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The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “Zero screen time.” “The first thing was, I thought, ‘Wait a second, did somebody not change the ad?'”…
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AI can now handle the boring parts of photo and video editing for you as Adobe’s AI Assistant officially arrives inside Photoshop and Premiere

Photoshop can now rename and organize layers, resize projects, or swap out a background with a simple text prompt. On June 18, Adobe launched an AI agent across several Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop and Premiere, allowing the long-standing editing programs to carry out multi-step processes with a text prompt. The AI Assistant inside Photoshop and Premiere is rolling out beginning today…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Washington media sow confusion, claiming new law says e-bikes are now e-motorcycles

There’s a new law in Washington state regarding the classification of electric bicycles. But if you want to know what the new law says, you should probably avoid reading the news in Washington. That’s because most reports seem to be getting the law wrong. What was merely a slight legal clarification to more neatly and clearly reinforce the widely accepted three-class system used by the…
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Germany moves two ships to Djibouti, eyeing multinational Hormuz mission this summer

VIENNA — The German Navy is moving two ships to the Red Sea in preparation for a possible mine-clearing mission in the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s defense minister confirmed on Thursday. Speaking to the press before a meeting of NATO defense chiefs in Brussels, German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said that the mine-clearing ship Fulda and the supply ship Mosel had passed the Suez…
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