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In many ball sports like golf, football and tennis, controlling the ball’s spin is an important skill. Expert players can make golf balls curve around obstacles, launch footballs towards goal …read more Continue reading A Self-Spinning Tennis Ball to Surprise Your Opponent
For anyone looking to buy a 3D printer at home, the first major decision that needs to be made is whether to get a resin printer or a filament printer. …read more Continue reading New Resin Printing Method Creates Objects in Seconds
To say that the process of installing a magnetic resonance imager in a hospital is a complex task is a serious understatement. Once the approval of regulators is obtained, a process that could take years, architects and engineers have to figure out where the massive machine can be installed. An …read more
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance. Continue reading Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
Moiré patterns are interference patterns created when grids of different size or alignment are placed over each other. You’ve probably seen these when photographing a TV screen or looking through a pair of windows screens at the same time. [ChrysN] put the effect to work with this spinning Moiré lamp …read more
You can add another bullet point to the long list of things that drive people nuts about the electric scooter craze in America: the scooters can be hacked. A researcher with San Francisco-based Zimperium discovered a way to manipulate Xiaomi M365 scooter through a Bluetooth connection. Users can access their scooter via an app that connects to the scooter, as long as users authenticate with a password. However Zimperium researcher Rani Idan determined the password fails to completely protect users. “During our research, we determined the password is not being used properly as part of the authentication process with the scooter and that all commands can be executed without the password,” Idan wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “The password is only validated on the application side, but the scooter itself doesn’t keep track of the authentication state.” From there, Idan wrote an app for his mobile device that allowed him to […]
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Ford’s CEO sees the tech company model as key to the company’s next chapter. Continue reading Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
The City of San Francisco just gave scooter companies Bird, Spin, and Lime an ultimatum: Get off the street and apply for a permit, or else. Continue reading Scooter Companies Have Two Weeks to Get Off the Streets of San Francisco
People are hoarding electric scooters and going into other people’s homes to retrieve them. Continue reading The Gig Economy Workers Who Power the Scooter Ridesharing Craze for a Pittance
San Francisco’s electric scooters are disruptive to the communities where they are abandoned and, because they are constantly moving, the issues of abandonment and refuse cycle through neighborhoods. Continue reading Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability