On Sunday, popular American singer songwriter Halsey shared a video on TikTok with tinny music in the background, the on-screen text reading: Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP but my record label won’t let me. I’ve been in this industry for 8 years and I’ve sold over 165 million records. And my record company is saying that I can’t release it unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok. Everything is marketing. And they are doing this to basically every artist these
I tend to gravitate toward ebikes that are light and nimble. I like ebikes that feel more like regular bikes, especially those that use torque sensors for the smoothest pedaling experience. The Velotric Discover 1 isn’t quite that. But for an MSRP of $1,899 (currently on sale for $1,399), it’s a pretty sweet ride in an accessible form factor and a strong first entry for a new company entering a crowded ebike market. The Discover 1 doesn’t stand out in any single metric, but it comes together in
Jason Silva, futurist and host of National Geographic’s “Brain Games,” recently published a mind-bending YouTube video combining the technological prowess of AI with the artistic creativity of someone who believes in the power of psychoactive experiences. It’s called “Dreaming while awake: a journey into ourselves.” The description on Silva’s YouTube channel describes the video as: The first art piece of the singularity: born from a human-AI collaboration by Jason Silva, Hueman Instrument and di
This week, new research found that roundabouts are overrepresented in bike accidents. Dutch traffic bureau VIA looked at registered accidents at intersections that involved cyclists between 2014 and 2021. It found most of the intersection bike crashes in the Netherlands occur at roundabouts. Specifically, 12% of the total bike crashes involved intersections or almost one in eight. Roundabouts are designed to improve traffic flow — particularly for car drivers — by removing stop signs and traffi
The year is 2030 and we are at the world’s largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to the stage and announces the Nyooro, containing the most powerful processor ever seen in a phone. The Nyooro can perform an astonishing quintillion operations per second, which is a thousand times faster than smartphone models in 2020. It is also ten times more energy-efficient with a battery that lasts for ten days. A jo
This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. If an adversary gives you a machine learning model and secretly plants a malicious backdoor in it, what are the chances that you can discover it? Very little, according to a new paper by researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, and the Institute of Advanced Study. The security of machine learning is becoming increasingly critical as ML models find their way into a growing number of applications. The new study focuses on the security thre
Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more new kinds of aviation vehicles come on the market, from flyboards to flying motorbikes to eVTOLs. So when we saw a video of a hoverboard being flown in Paris this week, we just knew we had to share it with you. What’s a better fuck you to city traffic than whizzing through the air above it? A video on YouTube by Omni Hoverboard shows a man flying the hovercraft, using a handheld device to steer, over a large ornamental pond outside a city landma
If you want to find your dream job, you need to stand out from the crowd. It’s not enough to meet the job requirements, have a decent CV, and a few good references. In today’s competitive job market, job seekers need to go above and beyond to cut through the noise and kick off their career. One of the best ways to do this is to create an online portfolio. A good online portfolio will give you a clean and organized place to showcase your past work, talk about your experience, and share your favor
Sorry if this triggers your anxiety: remember how we once had to charge our phones overnight so they were ready for action the next day? It took hours to charge devices from 0 to 100%, and we would frantically look for chargers if the battery level went below a certain threshold. That has changed in the last couple of years, during which we’ve seen the evolution of charging tech that fully juices up phones in under half an hour. Phew. Good old days There’s also a fast-charging arms race going on
Parks, small woodlands and even simple patches of grass not only keep a city attractive, but also help people find a sense of bliss in an otherwise bustling urban environment. With new technologies, we can plan and monitor these urban “green spaces” better than ever before. As several studies have highlighted, nature within urban settings plays a pivotal role in combating many of the global public health challenges commonly associated with urbanization. This includes maladies such as depression