ETH Zurich and Swiss federal laboratory Empa have proven that wood is…
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Here’s a first look at a fingerprint-magnet finish coming to OnePlus 9 Pro [Gallery]

March 16, 2021
The OnePlus 9 Pro is set to make its debut in just over a week, and the company’s hype train is in full effect with teasers and, now, just a dump of images showing off the OnePlus 9 Pro in a mirror finish option called “Morning Mist.” In a forum post this afternoon, OnePlus revealed a gallery of images that show the OnePlus 9 Pro in a new colorway. This new option, based on silver, is…
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