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But there’s one thing holding me back from getting totally on the electrified, uh, bike: Price. The VanMoof and Cowboy will set you back around $3,800 and $2,200 respectively. Which, and let’s be honest here, is a lot of money. You can get a solid second hand car for that. Anyway, it’s this aspect of e-bikes where the Analog Motion AM1 e-bike wants to stand out. This vehicle sells for £999 ($1,295 at the time of writing) — effectively half the price of the other two-wheelers....

However, Apple’s upcoming iOS 14.5 update is shaping up to be one of the most important version updates in recent times. The company will roll it out by the end of this month, but let’s take a look at some exciting features that people have already noticed in the beta version. Face ID will work with masks Aren’t you jumping with joy at the thought of this? If not, you should....

Tunnels under the city of Las Vegas — The Boring Company (@boringcompany) October 20, 2021 This week The Boring Company won approval from local officials to build a 51 station network of vehicle tunnels under the city of Las Vegas. Spanning 46km (29 miles) system will allow passengers to travel by tunnel between casinos, the new football stadium, the Las Vegas Convention Center, and McCarran International Airport. In May 2019, the company landed a $48....

Almost a year after many said an unexpected goodbye to their offices at work, there are a lot of those workers still trying to get their day to day productivity back to its former glory. Working from a desk at home, even with some of the extra adjustments made in the meantime, don’t exactly make up for everything you don’t get from being in the office every day. Like that sweet double monitor setup, right?...

Those beliefs are now being challenged by a heretic: cultivated meat. Cultivated meat, also known as cultured meat, brings the farm to the lab. Cells are collected from an animal, grown in vitro, and then shaped into familiar forms of edible flesh. Industry advocates proffer myriad benefits — and needs. According to the UN, around 80 billion animals are slaughtered each year for meat. This livestock produces an estimated 14....

The fall of Mixer To say Microsoft’s move came as a shock to Mixer’s streamers would be to undersell it. I spent a few hours popping around Mixer channels after I heard the news and the reaction was more or less blank shock. After all, Microsoft seemed to be putting all of its weight behind Mixer. Now it not only decided to close the site apparently on a whim, but was announcing a partnership with Facebook, of all things....

Scientists have used computer simulations to try and digitally reverse-engineer the origin and evolution of our universe for decades. The best traditional methods using modern technology take minutes and produce okay results. The world’s first AI universe simulator on the other hand, produces results with far greater accuracy in just milliseconds. According to the team’s paper: This is a fancy way of saying that it not only does what its developers built it to do – simulate the evolution of the universe under different gravitational conditions – it produces accurate results for variables it wasn’t trained on....

First, the specs: 10.5″ Super AMOLED Display 6GB + 128 GB or 8GB + 128GB RAM and storage configurations Snapdragon 855 or Exynos 9610 7,040 mAh battery (15 hours battery life claimed) 8MP front camera 13MP + 5MP rear cameras Four AKG speakers with Dolby Atmos technology Optical fingerprint sensor New Bluetooth S-Pen It’s the usual spec bump here – smartphone specs stuffed into a larger frame. That’s one advantage Apple has: it’s iPad Pros are always significantly more powerful than its iPhones, allowing you to manage significantly greater workloads on its tablet....

According to NASA, the recordings were collected by a seismometer designed to capture subsurface vibrations: In the above video NASA says the sounds you’re hearing are caused by marsquakes, wind, the movement of the rover’s ‘arm,’ and friction within the seismometer – just science noises, nothing spooky. SEIS was designed to listen for marsquakes. Scientists want to study how the seismic waves of these quakes move through the planet’s interior, revealing the deep inner structure of Mars for the first time....

So, let’s talk about the viewing features. Photos now lets you break photos into three distinct groups: Days, Months, and Years. Fundamentally, these vary by the content being shown, but all have one thing in common. Across the three modes, the iOS Photos app uses machine learning to automatically hide pictures you might not be interested in and highlight your best work. In Days, for example, pictures of whiteboard scribbles and expenses receipts are buried....

If you’re ready to learn to play the guitar, you know it won’t just happen overnight. In fact, it won’t just happen, period. It’ll only happen with lots and lots and lots of hard work. Experts suggest young players practice a bare minimum of 15 minutes each day. Hub Guitar estimates that to become a competent rhythm guitar player, you’ll need to spend over 600 hours playing, or the equivalent of about 6 months of practicing around 4 hours a day....

Over the past year, electrified bicycles have come of age. It’s part of what the BBC calls, “The great bicycle boom of 2020.” Pandemic lockdowns around the world opened our eyes to how much we rely on the car, and it’s got people thinking about two wheels as a more preferable mode of transport. People are gravitating to sexy new ebikes, packed with gadgets and features, but I’m here to tell you not to forget about the simple, affordable, albeit slightly fugly ones — electric town bikes....

It shows that the digital economy is more important than ever. But while these juggernauts are absorbing most of the investment savvy people and financial media’s attention, there’s an undercurrent of tech companies that aren’t worth a trillion dollars yet. And some of those companies’ revenues are accelerating much faster than those of the tech giants. That’s because of their current size; they’re worth between $10 and $25 billion, which means they relatively have more room to grow....

Knowledge is power. If you’ve got the motivation to really dig in and learn something new, your opportunities skyrocket. Case in point — hiring managers say only about 15 percent of job applicants actually have the skills that firms want in their new hire. What that means for the opportunistic go-getter is that learning in areas like coding, mechanical engineering, and more can instantly vault you ahead of more than 8 in 10 other people chasing one of those jobs....

A coalition of civil rights groups says that retails giants including Macy’s, Ace Hardware, and Lowe’s are currently using the tech to monitor people who enter or work in their stores. The group is calling for the companies to end the practice. “Constant surveillance, tracking, and data collection infringe on our human right to privacy,” said Al Smith from The Tor Project, one of 35 organizations involved in the campaign....

Malicious emails are up 600 percent in the past two years. About 1 in 6,000 emails contain suspicious URLs — and ransomware attacks happen every 11 seconds. There’s no team member more valuable to any organization these days than a qualified, knowledgeable cybersecurity specialist. And if you have the skills to serve in that role, you can have companies auditioning for your services, not the other way around. Even if you’ve never dabbled in high tech system security, The A to Z Cyber Security and IT Certification Training Bundle ($23....

Uberduck is one of a range of tools that lets you choose a celebrity voice and then enter text for them to speak. What sets it apart from the others is it can do a pretty impressive job of replicating a rapper’s flow. You can synthesize speech into a “calm” or “intense” Tupac verse, for example, or try an Eminem “freestyle” verse or “pre-Eminem Show” flow. Uberduck’s creator says they started working on the system with the goal of creating an open-ended dialog agent: The tool blew up on TikTok after a lawsuit forced the app to swap its text-to-speech voice for a different version....

Learners never stop learning. That’s especially true in tech, where something new comes down the pipe every five minutes to make you throw out what came before and learn something entirely different…hopefully before the next big thing launches five minutes after that. The interconnectedness of web-enabled devices and DIY electronics has spawned a revolutionary Internet of Things world, where refrigerators and thermostats and door locks are all smart, and it’s never been easier to learn how to build and connect those smart components yourself....

According to the research paper — Tracking Anonymized Bluetooth Devices — detailed by Johannes K. Becker and David Starobinski, the vulnerability impacts Bluetooth devices running on Windows 10, iOS, and macOS, as well as Fitbit and Apple Watch smartwatches. The details of the research were presented yesterday at the 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden. The vulnerability allows an attacker to passively track a device by exploiting a flaw in the way Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is implemented to extract identifying tokens like the device type or other identifiable data from a manufacturer....

While all the presentations and discussions were worth watching (and I might revisit them again in the coming weeks), one, in particular, stood out for me: A talk on word representations in the brain by Christos Papadimitriou, professor of computer science at the University of Columbia. In his presentation, Papadimitriou, a recipient of the Gödel Prize and Knuth Prize, discussed how our growing understanding of information-processing mechanisms in the brain might help create algorithms that are more robust in understanding and engaging in conversations....