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This bike rack pioneer is selling Bluetooth suction cups to stick bikes to your car
Richard Allen didn’t invent the automobile bike rack — his 1967 patent application makes it clear that others came before. But after nearly sixty years selling popular and simple mechanical bike carriers, his company Allen Bikes now offers a line of — yes — Bluetooth-monitored suction cups to stick bikes…
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The ABS Challenge System is exposing the worst umpire in baseball
During Wednesday’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers, umpire CB Bucknor took a foul ball to the mask and had to be helped off the field. It was the cap to what has been a particularly bad week for one of the most controversial umpires in…
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Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public
It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about who was being let go and why, and explanations from top executives including CEO Bill Ready…
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Trump fires US attorney general Pam Bondi
Donald Trump: Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam,…
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If only your EV did this: Dell’s new supercapacitor keyboard and mouse combo delivers ‘full day use’ with a 5-second charge — here’s how
Supercapacitors turn charging time from hours into mere seconds Fast charging exposes the real limits of lithium-ion battery chemistry Supercapacitor technology lacks sufficient energy capacity for practical electric vehicles Dell has introduced a keyboard and mouse combo that charges in five seconds and delivers a full day of use. The…
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‘I was stuck on the overpass with dump trucks all around me’: A mass Baidu robotaxi outage just caused traffic mayhem in China
Collisions, delays and traffic chaos reported due to robotaxi outage Police said system malfunction caused multiple vehicles to stop Baidu has a fleet of more than 500 driverless cars in Wuhan A mass robotaxi outage in the Chinese city of Wuhan has reportedly caused traffic chaos, after several fully autonomous…
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