But sometimes bikes are the more convenient vehicle too. As a city-dweller who used to occasionally drive, not having to park and cutting through traffic saves me a bunch of time. I’ve been riding ebikes for transportation almost exclusively for the past couple of years, and I’ve come to realize that for almost all day-to-day tasks, and even some irregular ones, an electric bike is more than enough. Yes, you’ll have to be a little bit creative, especially if you haven’t got yourself a proper cargo ebike....

More recently, however, advanced technologies in web development have made the task a bit more difficult. In this article, we’ll explore how we might go about scraping data in the case that new technology and other factors prevent standard scraping. Traditional data scraping As most websites produce pages meant for human readability rather than automated reading, web scraping mainly consisted of programmatically digesting a web page’s mark-up data (think right-click, View Source), then detecting static patterns in that data that would allow the program to “read” various pieces of information and save it to a file or a database....

If you want to watch it, you can head on to Huawei’s YouTube page here, or better yet, just watch the stream below: The company is expected to announce four new phones, including the flagship Huawei Mate 30 Pro, the premium-ish Mate 30, the cheaper Mate 30 Lite, and the special edition Mate 30 Porche Design. Credit: @evleaks Except for the Lite, each of these phones is expected to run Huawei’s new Kirin 990 chip with built-in 5G capabilities....

But British start-up Page-Roberts revealed a concept with a vertical EV battery design, which it claims reduces manufacturing costs up to 36%, and enables 30% more vehicle range. Why? As per the company, the skateboard structure has two main disadvantages: increased size and weight. According to CEO Freddy Page-Roberts, How does it work? Page-Roberts places a vertical battery pack into a torsion box arrangement right between the front and rear row of seats....

I continued exploring this world of live-streamed place-based webcams, something I had previously overlooked. I was fascinated by those focusing on city centers, which revealed largely deserted urban landscapes. I left nature-cams and coastal webcams open on my PC monitor as welcome distractions as I worked from home. They offered me a portal to the outside world, when I, like so many others, was trapped inside. I suspected I was not alone in my virtual travels....

The leaker claims the P40 – it’s not clear if he’s talking about the P40 Pro or plain P40 – will come with some serious-business specifications. Among these is a 6.5-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, something we’ve previously only seen on a couple of gaming devices. — Yash Raj Chaudhary (@hereYashRaj) December 8, 2019 Also notable is a whopping 5,500 mAh battery. It’s wonderful to see smartphone companies have all but ended the war for thinness in favor of larger batteries – even the iPhone 11 Pro has a massive battery now – but it seems Huawei is using some newfangled technology next year....

Yang said the Chinese tech giant wants to maintain one ecosystem at the moment, and its upcoming flagship will run Android. He also added HarmonyOS is just a Plan B in case the US authorities upholds the ban on the company. The company released a smart TV running HarmonyOS under its sub-brand Honor, and according to Yang, it might launch a smartwatch using the same platform as well. With this statement, Huawei has squashed the rumors of a HarmonyOS powered phone for now....

Unfortunately, no records survived telling of this celestial event south of the equator. However, astronomers have now turned the mighty gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope to examine the remnants of this titanic explosion, called 1E 0102.2–729. By studying the cloud of gas and dust left behind, astronomers hope to piece together the story of the eruption that created this magnificent nebula. 1E 0102.2–7219 — Charming name. Rolls off the tongue… The eruption forming the nebula was seen on Earth 1,700 years ago, but the explosion was not recognized by astronomers until recently....

Am I the only one wondering how the “future” ended up being a world where AI can beat us at board-games and we’re better at piloting vehicles? That’s not to say that controlling these particular drones is any mean feat. The Drone Racing League, for those unfamiliar, is probably not what you’re thinking. Unlike traditional “RC” races, this doesn’t involve a bunch of people staring up at the sky with a remote control in their hands....

Usually, I’d open the Spotlight search tool (Cmd + Space), type in ‘notes’, and write a new note in the app that shows up. It’s not a bad process, but it’s a tad lengthy. Thankfully, I accidentally found this amazing trick to launch the Notes app and start writing. It was so simple that I am still kicking myself for not knowing it all these years. Are you ready for it?...

But I won’t be uninstalling Rocksmith 2014 Edition Remastered anytime soon. The new game’s called Rocksmith+. But from here on out I’m just going to call it the new Rocksmith because adding a symbol to a game’s name in the age of Google Search and SEO is just inviting misery and I don’t want to support it. Rather than putting out a traditional sequel, Ubisoft’s reimagined the game for the modern era as a subscription service....

The past few years have been some of the absolute worst on record for natural disasters. Hurricanes and wildfires have raged out of control causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage. Entire communities have been ravaged. Not only is there no end in sight, but current trends indicate things are only going to get worse as the human-caused climate crisis continues to disrupt the environment and produce these historic, unpredictable events....

Call for Code is a five-year challenge created by IBM and the David Clarke Foundation. It calls on developers, humanitarians, and dreamers to come up with solutions to some of the biggest problems facing the world including disaster response, climate crisis mitigation, and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. A little over a month ago TNW reported on the addition of COVID-19 response to the Call for Code challenge. In the short time since, IBM’s managed to find three promising solutions to problems that affect almost all of us....

That’s why, in the modern era, the idea of corporate responsibility has to go beyond charitable donations and one-off events to raise awareness. The most vulnerable communities need more than just cash. They need sustainable solutions to long-term problems. Enter Big Blue IBM’s new “Sustainability Accelerator” is a program designed to give under-serviced communities an advantage in the fight against the human-wrought climate and energy crisis, natural disasters, and the devastating effects of pollution, with an eye towards the future....

The letter says companies should provide lawful access to the system and they should also build mechanisms that can enable authorities to see content “in a readable and usable format where authorization is lawfully issued.” With this move, these countries are making the same old argument about encryption. They’re saying that end-to-end encryption prevents companies from monitoring who’s breaking their terms of service and community guidelines, including incidents such as including child sexual exploitation and abuse, and terrorist propaganda....

Jio, which has over 300 million subscribers in the country, will launch this program in 200 locations across 13 states. The company said the ‘Digital Udaan’ initiative will eventually reach 7,000 locations. In sessions held every Saturday at these locations in regional languages, the program will teach new internet users about online safety, and how to use apps like Facebook. It’ll also help them get to grips with the carrier’s JioPhone, a low-cost feature phone that runs on KaiOS and includes a bunch of modern features like Google Assistant, WhatsApp, video calls, and streaming media services....

Co-watching, as the company calls it, essentially makes it possible to pull up any post directly in group video chats. Once in a conference call, all you need to do is click the Posts icon at the bottom of your screen, and select the post you want to share. It’ll then show up for everyone else in the video chat. Here’s what it looks like: [Read: How to host an online Netflix binge with friends] Look, I’ve personally never video-called anyone on Instagram, so I doubt I’ll use this feature....

We’ll talk about some of these features, but first, you should go to Settings > General and tap on Software update to download iOS 14. It might take a few minutes to download and install the update, so make sure your phone is either plugged in or charged sufficiently. The most important change iOS 14 brought was the introduction of widgets and App Library. The App Library acts as an equivalent of app drawer in Android, so you don’t have to keep pages and pages of apps on your screen....

Hola Earthlings, A few months back, when our beards were shorter and our fuses were longer, we collectively took solace in Netflix’s “Tiger King” and Nintendo’s Animal Crossings: New Horizons. Remember that? Those were simpler times. We identified with the tigers in their cages – not only were they locked up, but somehow the damn tigers ended up being extras in a show with the word “Tiger” in its name....

The world’s most popular cryptocurrency was the correct answer for the category’s $800 question: “A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 city of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them.” Contestant James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, answered it successfully. — Kim Nash (@knash99) January 10, 2020 The question refers to an unfortunate situation in 2018, when the City of Atlanta paid more than $2.6 million to unlock computer systems held by hackers for a $52,000 Bitcoin ransom....