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FLO is making clumsy DC fast charger cables a thing of the past

Photo: FLO Say goodbye to wrestling with awkward, heavy charging cables – meet FLO’s new DC fast-charging cable management system. How FLO’s new charger cables work EV charging network operator FLO‘s system is called EZLift. It uses a patent-pending motorized system to assist with fast-charging cable extension and retraction. Fast-charging cables can weigh more than 25 pounds, making them difficult and clumsy to maneuver. The EZLift system makes fast-charging cables much easier to…

Clumsy kittens, pigs in costumes and glittery unicorns: how the cult of cute took hold | Life and style

Every day I rise early, like a stock trader, to start the daily business of sending and receiving adorable videos. Pigs wearing pig costumes, alien creatures spanking each other’s botties, relationship dynamics explored via gibberish, talking cats and noodly cartoons. My friends and I are in deep, but how did this happen? “Cuteness has been slowly taking over our world,” says Claire Catterall, curator of the Cute exhibition at London’s Somerset House. “It’s now accepted as one of our languages.”It’s a language that…

Amazon Halo Rise review: A sleep-tracking nearable to replace your clumsy wearable

pros and cons Pros Contactless sleep tracking Doubles as a sunrise alarm clock Consolidates complex sleep data into a digestible sleep score Doesn't require a Halo membership Cons Can only use voice control when paired with an Alexa or Echo Show device Doesn't track snoring or coughing more buying choices Back in September, Amazon introduced its newest sleep-tracking device to the ever-growing health and fitness market: the Halo RiseBut wait, there's more: The device doubles as a smart, sun-simulating alarm that can

Meta has Become Clumsy and its AI Galactica is the Proof

Meta AI was very hopeful about their AI Galactica and it is not what they hoped for Galactica is an artificial intelligence developed by Meta AI (formerly known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) with the intention of using machine learning to “organize science.” It’s caused a bit of a stir since a demo version was released online last week, with critics suggesting it produced pseudoscience, was overhyped, and not ready for public use. The tool is pitched as a kind of evolution of the…

Android Owners Are Less Clumsy Than iPhone Owners, Study Shows

A study by Comparemymobile shows iPhone owners are more likely to damage their device. In contrast, Android owners are a bit more conservative.Smartphones have become an inseparable part of our lives, and we carry them almost everywhere, even on the toilet. There are several ways to protect the device from shock, for example, buying a suitable case or using shockproof screen protectors. But sometimes, damage to the device is unavoidable.According to a report by Comparemymobile, Android owners usually expose their devices…

End of the Road review – Queen Latifah finds a dead end in clumsy Netflix thriller | Film

In the Netflix thriller End of the Road, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges’ character Reggie finds himself in an isolated roadside motel, staring down a bag full of shrink-wrapped cash stashed near a man left for dead. Reggie grabs that bag, ignoring the lessons learned in movies like No Country for Old Men and A Simple Plan, where easy money comes with a body count.Maybe Reggie felt the rules in that genre don’t apply since those movies were always about white people. End of the Road sets itself apart chiefly by leaning into its…

Scarily obvious: why the horror genre needs to drop clumsy metaphors | Horror films

In the new Alex Garland thriller Men, Jessie Buckley plays a woman whose holiday in the English countryside curdles into a surreal nightmare. Her tormenter is at once singular and plural: a whole village of hostile strangers, all with the face and voice of Rory Kinnear. Garland, the sci-fi novelist who wrote and directed Ex Machina and Annihilation (both likewise fixated, to some degree, on questions of gender), never explains the nature of this menacing anomaly, this apparent hive mind of identical stalkers. But anyone…