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The electric bicycle and e-motorcycle company SONDORS is teasing something new, and it looks a lot like an electric dirt bike. SONDORS just sent out a teaser email to its followers explaining that the “Next SONDORS product release is coming soon.” There aren’t many details about the new model provided, other than that the coming product announcement is described as being “MetaBIG”. The play on words invokes the SONDORS Metacycle, a small format electric motorcycle first announced by the…

Key Glock returns with Glockoma 2, the long-awaited follow-up to his 2018 mixtape.The project delivers 15 tracks, including titles like “Chromosomes,” “Designer Down,” “Fuck a Feature,” and the opener, “Dirt,” which received the video treatment in conjunction with the album release.Key Glock spoke about the project in a recent interview with Esquire, explaining how it reflected his new approach to music-making.“It’s the mood I’ve been in lately,” he began. “I’ve been real aggressive, not like violently, but more motivated…

Electric dirt jumpers are a niche within a niche of the larger electric bike market. But while the ONYX LZR Pro e-bike doesn’t have much competition on either side of it as one of the models in its class, the bike still manages to stand out for its impressive build quality and ability to take it to the streets and the trails. Now I’m not much of a jumper myself. I’ve seen the marketing images and videos from ONYX that show their team of pro riders flying across the sky on this e-bike and…

Using drones for aerial seeding may seem like a good idea, but … the seeds could easily just blow away if left on the surface of the soil. A bio-inspired seed carrier has been designed to help, by corkscrewing its seed load down into the ground.The device is known as the E-seed, and it was created by a Carnegie Mellon University team led by Asst. Prof. Lining Yao. She was in turn inspired by the Erodium genus of plants, which has evolved a unique strategy for surviving in arid climates.Some of the plants have seeds that…

The idea of using dirt on the Moon to manufacture solar cells, which could power a permanent human settlement, may seem outlandish, but two companies say they’ve made big progress on that front: they each say they’ve already made solar cells using fake Moon dirt.Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin says it’s been making solar cells this way since 2021 but just made that information public in a blog post on Friday. Separately, Lunar Resources, which aims to develop technologies for the “large-scale industrialization of Space,”…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has dropped the last of 10 sample tubes onto the surface of Mars, thereby completing humanity’s “first sample depot on another world.” The rover began depositing titanium tubes containing samples of rock and dust six weeks ago as part of the Mars sample return mission to collect Martian material and deliver it to Earth for further study.Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021, touching down inside a 28-mile-wide bowl known as Jezero Crater with a core mission to look for signs of ancient…

There will be a moment in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the gorgeous, unconventional debut from Raven Jackson, when the film’s spell works. It may be in the first 15 minutes, lulled by Mississippi’s lush soundscape and meditative shots of a southern summer, or an extended take in a hospital delivery room. It could wait until the final scene, an ode to memories already recorded and yet to come.The pull of this sparsely worded, deeply sensitive film will probably depend on what triggers one’s personal sentimentality and,…

There has always been an emotional vulnerability to the music of Lucinda Williams. Roots, blues, country, Americana, call it what you will – above all, hers are songs that find the tender parts: the taste of sweat, the scent of persimmons, the long drive thinking of a lover.Tonight at the Barbican, that fragility feels amplified. A little over two years ago, Williams suffered a stroke, in the wake of which it seemed unlikely she would return to performing. But this evening she stands on stage, in blue jeans and…

RCA, the century-old electronics brand that may be most famous for its consumer products like the VCR, has launched a series of electric bicycles with the unveiling of three new models. Two of the e-bikes are fairly ordinary models, but the third is a more aggressive and higher-power e-bike with a striking design. The shift to e-bikes might sound strange for a brand known for radios, VCRs and other home entertainment products. However, the RCA brand was purchased by a parent company that brings…

Ken Block, a professional rally driver that starred in several Need for Speed, Forza and Dirt video games, has died at 55 following an accident near his ranch in Woodland, Utah. The news was confirmed by Wasatch County Sherrif’s Office on Facebook, which stated that Block died on January 2 due to his snowmobile upending. Block’s death was also confirmed by his team Hoonigan Racing, with an Instagram post paying tribute to the racer. “It’s with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a…