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Thu. 08/05 - Vaccine APP-rehension

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As the tides trend toward requiring vaccinations for entry in more places, what is the landscape of apps and methods to verify vaccination status? Plus, meatball-scented candles from IKEA and two very different commercial space flight updates.

Sponsor:

  • Upstart, upstart.com/kottke

Links:

More than 450 airlines can now use IBM's Digital Health Pass (Quartz)
  • Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden (The Atlantic)
  • Privacy and efficacy concerns remain for New York's vaccine passport apps (NBC News)
  • IKEA Made a Swedish Meatball Scented Candle (Food and Wine)
  • ARROW WEIRD Make Your Home Smell Like Swedish Meatballs With IKEA's New HUVUDROLL Candle (Mental Floss)
  • Ikea's First Smart Air Purifier Comes Camouflaged as a Side Table (Gizmodo)
  • NASA, Boeing Continue Starliner Data Analysis (NASA) 
  • SpaceX is hiring a 'Spaceport Mixologist' to make cocktails (The Verge)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter

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