Greg LeMond is best known for his three-decade cycling career, countless contributions to cycling innovation and of course his three Tour de France victories. But now he’s adding a new line to his résumé , launching LeMond Bicycles and its first two models, the Dutch and the Daily electric bicycles.
LeMond Dutch and Daily e-bikes unveiled
Both the LeMond Dutch and Daily e-bikes are built…
iOS 14 jailbreak available for older devices; some newer ones likely
September 22, 2020
An iOS 14 jailbreak is now available for older devices, and the team says that it will likely support some newer ones soon.
It’s from the team behind the ‘unpatchable’ checkm8 exploit which enabled a jailbreak for almost every iPhone from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone X…
Michigan is closing the door behind Tesla on direct-sale, leaving Rivian, Lucid, and more behind
September 22, 2020
Michigan, the home state of the US auto industry’s big three, is making sure that it is closing the door behind Tesla on direct-sale as Rivian is about to follow in its footsteps.
In many ways, Tesla has open doors for new EV startups in the auto industry.
There are some…
Years after the original Sony Xperia Play was let out to pasture, an alleged Xperia Play 2 prototype has surfaced online showing what appears to be the canceled gaming-focused smartphone.
Early gaming on Android and iOS was limited to 2D titles and gave rise to titles such as Angry Birds, with very few 3D titles to really speak of. As smartphones have improved, internals upgraded, and the…
Scam apps see 2.4M downloads on iOS and Android, make $500k
September 22, 2020
A series of iOS and Android scam apps identified by security researchers managed to rack up a total of 2.4M downloads and make $500k thanks to promotion on TikTok and Instagram. They came to light after a report by a child …
says that the apps appeared to target…
Qualcomm's mid-range chip uses AI to clean up the audio on voice calls
September 22, 2020
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 750G, a 5G-capable processor designed for mid-range smartphones rather than higher-tier devices that might use the Snapdragon 765G. The key feature is an updated 4 TOPS (trillion operations per second) AI system that can do echo…
You can now set Firefox as your default iOS browser
September 22, 2020
One big benefit of iOS 14 is that you can set non-Apple-made apps as your default, including for email and web browsing. Hot on the heels of you being able to set Chrome and Gmail as your clients of choice, Firefox is enabling you to make its browser the default on iPhones and iPads. Naturally, you’ll need to have both the latest version of the operating system and the apps, and then just make…
OnePlus 8T leak suggests €599 start price w/ more proposed specs
September 22, 2020
More alleged specs and supposed start price of the upcoming OnePlus 8T have now been shared online, with the solo 8T series smartphone coming with some notable hardware improvements at what appears to be an “affordable” package,
As we await the official October 14…
HP's first Intel 11th-gen laptops use recycled ocean-bound plastics
September 22, 2020
HP has unveiled its latest 13-, 14- and 15-inch Pavilion laptops that are its first to use 11th-generation Intel Core processors and Iris XE graphics that should deliver a huge GPU boost over last-gen Intel chips. They’re also among the company’s first laptops (along…
DeepCube’s software-based solution accelerates AI on existing hardware
September 22, 2020
DeepCube, a startup developing a platform that reduces the computational requirements of AI algorithms on existing hardware, today raised $7 million. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the funds will be put toward research, commercialization, and growth of the DeepCube team at its offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Machine learning deployments have historically been constrained by the size and speed…
