Praise the fitness overlords, for your sacrifices were acknowledged. Strava has reinstated support for Bluetooth heart rate monitors in its mobile app. As CyclingTips reports, users of Strava’s mobile app can now pair their bluetooth sensors with the app to view and record real time data that the app doesn’t normally gather on its own. The featue will be available to all free and premium users. Paying users will get access to some more detailed heart rate analysis, though....

A team of researchers from University College London have a different theory. They’ve recreated the primordial circumstances under which the ‘spark’ of life might have happened, and they believe it occurred in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. That’s about as different from a mud puddle as you can get. In a study published yesterday, the team demonstrated the successful creation of protocells in an alkaline sea water-like environment. In other words: they’ve shown that it’s possible for life to spontaneously evolve in craggy vents littered deep within the ocean where trapped heat would cause chemicals to swirl and react – like a soup....

Now we live in a world that is more connected than ever. 5 billion people have access to the internet. Revolutionary communication technologies like Facebook are free to use. These miracles should satiate our ancient need for community, right? Not quite. Paradoxically, loneliness is on the rise. There are many factors at play, but our increasingly virtual living has a lot to do with it. It’s often the same tools that allow people to interact anywhere at any time making them feel more alone and isolated....

For some, it appears to have provided the evidence they needed to consider switching to an electric vehicle for their next car. [Read: Study: No, electric car motors don’t adversely interfere with pacemakers] According to a survey conducted by UK company car services firm, Venson Automotive, nearly half (45%) of respondents said they would consider an EV after seeing the impact coronavirus lockdowns have had on air quality. About one in four of those surveyed said they would switch to an electric vehicle within the next five years....

However, some failures of products or technologies have been positive and lead to success. It took Thomas Edison thousands of attempts before he succeeded with his lightbulb design. Although learning from failure has been described as critical to the success of technology-based start-ups, there is little existing research that supports this claim. Strategic management scholars have described and found support for a number of organizational philosophies, behaviors, and strategies that promote business success....

The update was reported by a Tesla owner on Wednesday, who shared screenshots of the additional features on Reddit. So, what’s new? Disney+ No, simply having Netflix and YouTube on Tesla Theater wasn’t enough. What if I want to watch Star Wars comfortably in the back of my car? Of course, I could do that on my couch as well… Car Wash mode Maybe that’ll solve previous inconveniences of owners when at the car wash; neutral has been reportedly difficult to engage....

In reality, these WLTP figures can be quite far off the mark. If you’re serious about EV motoring, it pays to research what real-world range figures drivers report. Thankfully, those EV loving Norwegians have put a bunch of EVs through their paces on the open-roads, giving us an idea of how they hold up against their manufacturer quoted WLTP ranges. Earlier today, Norway’s automobile association (NAF) released the results of its latest summer range test....

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020 Tesla stock opened at $755 on Friday morning, and by 11:20 ET had suddenly fallen by more than 8%. Musk tweeted his thoughts on $TSLA’s value just nine minutes earlier. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double] The electric vehicle maker surprised Wall Street on Thursday by posting a first-quarter profit despite the wider economic slowdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic....

With an angular design that would make Christopher Nolan’s Batmobile jealous, the Cybertruck is built to be tough, with “ultra-hard” cold-rolled steel and extra-tough armor glass. Tesla made a point of the toughness, and demonstrated hitting the truck with a sledgehammer and shooting it with a gun (the latter, thankfully not on stage). The truck also includes an integrated tonneau cover that’s strong enough to stand on, 100 cubic feet of exterior cargo capacity, and adjustable suspension....

This impressive user base is complemented by even more impressive results for the Chinese brand. Q4 of 2019 saw the short-video application’s in-app purchase revenue soar by 310% YoY – bringing its in-app revenue streams to over $50 million for the quarter. Some estimates have even put this figure as high as $87 million. With these numbers, it’s no wonder that the platform is, and will continue, forcing the tech industry to sit up and pay attention....

Manufacturers are trying to strip away anything that might stand in the way of the largest possible slab of screen. There is also growing demand for thinner phones with diminishing bezels (the area surrounding a screen). This trend has now culminated in the latest innovation in smartphone design, the foldable screen phone. These devices sport thin OLED self-illuminating screens that can be folded in half. The newest release is the Samsung Galaxy Z fold 2 – a device that is almost three-quarters screen and has extravagant overtones rivaled only by a hefty A$2,999 price tag....

But those who keep up to date with new technological advancements will be rewarded with new tools to experiment, play, and, of course, earn more clients and revenue. One industry which has experienced a major tech boom is engineering and construction. The ‘Digital Engineering’ revolution is offering new opportunities to those willing to adopt new technologies and upskill. With a long history of battling the sea with innovation in hydraulic engineering, the Netherlands has naturally fostered a growing number of engineering and construction corporates, agencies, startups, and scaleups who are now taking the lead in the digital engineering space....

Here at Neural, that means recounting our favorite stories from the past 12 months. There was a lot of mind-blowing news in the world of tech in 2022. From Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter to former Google engineer Blake Lemoine declaring that he’d met a sentient AI, it was a year to remember. But, rather than rehash months-old news, we wanted to take this opportunity to share our most mind-blowing and fascinating stories from the year....

Slam your peepers on this badboy: Look familiar? That’s not too much of a surprise, because it’s reminiscent of the current PS4 logo. Truly, friends, we’re witnessing a breathtaking evolution of design. Jony Ive is currently running the Guggenheim in celebration. Now, to be completely fair to Sony here, the company has kept its logo pretty similar over the course of its console’s life. The PS2 logo looked like this: And while the PS3 was launched with this Spider-Man logo:...

As for the venue, Offspring will be performing inside World of Tanks. That’s right, the free-to-play mobile World War 2 war machine game. It wouldn’t be my game of choice were I a punk band — but come to think of it, I can’t come up with a hypothetical alternative, so who am I to judge? I have the feeling the hundreds of millions in revenue WoT rakes in on the average year might be too tempting for me to pass up too....

This spike in temperature, despite the increased distance from the Sun’s main energy source, has been observed in most stars and represents a fundamental puzzle that astrophysicists have mulled over for decades. In 1942, the Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén proposed an explanation. He theorized that magnetized waves of plasma could carry huge amounts of energy along the Sun’s magnetic field from its interior to the corona, bypassing the photosphere before exploding with heat in the Sun’s upper atmosphere....

Breakage or interruption to this critical infrastructure can have catastrophic local, regional and even global consequences. This is exactly what has happened in Tonga following Saturday’s volcano-tsunami disaster. But this isn’t the first time a natural disaster has cut off critical submarine cables, and it won’t be the last. The video below shows the incredible spread of submarine cables around the planet – with more than 885,000 kilometres of cable laid down since 1989....

Researchers from Northwestern University, Illinois, say that the US could save as much as $70 billion if 75% of the vehicles on the road were electric vehicles, Intelligent Transport reports. If just 25% of vehicles could be replaced with EVs, the country could save around $17 billion. [Read: The UK takes its first step towards regulating autonomous vehicle tech] To come up with these figures, researchers modelled what would happen if people switched to EVs using climate change data, emissions data, and public health data....

Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many players: collectors, aggregators, marketplaces, and location intelligence firms, all of which boast about the scale and precision of the data that they’ve amassed. Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1....

No device is an island. At its most independent, most devices are more like a peninsula, appearing to be surrounded by water and out on their own, but actually, it stretches back to a solid motherland foundation of support and accessories. While Apple devices can happily plug away on their own for a while, eventually your device is going to need some helpful extras to live its very best Apple life....