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Riding a motorcycle or any two-wheeler, for that matter, is a perilous task in any city in India. The chaos on Indian roads is just way too much, and maneuvering a powerful bike becomes extremely difficult. Recently, an accident involving one such powerful motorcycle – the Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 – on a chaotic Indian road was shared online. In this particular incident, the rider of the Continental GT 650 crashed with an electric rickshaw that abruptly decided to make a U-turn on the road. The video of this…

The days of paying for something in the App Store and using it are a part of history, at this point. You can blame a race to the bottom which means people won't download an app or game unless it's free for that. But developers still have to make money, which means in-app purchases and, more pertinent to this piece, subscriptions.Now don't misunderstand my point here. I'm not saying that subscriptions are bad. Far from it, I think that they are an ideal way for developers to ensure that they get recurring income. In a…

Small landslide in the Puget Lowland study area. Scarp of the landslide can been seen at top of photo, as a 1-meter drop below trees. Lack of trees can indicate a landslide area. Credit: Erich Herzig New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago—and may also hold traces of older earthquakes…

In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion in hopes the straitlaced Detroit automaker could coopt the self-driving technology tipped to disrupt the auto industry. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt—a scrappy Twitch cofounder who competed as a teen in BattleBots—said he intended to stick around, but to keep running the driverless-car tech developer like a startup. He’d be out of a job, he…

"It's basically going through the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies," she says. "We've had the hype and now we're seeing the reality. The metaverse was capturing people's imagination. But we're still looking for proven use cases that are going to generate value."Searle's assertion that the metaverse is suffering a familiar fate to other over-hyped technologies is certainly one explanatory factor for the drop in interest in the metaverse. But another huge contributory factor is the rapid rise of artificial…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The analysis of a representative survey conducted in ten European countries shows that affective polarization is at its greatest when it comes to "climate change" and "immigration." Generally, people on the political left are more polarized than those on the right. Those on the political right,…

In the world of technology, where every second counts, the ability to predict and diagnose system faults is a game-changer. But what if we could go beyond reactive troubleshooting and proactively identify issues before they occur? Enter machine learning algorithms, the superheroes of predictive fault diagnosis and root cause analysis. Get ready to dive into the fascinating world of machine learning and discover how it revolutionizes fault diagnosis, saving time, resources, and headaches. The Power of Machine Learning:…

I recently devoted three posts on my reluctant study for the OCP-17 Java exam, offering advice on how to make the effort less of an ordeal. I haven’t passed it yet. With every new advance in AI coding assistance, honing your skills as a human compiler seems to me more anachronistic. It always was an act of masochism, but I am increasingly convinced that there is no professional advantage in becoming good at something the machine is superior at. I concede that any pursuit can be beneficial or enjoyable for reasons other…

From the second both movies were confirmed to be releasing on the exact same day, the world has been captivated by the rivalry between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Even though the star-studded and candy-colored comedy couldn’t be any more different from the historical biopic in every other way bar their respectively stacked ensembles, the battle has taken on a life of its own; so much so, in fact, that even Tom Cruise has felt compelled to weigh in. While conspiracy theories have already…

The East Anatolian fault zone was the site of two devastating earthquakes that occurred in Turkey and Syria in February 2023. While the University of Minnesota-led team's findings won't help predict timing or size of earthquakes, it allows geologists to learn more about how long the area has been seismically active and how major earthquakes have shaped the landscape over time. Credit: Google Earth, Donna Whitney An…