The coronavirus pandemic has forced mobility leaders to do the previously unthinkable and discourage their citizens from using mass transit. The next step – re-opening transport networks – looks set to be harder still. This issue was highlighted during two recent Cities Today Institute roundtables attended by city and transport leaders from Europe and North America. As Laura Shoaf, Managing Director, Transport for West Midlands, put it: “For somebody who runs a public transport authority and has spent my entire life working in [this field] – to push out communications asking people not to take public transport has pained me beyond belief....

Launching on Indiegogo today, the cooler is essentially a portable fridge with a battery pack that can keep your food cool for up to five days — or longer, if you opt for the solar panel and/or an additional swappable battery. The company notes that if you do want to use ice, then your food can remain cool for up to 14 days on a charge. Even without a charge, Furrion claims its construction allows ice to remain frozen for up to 10 days, although this will of course depend on the ambient temperature....

For some context, Apple announced iOS 14 at WWDC in June and, shortly afterwards, made the beta available to developers. This included the iOS clipboard privacy feature. What this does is alert the user when an app tries to copy clipboard information. Something, it turns out, apps appear to do constantly. TikTok was the first of these to cause a stir: — Jeremy Burge (@jeremyburge) June 24, 2020 The company — owned by the Chinese firm, Bytedance — fixed this snooping in an update on June 27, three days after it was first brought to the public’s attention....

The metaverse is an immersive virtual reality version of the internet where people can interact with digital objects and digital representations of themselves and others, and can move more or less freely from one virtual environment to another. It can also involve augmented reality, a blending of virtual and physical realities, both by representing people and objects from the physical world in the virtual and conversely by bringing the virtual into people’s perceptions of physical spaces....

[Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] The video notes that the iPhone 13 will have a 120Hz LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) display which will show you information such as time, battery level, and weather in the always-on mode. Android phones have been doing this for a while, and Apple also did this with its Apple Watch 5 series. Because of OLED displays on iPhones, Apple could activate certain pixels while keeping the rest of the screen dimmed to display information....

I’m not even going to touch the whole “what’s a Mustang badge doing on a crossover SUV” conversation. — joe (@joewaldo4) January 6, 2020 Bringing back iconic names is a bit on trend at the moment, Ford isn’t alone in reviving a defunct name and reinventing it with more environmentally sound drivetrains. GMC is also bringing the Hummer name out of retirement and slapping it on the grille of an all-electric pickup truck....

It’s official — the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a hit. At least, if you go by the announcements following Samsung’s global boutique style limited rollout for the market’s most affordable folding phone model in decades. In fact, the ultra cool device capable of folding up even smaller than your traditional smartphone is sold out in virtually half the world with about 20 of the more than 40 countries where the device has debuted reporting no stock on hand, including the U....

Johnson’s story and significant contributions to the US space program, along with those of Dorothy Vaughan (a computer scientist) and Mary Jackson (an engineer), were brought to widespread public attention by the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and film of the same name. I have rarely watched a film that has moved me as much as Hidden Figures did when I first saw it. And I have seen it at least twice since when I have led discussions about the significance of the film, drawing on my own experience of working in the space industry....

Machines aren’t smart enough to take the mental health crisis head-on. Sure, AI-powered therapy bots can be very effective when it comes to augmenting human counseling sessions or reinforcing cognitive behavioral therapy instructions. But, when it comes to mental health crises, there’s no substitute for a qualified, empathetic human. That’s exactly why The Trevor Project was established. It’s core products include phone, text, and chat support for queer youth in crisis....

Previous Yamaha e-bikes in the US Market were Class 1 bikes, limited to 20 mph like most e-bikes. While that’s good enough for many users, some feel safer being able to keep up with faster traffic, and riders with longer commutes want to arrive at their destinations more quickly. Of course, others just have the need for speed. The bicycle is certainly built for speed. It has an aggressive geometry and omits fenders, racks, or a kickstand – though there are mounting points should you want to install them later, and front light is included (Yamaha’s rear rack has an integrated rear light)....

Design is often a very ephemeral thing. A creator builds a website or an app or another web experience based on an almost instinctual feel for what looks good, what works well, and what they think users will enjoy and embrace. While that innate design sense is probably what got them started in web development in the first place, they undoubtedly refined that feeling over the years through some hard-won practical experience....

Malaysians came in the runner-up spot with an average 1,300 photos stored on their phones, followed by the Swiss with 1,237. South Africa and Austria completed the top five, with 1,190 and 1,172 images respectively. By contrast, Ukrainians, Russians, and Vietnamese users saved the fewest images on their phones, with an average of 465, 442, and 397 pics respectively. Check out the full chart: The data further indicates that women store 24 percent more photos than men....

Jukebox was trained on massive datasets of music across nearly every genre so that it can create completely fresh songs that, in many cases, sound very much like the artist(s) it was trained on. Much like other networks learn to transfer the style of a painting or other artwork from one image to another, Jukebox figures out how to imitate the style and genre of music. It also attempts to recreate the lyrical and singing style of specific singers....

For over 25 years, the PDF has basically been the only document format that gets universal approval. Since a PDF retains all its original formatting no matter how you view it, it’s the ultimate in fuss-free sharing. Unless you have to edit it, that is. Because unless you have the original file, changing text, adding images or even just signing a PDF isn’t always so simple. Thankfully, that all gets loads easier with the aid of an app like the award-winning PDF Expert, an indispensable tool now just $29....

An investigation by Pasco County Sherriff’s Deputies revealed how inmates at the county jail were having money deposited into their commissary accounts using stolen credit cards. “These identities that were compromised by an unknown mean [sic], were purchased via the dark web through Bitcoin,” said Detective Anthony Cardillo. “The inmates were then asking for their commissary accounts to be released to the outside […] and the funds were being released to an unknown individual,” he added....

However, this new video created by computer artist and animator Glenn Marshall uses AI to narrate and create visualizations for poems. It’s based on the poem ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, written by an English 19th-century writer Christina Rossetti. [Read: This AI-powered gadget could completely disrupt the ridiculous hearing aid market] The visualizations are striking in a slightly disturbing way. They are not the most sophisticated animations, but rather low-res GIFs....

In August, a group of computer scientists from the University of Copenhagen and other universities used machine learning to analyze 3.5 million books, published between 1900 to 2008, to find out whether the language used to describe men and women differed — spoiler alert: it did. It found that “beautiful,” “gorgeous,” and “sexy” were the three most frequent adjectives used to describe women in literature. However, the most commonly used adjectives to describe men were “righteous,” “rational,” and “brave....

Keyring is launching its Chrome extension that helps you share subscriptions, such as Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, with friends. You can share six subscriptions with three people for free or pay $5 a month to share an unlimited number of subscriptions with five folks. If you think you’ve heard about something like this before, you’re right. DoNotPay launched a similar extension last year....

While the wooden ruler is best remembered as the stereotypical corporal punishment weapon of choice for catholic school nuns, its place in 2021 society is quickly fading into the rearview mirror of history. Who still uses a foot-long piece of wood to measure off inches, centimeters, and other short increments of distance these days? In the coming years, we’ll probably be able to instantly assess those types of measurements right through enhancements like the ocular implants in our eyeballs....

There are other tools like this for creating games, but Google’s Area 120 – the company’s internal incubator for employees’ big ideas – says this one is designed to feel like you’re playing a game while making new ones. Game Builder has actually been around since last November, so there are a bunch of tutorials available on YouTube to guide you (in addition to the ones in the tool itself)....