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First ride: We tested the new SONDORS e-bikes: Rockstar, Cruiser, LX, and MadMods e-moped

January 13, 2021
Electric bicycle company SONDORS has been busy over the last six months, unveiling a handful of new e-bikes and rushing them into production. We got the chance to test out the company’s latest four models including the SONDORS Rockstar, Cruiser, LX, and the upcoming SONDORS MadMods electric moped. On a sunny Los Angeles morning earlier this week, Electrek team member David O’Connell (aka…
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App Annie: Mobile games could grow 20% to $120 billion in 2021

January 13, 2021
Mobile game spending could grow 20% to $120 billion in 2021, according to a report by mobile data and analytics provider App Annie. The firm also said that overall mobile app spending hit $143 billion in 2020. The San Francisco company’s State of Mobile 2021 report showed…
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This Company is Making Wholly Original, Affordable, Customizable Medium Format Film Cameras

January 13, 2021
In 2016 and again in 2018, PetaPixel featured the work of Dora Goodman, a woman who was adding hand-crafted elements to analog cameras. Fast forward to 2021, and Goodman has gone steps further and finally created cameras of her own design. When Goodman started her project almost five years ago the business was built around reskinning cameras with wood, leather, or any special material. Though a…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 12, 2021

January 13, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Apple allegedly held talks with EV startup Canoo about developing its own car

January 13, 2021
Rumors about Apple Car have become more frequent in recent weeks, and it seems there’s more to come. The Verge reported today that Apple had talks last year with Canoo, a startup focused on electric vehicles and related technologies, to push the development of the long-rumored Apple-branded car. According to the report, both companies discussed the possibility of investments and even an…
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Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model

January 13, 2021
Parameters are the key to machine learning algorithms. They’re the part of the model that’s learned from historical training data. Generally speaking, in the language domain, the correlation between the number of parameters and sophistication has held up remarkably well. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 — one of the largest language models ever trained, at 175 billion parameters — can make…
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