Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple rolled out the iOS 14.5 update last night, and the new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature is probably one of the most-talked-about privacy updates for the iPhone. This new feature will force apps to ask for your permission if they want to track... Read more ›
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KTM-owned motorcycle marque Husqvarna, known for its street and motocross and machines, is taking a stab at electric bikes at last. The 118-year-old Swedish company just unveiled its E-Pilen concept motorcycle, and it’s quite a looker. Hit the play button above to get a glimpse of some of the details on the bike. The sharp styling is reminiscent of the rest of Husqvarna’s line of street motorcycles, from the powerful... Read more ›
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has published the findings of a study on active travel in the city, with data... Read more ›
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Tesla zoomed past analyst expectations in its quarterly results thanks to record-breaking car sales and Bitcoin trading. The company posted its earnings last night that noted $10.4 billion in revenue for Q1 2020 — matching the analyst expectations. Despite the global chip shortage, Tesla delivered a record-breaking 184,877 cars in the quarter, beating the mark of 180,570 set in Q4 2020. This number was also much higher than the analyst... Read more ›
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen keyboards these days, it can be more laborious than using a desktop with a full-sized physical keyboard — especially if you need to format your text and enter special characters. I’ve got... Read more ›
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The more I test ebikes, the more I realize how much it matters to me that the ride a normal bike. Not because I’m an avid cyclist — I hadn’t ridden a normal bike in years before I started testing ebikes — but because a smooth, responsive ride is just more engaging. Unfortunately, some of my favorite bikes in this regard also tend to be weaker on power delivery. I... Read more ›
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Sony’s AI division recently published a patent for an AI system that learns to mimic a player’s style. Give a person a video game and they’ll play it, teach an AI to play it for them and… what’s the point? Actually, there might be something to the idea. But it’s probably not what Sony intends to do. Per the patent: The method includes generating a user game play profile of... Read more ›
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This article was written by Choose Paris Region on The Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professionals by signing up for the Urban Mobility Weekly newsletter. Read the original article here and follow them on Linkedin and Twitter. Aiming for... Read more ›
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Is there anything Elon Musk can’t do? The modern-day Renaissance man has already set his sights on colonizing Mars, saving the world from environmental catastrophe, developing a “revolutionary” subway system, and putting chips in all our brains. But his latest venture could be his most daring yet. The Tesla tycoon will host “Saturday Night Live” for the first time on May 8, finally giving his comedic genius the spotlight it... Read more ›
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A teenage cheerleader’s Snapchat post will feature in an upcoming Supreme Court ruling to decide whether children have a right to free speech in the US. A 9th grade girl took to Snapchat to vent her frustrations after learning she hadn’t been selected to the varsity cheer squad at her Pennsylvania high school. While her message was explicit, “fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything,” it certainly didn’t appear... Read more ›
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek may not have enough cash to pay musicians a penny per stream, but he can apparently afford a football team. The Swedish billionaire wants to acquire English Premier League side Arsenal, and is reportedly working with three of the club’s most celebrated former players on a takeover bid. As a kid growing up, I’ve cheered for @Arsenal as long as I can remember. If KSE would... Read more ›
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), an American non-profit organization that educates the public on vehicle safety performance, presented two new electric SUVs with its 2021 Top Safety Pick awards. To win the prizes, the vehicles had to score a “Good” rating in all six IIHS crash tests. The cars must also feature a front crash prevention system that earns “Advanced” or “Superior” ratings in both the vehicle-to-vehicle, and... Read more ›
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The Digital Hub Initiative’s Start-up Games Vol. 3 is fast approaching and ready to put the spotlight on ten up-and-comers. If you haven’t heard about it yet, in 2017, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s Digital Hub Initiative was set up to support the establishment of 12 digital Hubs across Germany. The Start-up Games is the event that brings together the most innovative startups from these Hubs... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 All-in-One Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Bundle is nine courses aimed at getting students schooled and hired as cybersecurity experts. Almost 7 of every 10 business leaders believe cybersecurity risks are only escalating. That’s probably because facts show they absolutely are. Cybersecurity experts estimate a cyberattack will happen every 11 seconds this year, nearly twice the rate of just two years ago. And its cost? $6.1 trillion... Read more ›
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Vivo and OnePlus, both companies under the BBK umbrella, have tried to make their phones compete with Apple’s iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy Series. The biggest challenge they had to face was to get their camera to produce stunning photos. This year both companies have tried to up the camera game in their own way. Vivo went with a large main sensor, a gimbal-stabilized ultra-wide-angle sensor, and a telescope zoom sensor.... Read more ›
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Earlier in March, President Biden revealed his infrastructure plans to invest $174 billion in the EV market. On April 22, Cars.com, an automotive digital marketplace, published a research monitoring the Americans’ interest in EVs. 66% of respondents (1,056 in total) in Cars.com’s national survey expressed an increased motivation to purchase an EV, following the president’s announcements. Nevertheless, 81% believe that there are still obstacles to be overcome. “Interest in EVs... Read more ›
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The United Kingdom is Europe’s second-biggest electric vehicle market. But Germany is still king of the hill. According to figures from analyst Matthias Schmidt, shared by The Guardian, 31,800 battery electric cars were sold in the UK over the first three months of the year. France sold 30,500 EVs across the same time period. [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] However, Germany is... Read more ›
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I’m a fan of the Apple Pencil, but I’ve always wanted it to do more. And it looks like that might be coming in the future… with a slide feature. Long story short, Patently Apple spotted a, uh, Apple patent for a slide function on the Apple Pencil. Goddamn, that was a lot of “Apple” in a single sentence. The idea behind the slide patent is quite simple. You run... Read more ›
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I don’t know how this monstrosity was birthed, but YouTube’s new video resolution selector on mobile has got to go. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, YouTube now has a revamped menu that pops up when you tap the quality button that eschews the standard resolution options of 480p, 720p, 1080p, and so on, for ‘friendlier’ phrasing: YouTube’s new options for adjusting video playback resolution Was this... Read more ›
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Last year, WhatsApp rolled out a feature that lets you send disappearing messages. The kicker was that those messages hovered around for seven days before vanishing — and it’s far too long Thankfully, we might getter better options soon. According to WABetaInfo, the chat app is working on a 24-hour option for ephemeral messages. However, this feature is under development, so we won’t be able to try it out just... Read more ›
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