“And to be clear: I also find policies such as separating families and detaining children wrong and contrary to the best interests of our country.” Also Barry Crist, in the same email. It isn’t everyday you’ll find an executive businessperson in a leadership position willing to admit to the general public that they believe it’s inappropriate to examine the moral implications of the work they choose to do. But there you have it....

The idea is appealing on paper for India’s mobile-first audience: you can hang out in your own ‘Home’ to watch videos with friends and chat simultaneously, or go to ‘Big Screen’ to watch videos with other users and make new friends. The company is starting with a limited rollout of the feature today through a new tab in the app. Currently, I can only invite one friend to my home island and we can watch YouTube videos together while chatting over text or voice....

Yesterday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) removed certain safety designations for vehicles produced after April 27. The safety body does not give its “check mark” for forward collision warning, lane departure warning, crash imminent braking and dynamic brake support, Reuters reports. In other words, the NHTSA no longer recognizes these Tesla vehicles as being up to its safety standards, now that radar has been removed. It’s worth noting that the NHTSA only gives its approved check mark to vehicles that it’s tested....

“Important note about Tesla Battery Day unveil tomorrow,” tweeted late Tuesday. “This affects long-term production, especially Semi, Cybertruck & Roadster, but what we announce will not reach serious high-volume production until 2022.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 22, 2020 Musk’s energy in these tweets noticeably contrasts the hypeman vibe featured in the company’s January earnings call, when the enigmatic billionaire reportedly urged the public to “wait until Battery Day” to have their minds “blown....

If you’re a Bootcamp student, learning the basics that make code work, how long will it take for you to become a software programming master? In his best-selling book Outliers (2008), Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell famously brought forward the 10,000-Hour Rule — a rule of thumb to define how much time anyone should practice before becoming an expert, and a successful person, in any given field. According to Gladwell’s reasoning, The Beatles became a primed-for-success live band because of their stint in Hamburg in the early sixties, where they amassed around ten thousand hours of live playing by performing loud songs in the city’s nightclub circuit....

Traditional crypto mining is notoriously resource-intensive with the annual carbon footprint of mining Bitcoin equivalent to that of countries like Argentina and Norway. But rest assured, companies are hard at work finding creative ways to mine crypto sustainably. Further, because the creativity of people knows no bounds, it’s not just computers they have been mining crypto with. Oh, not at all. DIY hackers are turning all kinds of hardware into crypto mining machines and companies are finding ways to capture the energy generated in the process of crypto mining for other purposes....

I briefly covered both of these issues in the announcement piece yesterday. I always expected the AirPods Max to be pricey, maybe not this pricey, but that didn’t shock me too much. The AirPods Max case did though. And, since writing the article, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about them. Let’s talk about why. [Read: How to choose the best robotic vacuum for your home] I’ve been using over-ear headphones daily for around 16 years now, and every single pair I’ve used have come with a case that covers their entirety....

Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’re probably considering selling your app to someone else, hopefully for large sums of money. Or at least you’re thinking about it but you’re not sure if you want to let your baby go. Either way, selling an app is literally as simple as putting a listing up and watching the bids grow. However, there are a few things to take into consideration before you sell your app....

But with an ever-increasing number of options in the market, it can be hard to sift through what’s actually good and what’s junk. Fret no more, young cycling padawan: this guide offers our selections of some of our favorite ebikes to help you choose your ride. Before we get started… Because people can have vastly different budgets, we’ve tried to keep a mix of affordable (by ebike standards) and premium options....

Anyway, it’s tough to make external battery packs stand out, so I always appreciate it when I see someone putting in a little bit of effort — and this is where the Buffalito from BuffaloGrid bursts into the room. This power bank has two stand-out features beyond just, you know, charging your phone. The first is that it’s also a flashlight. And the second is that for every two sold, the company will donate one to a person in the developing world (defined here as rural India or sub-Saharan Africa)....

On July 20, 1969, the first human landed on the moon. Fifty years later we are in desperate need for another “moonshot” to tackle some of the pressing and overwhelmingly big issues of our time — from the climate crisis to the decline of democracy to the upheavals to our labor markets and societies caused by the rise of exponential digital technology — especially Artificial Intelligence (AI). For the past decade, we put our faith in technology as the ultimate problem-solver, and any kind of innovation was tied to technological advances....

According to figures reported by EV Sales Blog, the Dutch plug-in vehicle market grew by 75% in August, that is compared to the same month last year. [Read: Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked] What’s more striking, though, is that this boom is largely bolstered by interest in that often overlooked middle ground between battery EVs and combustion engine vehicles, the plug-in hybrid (PHEV). The PHEV category did the lion’s share of the work last month, with their sales increasing by 382% over August 2019....

The video shows the PS5 broken down piece-by-piece by Yasuhiro Ootori, the VP of the Mechanical Design Department. To start, this white tower of Orthanc-looking thing is over 15 inches tall when mounted on its vertical stand. That’s several inches taller than the PS4 Pro when it’s also vertical. It’s a tall drink of water. However, this seems to be in service of keeping the console cool. Underneath the white siding is a 120mm x 45mm cooling fan that draws air in on both sides, and an exhaust port that spans almost the whole back of the console....

The saddle is made by Seatylock, whose namesake is a seat that, well, doubles as lock. Beneath that seat is a folding lock that made it easy to secure your bike and saddle from thieves at the same time. The SeatyGo is basically the same concept sans the lock portion, allowing you to take your saddle with you and protect it from the weather and thieves alike. It uses standard bike saddle rails that should fist almost every bike out there, but a quick-release mechanism makes it easy to take the actual seat with you while the rails remain attached to your seatpost....

As of July, women earned 84 cents for every dollar a man earned. It is a discrepancy that has garnered significant attention from scholars, the media and sex discrimination lawsuits. But this figure only tells part of the story regarding gender pay inequality. As a professor of business management, I have long studied compensation and inequality and know that base pay is only one way that women are disadvantaged in the workplace....

Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar power is one of the technologies to feature in the government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. It has been identified as a potential solution, alongside others, to enable the UK to achieve net-zero by 2050. But how would a solar power station in space work? What are the advantages and drawbacks to this technology? Space-based solar power involves collecting solar energy in space and transferring it to Earth....

According to the automaker, the problem is caused by a malfunction in the wheels’ hub bolts: Naturally, Toyota’s urging the affected owners not to use their vehicles until the investigation is complete. The recall encompasses 2,700 bZ4X models in total: 2,200 destined for Europe, 260 for the US, 110 for Japan, and 10 for Canada. And it doesn’t stop there. Subaru is also recalling 2,600 Solterra EVs — its very first electric vehicle, jointly developed with Toyota — for the same reason....

300,000 people are on Superhuman’s waitlist, while 95,000 requested a Hey invite before it launched—both in pursuit of a more productive email experience. Enough people paid Roam Research from $15/month to $500 for 5 years that they hit $1 million in ARR only 6 weeks after launching paid plans. Give people a new productivity tool, and they’ll show up in droves. And woe betides if you take it away. There were more Hacker News comments about Microsoft shutting down Wunderlist than about any other thing the to-do list app had ever done....

Over The Bridge, a Canada-based non-profit that helps musicians with mental health, has started a new AI-powered project called Lost Tapes of the 27 Club. The organization is using machine learning to break down songs of artists who died at 27, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Kobain — and compose original tunes based on their musical stylings. Check out this well-composed Niravana tribute track called ‘Drowned in the Sun....

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