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Fuell Flluid first ride: Turns out a motorcycle designer can build a very nice e-bike!

April 20, 2021
I’ve watched in fascination as Erik Buell’s latest two-wheeler company, Fuell, unveiled and then began deliveries on a high-end electric commuter bike. Now that the company let me borrow a Fuell Flluid for a test ride, I can finally tell you what I think of the bike. Spoiler alert: It’s pretty sweet. Due to a series of tight schedules, the company and I could only align for a few hours…
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This mountain project won the DOE’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge

April 20, 2021
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of its collegiate competition, the Solar Decathlon, yesterday. The contest, which has been running since 2002, challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by clean energy. What’s the Solar Decathlon? As the US Department of Energy explains in its blog: The US Department of Energy Solar…
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Watch beat-up GMC Hummer EV crab walk in traffic

April 20, 2021
A pretty beat-up GMC Hummer EV prototype was spotted using its “crab walk” feature in traffic to help change lanes. Last year, GM unveiled the GMC Hummer EV, a 350-mile electric pickup truck with an $80,000 starting price. The pickup truck is stacked with a ton of…
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Rainway partners with Microsoft to power Xbox Game Pass iOS streaming

April 19, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Microsoft is working with streaming-tech startup Rainway to bring Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming to iOS. Rainway enables low-latency streaming through browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Edge. This deal is important because Apple is still preventing competitors from launching game-streaming platforms on the App Store. But…
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A Look Back at the Canon EOS-1, the First Pro EOS Camera

April 19, 2021
Announced at a press conference in June 1989 in Bar Harbor, Maine, the Canon EOS-1 was a 35mm SLR meant to be a turning point in professional cameras. Canon did away with traditional controls in favor of a push-button system, utilized ultrasonic motored lenses, and added an…
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Selfie Culture: What Your Choice of Camera Angle Says About You

April 19, 2021
Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. If the #selfie hashtag first appeared in 2004, it was the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 that saw the pictures go viral. Three years later, the Oxford English Dictionary crowned “selfie” word of the year. We use selfies for a variety of purposes, ranging from the social to the professional. According to a 2018 survey…
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