In the month I’ve been testing the Bluetran Lightning, I’ve had to charge it only once. Once. That was after about 40 miles’ worth of trips (at various sub–30-mph speeds). This electric kick scooter never failed going up steep hills, its hydraulic brakes are fantastic, and its suspension feels like a magic carpet ride. It’s …
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By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more or less in the same way or at the same time,” said Eve Marder, a neuroscientist at Brandeis University widely recognized for her pioneering studies on neuromodulators in the late 1980s. “You’re basically creating either …
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Karl, a PhD and lecturer at MIT, gave birth to both of his children—and despite being the one with the baby bump, he was routinely asked to wait outside while the nurses attended to his (not pregnant) wife. People were unable, he says, to see both a man and a pregnant body; as a result, …
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Today’s technology landscape is dominated by a small cadre of massive corporations with the likes of Meta, Amazon and Google snapping up fledgling startups before they can grow into potential competitors, ignoring labor laws that don’t suit their immediate needs, and generally operating like the dystopian corpro-villains Johnny Mnemonic warned us about. Traditionally, state regulation …
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Michelob Ultra and ESPN have decided to use AI to answer an enduring question: what would happen if tennis legend John McEnroe played against himself? An upcoming ESPN+ special entitled “McEnroe vs. McEnroe” will feature the 63-year-old star, who retired from singles competition in 1992, playing against a complicated, AI-trained version of himself. According to …
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Among the biggest questions on people’s mind since Elon Musk made his bid to buy Twitter is how the service might change under his ownership. We’re still a long way off from the deal becoming official, but Musk nonetheless has had to pitch investors on his vision for the company to get the funding he …
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Microsoft has open sourced the code for the 27-year-old program 3D Movie Maker — and it’s all thanks to someone who asked on Twitter. Foone, whose Twitter profile says they’re a “hardware and software necromancer,” asked the tech giant for the source code to the program so they could expand and extend it. Microsoft doesn’t …
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Mining Capital Coin CEO and founder Luiz Capuci Jr. was — in an indictment unsealed yesterday — accused by the DOJ of allegedly running a $62 million global investment fraud scheme. He’s the latest of several crypto company heads who have recently been similarly charged. Through his company, Capuci convinced investors to purchase “Mining Packages,” …
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Nadeem Sarwar / SlashGear Whether or not you change phones frequently or stick to your trusty device for a few good years, the choice of default apps usually remains the same. And it’s perfectly fine. My friends give me weird looks when they notice my preference for odd applications like Opera for web browsing, but …
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