The Heybike Alpha is an e-bike that makes a good starter mid-drive e-bike for larger individuals looking to have a bit of off-road fun. Heybike Alpha There are two main paths to e-bike ownership. You can either add a conversion kit to a bike you already enjoy or go with a purpose-built model that's ready to ride right away. It's a tricky balance since every option comes with trade-offs. You might opt for a slim, more traditional-looking e-bike with minimal design compromises, but that usually ..

U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced the bipartisan Open App Markets Act, aiming to curb Apple and Google's control over mobile app stores by promoting competition, supporting third-party marketplaces and sideloading, and safeguarding developer rights. AppleInsider reports: The Open App Markets Act seeks to do a number of things, including: - Protect developers' rights to tell consumers about lower prices and offer competitive pricing; - Protect sideloading of apps; - Promote competition by opening ..

BOSTON (Reuters) -The potential for stablecoins to fuel demand for short-term U.S. Treasury securities was a hot topic at a money market fund conference in Boston this week, with investors expecting these digital tokens to absorb a huge supply of government debt later this year. Read full story

(Reuters) -Micron Technology forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, betting on robust demand for its memory chips used for artificial intelligence hardware in data centers. Read full story

(Reuters) -The regulator overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday ordered the housing giants to consider cryptocurrency as an asset for single- family mortgage loan risk assessments, a move that could potentially open the door to borrowers using crypto investments to qualify for home loans. Read full story

(Reuters) -A first public test of robotaxis by Tesla in Austin, Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from company-selected riders showed over the first few days. Read full story

(Reuters) -Nvidia's stock hit a record high on Wednesday, and the chipmaker reclaimed the crown as the world's most valuable company after an analyst said the chipmaker was set to ride a "Golden Wave" of artificial intelligence. Read full story

Dustin Moskovitz, the largest individual owner of Asana stock, will stick around as the software company's board chair.

The immersive screening event aims to bring film history to new formats, but it still feels like a slippery slope.

Overall, the meeting was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments.

The HDMI Forum has officially made the HDMI 2.2 standard available to manufacturers, with future-proof features such as 16K video support and an increase in maximum memory bandwidth of up to 96 gigabits per second. The HDMI 2.2 standard is now available to manufacturers. On Wednesday, a significant update to the ever-popular HDMI standard was released. Seven years after the arrival of HDMI 2.1 , the HDMI Forum has unveiled the full specifications of the standard's successor, HDMI 2.2. The ..

Psylo, a new privacy-focused iOS browser by Mysk, aims to defeat digital fingerprinting by isolating each browser tab with its own IP address, unique fingerprinting defenses, and proxy-based encryption. "Psylo stands out as it is the only WebKit-based iOS browser that truly isolates tabs," Tommy Mysk told The Register. "It's not only about separate storage and cookies. Psylo goes beyond that." "This is why we call tabs 'silos.' It applies unique anti- fingerprinting measures per silo, such as ..

Here are five tips for making videos with Flow, Googles new AI filmmaking tool.

Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.

It's still American-Proud and designed with American values whatever that means.

Trump T1 phone isn't "made in the USA" but is "designed with American values."

We're getting yet another Hollywood sequel. Deadline reports that Aaron Sorkin will be directing The Social Network II , a follow-up to the film that chronicled the development of Facebook and the ensuing lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. The next movie will take its inspiration from a 2021 investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the harms caused by Facebook and the company's failure to address those problems. Sorkin has a long career as a writer, including the screenplay for The Social ..

A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books.

T-Mobile is working with Elon Musk's Starlink service, with a launch set for July. Verizon and AT&T; users will get access to Starlink as well.

If Fedora drops 32-bit support, the gaming-focused Bazzite project would be forced to shut down, according to its founder Kyle Gospodnetich. "As much as I'd like this change to happen, it's too soon," said Gospodneitch in a post. "This change would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely right as Fedora is starting to make major headway in the gaming space. Neal Gompa already pointed out basic use cases that would be broken even if someone built the packages Steam itself needs to function." He ..

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.

Micron reported earnings and revenue on Wednesday that exceeded analysts' estimates.

Fiber membrane tech inspired by sweating could help data centers cut energy use by improving heat management systems.

A real-world issue holds back the new 'Gundam' show right at its endone that can't let the rest of the series move on in the way it wants to.

Senators Marsha Blacburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have reintroduced a bill that would force app store owners like Apple and Google to allow third-party payment systems and sideloading apps, among a collection of other developer- friendly changes. The bill, called the Open App Markets App , was originally introduced in 2021 , but it never came up for a vote after passing through the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2022. ..

It works great for Amazon cloud gaming or as a controller on any device.

Buying a MacBook used to mean two things: picking your model and draining your bank account. But in 2025, that equation is changing. Apple users want more control, less hass

A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects' A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's "Steam Machines"-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS's Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. [...] As you can see in the included charts, SteamOS showed noticeable ..

The update brings on-screen captions for Gemini Live, making it easier to interact in silence

Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIREDincluding audio recordingsshow a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

The T1 "Trump" Phone won't launch in time to fight the iPhone 17 relea

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra could trade its stowable S Pen design for a big charging upgrade.

Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple) It's true: Apple's iOS 26 (not iOS 19) is coming your way this fall with some cool new features you'll want to try. Here's what we're excited about: the iPhone is finally getting a fresh home and lock screen redesign dubbed Liquid Glass , a look and feel that will extend across all of Apple's upcoming operating systems. The overhaul was one of several big changes coming to iOS, macOS, iPadOS and the rest of Apple's software suite, all ..

Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero- day.

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