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Pedal-powered "velocars" certainly are fun, eco-friendly, fitness-boosting and even practical, but they can also be rather tippy. Canadian builder Wally Swarchuk has addressed that shortcoming in his one-off Tilt4orce, which uses a custom swingarm suspension to lean into turns.A 78-year-old retired high school teacher and curriculum writer living in the city of Kelowna, British Columbia, Swarchuk started work on the vehicle 16 years ago. In fact, Tilt4orce originally took the form of a recumbent tadpole trike (two wheels…

We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time for the Oscars, a new OpenAI app called Sora hopes to master cinema without going to film school. For now a research product, Sora is going out to a few select creators and a number of security experts who will red-team it for safety vulnerabilities. OpenAI plans to make it available to all wannabe auteurs at some unspecified date, but it decided to preview it in advance.Other companies, from giants like Google to…

To think of the Yorkshire Ripper as a type of terrorist makes sense, given that the fear he engendered during his crimewave was far in excess of his actual reach. Here was a faceless phantom of almost supernatural power, striking at will and at random. In a time before the endless serving up of serial killers as nightly entertainment, women and girls across the north walked in groups after dark or stayed indoors; developed a horror of ginnels, alleys and snickets; looked at the men around them, wondering, could it be him,…

Investors see possible gains as bullish market supports XRP price soars 4.96% in 24 hours Crypto News: XRP, the native cryptocurrency of the XRP Ledger, has increased significantly over the last day as the cryptocurrency market turned bullish following a period of stabilization. XRP was trading at US$0.548 at the time of writing. With a US$29.86 billion market value. The rise in XRP price coincides with a bullish mood in the cryptocurrency field, as the top cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, broke above US$52,000.…

In the past, when Lunar New Year rolled around, I would occasionally make a rude bingo card to ease the generational friction created by many disparate relatives suddenly spending too much time together. I didn’t share the bingo cards with everyone, but they were a small, silly way to let off steam and commiserate with like-minded victims enduring hours-long reunion dinners and polite family visits with very difficult people. This year, I was armed with something far superior: I made a (fictional)…

I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish.Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of my life as a child and teen — the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, random cartoons, commercials for United Airlines, cameos in Disney productions. It’s one of those classical pieces, like Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies and Bach’s spooky Toccata and Fugue in D minor, that long ago left orchestra…

Buying anything that costs at least a few hundred dollars can be stressful. There are lots of details you need to consider before making such a costly purchase. Especially when it’s a used car that you’ll probably be driving every single day.There’s always a slight niggle at the back of your mind that you might have overlooked something important before forking over your cash. Redditor u/John-Wilks-Boof shared an amusing story on the r/pettyrevenge subreddit about how he one-upped a dishonest car seller who’d tricked…

With Valentine's Day around the corner, love is in the air. Nothing says "I love you" like taking off your shirt before quite literally tear someone's heart out.As noted by the official X/Twitter account for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, players will soon be able to download a free shirtless outfit for Johnny."He'll show you how real farmin' is done. Shirtless Johnny will be coming to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as a free cosmetic for everyone. Details to be announced soon."He'll show you how real…

A collaborative project between film-makers Rosine Mbakam, An van Dienderen and Eléonore Yaméogo, Prism interrogates the supposed neutrality of the photographic lens, principally in regards to representations of race. Moving through the corridors of a film school before alighting on a sparse set where a lighting test is taking place, Dienderen’s section unfolds as a continuation of her short film Lili, which grapples with a cinema practice called “china girl”. Used for calibration purposes, these test images usually…

Tata Digital could soon be integrating BigBasket, 1mg and Tata Cliq to boost efficiency and market agility. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Healthtech platforms leverage AI■ Interview with Applied Materials MD■ Investors await bitcoin halvingTata Digital explores operational integration Tata Sons chairman N ChandrasekaranIn a move aimed at streamlining operations and cutting costs, Tata Digital is mulling the integration of operational structures of key assets such as Big…