Can I plant trees anywhere and which type is best?

A warning from climate change experts that the UK needs to quickly plant a lot more trees has prompted readers to ask how they can help. At best we need to more than double the amount of trees we plant to achieve our carbon reduction targets, experts have said. Here are some of the things our readers wanted to know about tree planting.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49164316?source=Snapzu

EA Doesn't Believe You'd Play Their Games On Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch has sold more than 36.87 million units worldwide, but, given that success, Electronic Arts hasn’t thrown their development talent behind the portable home console.
Read more: https://www.nintendo-insider.com/ea-doesnt-believe-youd-play-their-games-on-nintendo-switch/?source=Snapzu

How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not

Misplacing your car keys is worrisome, but it’s nothing like the free-fall panic of losing your phone. Hollywood could make a horror movie about somebody just looking for their iPhone XR and going slowly insane. The telephone began to pervade our lives at the end of the 19th century, and then — as you can see in these photos from The New York Times’s archives — it became our lives. Cellphones were a significant inflection point.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/how-phones-made-the-world-your-office-like-it-or-not.html?source=Snapzu

New Campaign Demands End to Amazon's Partnerships with Police

Fight for the Future, an activist group focused on promoting civil liberties in digital spaces, launched a campaign today to help people demand that their local governments and police departments to stop partnerships with Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance company.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzwpz/new-campaign-demands-end-to-amazons-partnerships-with-police?source=Snapzu

Apple Maps in iOS 13: Sights Set on Google

Apple’s path to a home-brewed mapping solution has been long and perilous, but it’s almost arrived.
Read more: https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-maps-in-ios-13-sights-set-on-google/?source=Snapzu

NASA agrees to work with SpaceX on orbital refueling technology

On Tuesday afternoon, NASA announced 19 new partnerships with 10 US companies to help bring more cutting-edge technologies closer to production use in spaceflight. There were a lot of useful engineering ideas here, such as precision landing systems and robotic plant farms, but perhaps the most intriguing one involved the rocket company SpaceX and two of NASA's field centers—the Glenn Research Center in Ohio and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/nasa-agrees-to-work-with-spacex-on-orbital-refueling-technology/?source=Snapzu

Your heartburn drugs may be giving you allergies, study suggests

When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/health/heartburn-drugs-allergies-study/index.html?source=Snapzu