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Intel stock fell nearly 14% in the 30 days preceding October 28, during which time the total value of the company’s shorts fell by nearly $1.35 billion, which is the biggest decrease of any top shorted stocks on the market. Short sellers bet that a company’s share price will fall, as opposed to going “long” on a stock believed to one day increase in value. Short sellers borrow shares to immediately sell when the price is high, re-buy the stock when the price is low, and pocket the difference after returning the shares to their broker (a move known as “closing a short....

London has released its Streetspace program, outlining how it will divert millions of journeys from public transport once the lockdown eases, with capacity expected to be just a fifth of pre-crisis levels. Transport experts warn that if even a fraction of journeys that would have been made by public transport are taken by car, the city risks “grinding to a halt,” with air quality worsening and safety risks increasing. The Streetspace plan outlines rapid street transformations to encourage more people to cycle and walk....

To prepare for this process, it’s in your startup’s best interest to wait until the timing is right and prepare accordingly. In a perfect world, a symbiotic relationship will occur and startups will find the perfect VC that will fit their needs, while providing value back. Below are five tips that you can follow to make sure you have a solid foundation built prior to reaching out to VCs:...

Let’s take a closer look at the difference between web design and web development: Web Design You can think of web designers as experts who transform a story or idea into an attractive and visually appealing design and use the layout of the website to build a good user experience throughout the website. Their job is to design the feel and look of the website. Just like an architect would come up with a plan for a house before building it, a web designer models the layout of a website before leaving the developing part to the web developer....

The new time was set on Thursday by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit focused on global security issues. While the time hasn’t changed, the prognosis remains bleak. “Steady is not good news: in fact, it reflects the judgment of the board that we are stuck at a perilous moment,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at the Bulletin. The non-profit warned that arms races, the climate crisis, and COVID-19 have left us no more time to waste....

Black holes are what’s left after large stars die and their cores collapse. They are incredibly dense, with gravity so strong that nothing can move fast enough to escape them, including light. Astronomers are keen to study black holes because they can tell us a lot about the ways that stars die. By measuring the masses of black holes, we can learn about what was going on in stars’ final moments, when their cores were collapsing and their outer layers were being expelled....

After Louisiana and Georgia recently joined the ranks of states passing so-called “heartbeat bills” — legislative bans and restrictions on safe abortion for women housing an embryo after approximately six weeks — TelAbortion could provide the answer, albeit an answer shrouded in dubious legality. A highly anticipated study, called “TelAbortion,” published this week in the journal Contraception offers reason for optimism in telemedicine as a safe alternative to endangered abortion clinics everywhere....

Earlier this week, Swiss company Micro Mobility Systems debuted its Microlino 2.0 to the public for the first time, The Verge writes. [Read: Renault’s concept EV cam make itself bigger to fit more batteries] The Microlino 2.0 is a fully electric reimagining of the Isetta that was built by the likes of BMW and many others in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many will know it as “the bubble car,” because well, it looks like a bubble on wheels....

I just walked – past two days in London between multiple locations. No bus. No tube. No Uber. No bike. Thanks to a major new innovative collaboration between Google Maps and my new desert boots – called ‘Walking as a Service.’ It was a bit of fun. I’d coined a new phrase to have a dig at MaaS which was getting all the attention and yet not giving any attention to walking....

According to a trackside sleuth who goes by The Kilowatts on Twitter, Lucid was putting its tri-motor powertrain through its paces, and appeared to post a claimed 1 minute 33 seconds lap time at Laguna Seca racetrack in California. Scroll down for trackside footage of the Air in action. Big disclaimer: it’s not clear how Lucid’s lap time was recorded, it could have been timed using track hardware or hand timed, which means we should consider this time unofficial and take it with a pinch of salt even if it does sound somewhat realistic....

Sometimes, however, you just want to kick back and read some stuff that just blows your mind. That’s why, from time to time, we look outside the box for stories that truly exemplify the wonder and amazement that comes with pursuing the future of technology. This collection isn’t meant to describe the biggest, most impactful events in the AI world from 2021. Instead, it’s a sort of “editor’s choice” of our coolest, slickest, and most wow-inducing pieces....

Loads of fans were immediately taken with Padmates’ PaMu Scroll Wireless Earbuds and Case offering, so taken that they actually pledged over $3 million in Indiegogo funding to get them made. Now, they’re available from TNW Deals — and right now, they’re over 50 percent off, just $69.99 with this limited time offer. The quality construction is probably the first thing that jumps out about these top-tier earbuds. Engineered for ergonomic comfort, these Bluetooth 5....

A wide array of metrics are being used to compute a company’s true or intrinsic value, such as revenue, expenses, net income, profit margin, dividend, debt, and equity. Still, all of them are the result of a company’s efforts. If you drill down to the core, a company thrives on three things: a product or service, a team, and its so-called ‘moat’ (competitive advantages). We’ve decided to drill down on the human factor and study which Nasdaq- and NYSE-listed tech companies’ employees drive the most revenue in a year, thus being the most valuable human capital in this sector....

But these are major cities. Full of opportunity, culture, and ambition, they can also be exhausting, not to mention expensive, places to live and work. This is why so many tech professionals are now looking to leave the big super-urban tech hubs for smaller, more up and coming tech cities that offer the perfect mix of progression and personal balance. Below, we’re taking a look at three places to explore....

Bogotá, Paris, Hong Kong, and London are ranked among the best cities in the world for key walkability indicators in a new report from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Pedestrians First includes practical tools that allow urban planners and city officials to assess the inclusivity of their cities’ transport systems as well as the walkability of their neighborhoods and streets. It also provides walkability data for almost 1,000 metropolitan areas worldwide....

We spoke with four cohorts from this year’s X-Europe smart cities accelerator program to find out more about how tech can be used to tackle both new and old security threats. Faster response times to violent crime Finding new ways to tackle violent crime is one of the biggest issues on every government and municipalities’ agenda. Having formerly developed solutions for the military, Joe Levy, CEO of 1702ai explained what the problem is: 1702ai detects guns indoors and outdoors using ready installed security cameras....

For young artists, the blank canvas can often be pretty terrifying. All that emptiness and possibility can create anxiety, but with some experience and tradecraft, those young artists become seasoned creators who can see the opportunity in that untouched void. That kind of experience comes with a firm command of the tools at their disposal, and no set of digital artistic tools offer more possibility than those in the industry-leading Adobe Creative Cloud....

[Read: These tech trends defined 2020 so far, according to 5 founders] The tool is super customizable with options for deleting tweets, likes, and retweets up to specified days in the past. You can also filter out tweets that have had a high engagement. Here’s how you can use it: Go to the Semiphemeral website through your desktop browser. Log in to your Twitter account and wait for your tweets to load....

Meet the Fresco XL Let’s start with the most impressive spec: the Fresco XL is slated to come with a single charge range of 1,000km. That’s enough to get you from Amsterdam to Paris — and back. According to the company, this has been made possible thanks to the vehicle’s aerodynamic trims and extra-large battery pack. Hence the car’s name, I guess. What exactly does an extra-large battery pack mean, you ask?...

Just enter some keywords into the search bar and the system will analyze Google’s top-performing content on the subject. It then runs the data through OpenAI’s vaunted GPT-3 text generator to produce a new idea. The tool is targeted at content marketers on the hunt for blog posts that will rank highly on Google search. But I tested whether it could also help this humble hack to overcome his writer’s block....