Swimming

What if the giant sail-backed Spinosaurus wasn’t actually a swimming dinosaur at all? Despite some scientists’ impressions of the dinosaur, as well as the way it is portrayed in Jurassic Park 3, the Spinosaurus might not have been very good at diving.This new theory is shared in-depth in a study featured in the latest edition of PLOS ONE. Paleontologists generally agree that the Spinosaurus was a fish-eater. But, what they haven’t always agreed on is how the dinosaur went about catching its meals and whether or…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThe H2O Audio Tri Pro, they are now the perfect bone conduction headset for my needs and, possibly, for yours too.View at Amazon With Playlist Plus enabled, the headset will load content that you play on your smartphone into an offline folder on the headset with 8GB of space available. You can turn on the Playlist Plus capture via button presses on the headset or via the H2O Audio smartphone app. Matthew Miller/ZDNETMy preferred way to get my Spotify playlists over to the…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Best Board Shorts of 2024, At a Glance Enjoying warm water is a highlight of any summer, but you’ll need a pair of trusty board shorts to do so. Luckily, board shorts have quietly become more high-tech than ever. Although often used synonymously with “swim trunks,” board shorts are more geared towards surfing and beach sports than swim trunks (see…

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bike launches from Trek and Sixthreezero, a potential e-bike regulation bill in Congress, a new Gogoro electric scooter, CAKE’s bankruptcy, e-motorcycles going for a swim, and more. The Wheel-E podcast returns every two weeks on Electrek’s YouTube channel, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter. As a reminder, we’ll…

There’s good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who’s who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as “the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing.” The list includes Christian Angermayer, venture capitalist, Balaji Srinivasan, former Coinbase CTO, and Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and frenemy of Elon Musk. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie “Unlike the Olympic Games, Enhanced believes…

Lugubrious, laborious and ridiculous – this movie version of Deborah Levy’s celebrated novel Swimming Home is frankly uncomfortable in the most wrong way possible. Film-maker and artist Justin Anderson has established himself as a creative visual talent but for this feature debut he has somehow conjured awful, torpid performances from his excellent cast, perpetually crowding up to them with pedantic, over-determined closeups. His film insists on a bafflingly unsexy and uninteresting type of erotic tension and conflates…

Deep Green has announced plans to heat between 100-150 swimming pools nationwide using recycled heat from data centres — and just landed a heap of cash to get the job done.  The London-based startup installs tiny data centres at energy-intensive sites like leisure centre facilities. Its system turns waste heat from the computers into hot water for the site.  In return, cold water from the centre is used to cool the cloud servers. The idea is that the host site gets free heating generated by…

People could be making tracks to see an impressive new exhibit of 320-million-year-old footprints at the Cape Breton Fossil Centre in Sydney Mines, N.S.A group of geologists from Cape Breton University recently found fossilized claw imprints that are remarkable for their size and age."The stuff we get on Cape Breton and in Nova Scotia in general, it runs literally anywhere from an order of under a centimetre to a few centimetres," Jason Loxton, a senior geology instructor at CBU and curator of the Cape Breton Fossil…

Shokz has making Bluetooth bone conduction headsets for years, including a personal favorite: the OpenRun Pro. However, you may have overlooked one of company's more niche variants. In 2019 the company launched a model called Xtrainerz, a bone conduction headset with an IP68 waterproof rating, 4GB of onboard storage and no Bluetooth. This was pitched as an all around training headset with a focus on swimmers. Recently it was renamed OpenSwim, but today at CES 2024 in Las Vegas the company has announced its improved…

Cleaning a pool is necessary but it’s certainly not a fun task, and that’s why the new pool cleaning robots from Aiper should catch your eye. The all-new ‘Scuba’ series of robots includes five different models, designed to fit every budget and cater to your needs no matter what size pool you have. All five robots are cordless too, and they start as low as $199 for the Scuba SE or $399 for the Scuba E1. Aiper says the SE is ideal for pools that are above ground, and around 860 square feet in size. You could probably use…