Considering this feature has been in other map apps for a while, it’s good that Apple has finally got on board with making navigating by bicycle simpler and more practical. [Read: It’s official: Apple CarKey exists — and the BMW 5 Series gets first dibs] According to The Verge, when planning a bicycle route, users will be able to see elevation changes, and choose whether to ride around hills or take flights of stairs to save time on their journey....

The report notes the company will also offer a free trial, so you can get a taste of the service at no charge. Apple had announced 14 shows during the Apple TV+ unveil; it will launch some of them on day one, and add more shows from that roster later. A report published by the Financial Times last night said the Cupertino-based company has already spent over $6 billion to produce its original shows....

Apple has been taking gaming more seriously the past few years, highlighting games in the App Store and improving its devices’ graphics performance. It even announced a gaming subscription service called Arcade earlier this year. Problem is, the Apple TV’s remote isn’t exactly suited to gaming. Hence why today’s announcement is welcome. Then again, you could argue the fact that Apple is supporting third-party remotes without announcing its own suggests the company still sees gaming as a secondary function of its devices....

Is Air Power Blowing Over the Horizon? At the moment, the most viable mode of sustainable transportation is an electric vehicle (EV). With more and more automakers announcing new EV designs every year, it’s reasonable to believe that EVs are here to stay. However, some automakers are exploring different forms of green energy — specifically, wind. Are wind-powered cars a possibility, or are they something that’s likely to stay in the realm of science fiction?...

This technology, called forensic “DNA phenotyping”, can reveal a surprising and growing amount of highly personal information from the traces of DNA that we all leave behind, everywhere we go – including information about our gender, ancestry, and appearance. Queensland police have already used versions of this approach to identify a suspect and identify remains. Forensic services in Queensland and New South Wales have also investigated the use of predictive DNA....

The developers revealed the news on the official Battleborn Twitter, saying that the game will become unplayable on January 2021. Once that happens, it won’t be playable in anyway — no single-player, no nothing. On February 24, 2020, players won’t be able to purchase Platinum, the premium virtual currency, though they can still grind for it in-game. — Battleborn (@Battleborn) November 25, 2019 Poor old Battleborn. Had Gearbox released this hero-based FPS any time other than when it did — or rather, had it be released before we ever heard of Blizzard’s Overwatch — it might have cleaned house....

Ironically, the officer of the law isn’t very clear on the social media site’s rules. But we’ll get to that in a bit. Background: This story comes to us from Vice’s Dexter Thomas via the Instagram account of one Sennett Devermont, the citizen on the receiving end of the cop’s silly attempt to game the system. Credit: Instagram In the post linked above, we can see video of Sergeant Fair employing the old crank up the music so you can’t hear your parents yelling at you to clean your room tactic as soon as Devermont starts asking too many questions....

Cryptocurrencies nosedived on Friday after China’s central bank declared that all crypto-related transactions are illegal and must be banned. “Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,” the People’s Bank of China said on its website (via Google Translate). The bank added that digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum “are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market.” The announcement caused cryptocurrencies to tumble....

According to the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, Jon Barry Thompson took more than $7 million from two victim companies after making false claims in connection with Bitcoin transactions. “As alleged, Jon Barry Thompson repeatedly lied to investors in cryptocurrencies about the safety of their investments made through his companies. As a result of Thompson’s lies, investors lost millions of dollars,” Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S....

In fact, the NASDAQ 100 index — a popular benchmark that tracks the market performance of the US’ largest tech companies — is actually positive for the year; it’s up more than 6% while the broader S&P 500 index is down by a similar amount. We wondered: how did Bitcoin compare to top-tier companies like Intel, PayPal, or Tesla as COVID-19 swept across the world? To help visualise this, Hard Fork built the bar chart race below....

With many financial institutions assuming a wait-and-see posture as the world recovers from the COVID-19 economic fallout, there’s one group that seems to be embracing Wall Street’s current uncertainty with gusto: the retail investor. According to global market maker Citadel Securities, these amateur stock traders are currently fueling about 20 percent of the stock market activity, up from only 10 percent last year. Those findings show a place for the lone, savvy investor in today’s financial markets....

Jaguar has vowed to pivot away from combustion engines entirely, and will be a fully electric brand within five years. See us reimagine the future of modern luxury. Over the next five years, @LandRover will welcome six all-electric variants and @Jaguar will undergo a renaissance as a pure electric luxury brand.https://t.co/EcJzaiSk9Y pic.twitter.com/Lp1DdKeuBB — Jaguar Land Rover (@JLR_News) February 15, 2021 However, Land Rover will unveil six all-electric vehicles by 2025, which will be offered alongside its current range....

The team, consisting of Neguine Rezaii of Harvard Medical School and Emory School of Medicine, and Elaine Walker and Philipp Wolff from Emory University’s Department of Psychology, set out to see if there was any way to use language as an indicator of impending latent onset psychosis. They developed a machine learning method that looks for specific indicators long thought associated with psychosis, especially schizophrenia. The team then spent two years observing study volunteers, a significant portion of whom ended up demonstrating psychotic break (the first experience of a fully psychotic episode)....

Lincolnshire Police will be able to use the system to search the film for certain moods and facial expressions, the London Times reports. It will also allow cops to find people wearing hats and glasses, or carrying bags and umbrellas. The force has got funding from the Home Office to test the tool in the market town of Gainsborough, but ethical concerns have delayed the pilot’s launch. A police spokesperson told the Times that all the footage will be deleted after 31 days....

In the modern paradigm, one of your company’s greatest assets is the data generated by your employees, clients, and customers. And, sadly, most businesses are leaving money on the table by simply storing that data away somewhere to collect digital dust. The problem: How do you audit your company’s entire data ecosystem, deploy models to identify and infer actionable items, and turn those insights into positive business outcomes? The solution: vertical intelligence....

Business travel via helicopter is not just about covering long distances in a short amount of time. At times, it is about arriving at a corporate event a bit quicker and easier. It is why this form of transportation is getting more and more popular because helicopter can also help with travel efficiency even on shorter business trips. The last thing you want on your business trip is wasting time and being in stressful situations....

Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Some updates from us: Cara and Gigi are watching Normal People and haven’t emotionally recovered, Anouk is yet to watch it but we’re working on it: Each month, our gloriously gifted designer, Saïna, illustrates a weird comment or tweet we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic, or just funny, readers. This month… drum roll, pleeeeeease… There were no shitty comments?...

The patent, which was granted on January 12, outlines a method of using audio signals picked up by a microphone to infer the user’s mood and social setting. It also details ways of identifying their age, accent, and gender by analyzing their voice. The campaigners say the tech is “dangerous, a violation of privacy and other human rights, and should not be implemented by Spotify or any other company.” [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] In an open letter, the coalition of over 180 musicians and human rights organizations called for the streaming giant to publically commit to never use, license, sell, or monetize the system....

By: Todd Feathers Driven to cyberspace by the pandemic, courts across the country purchased chatroom-like tools designed to help people resolve disagreements without the need for a full-on lawsuit, judge, or hearing. Online dispute resolution, as it’s known, had already been growing in popularity as a means to make often costly, slow-moving court processes more efficient. The tools, pioneered by eBay and PayPal, were designed to settle millions of disputes in their own businesses quickly and with as little need for human oversight as possible....

High-quality offline content is great if you have a home server and almost every movie, show, and song in the world. But you’re not gonna sit and download everything that is out there. That’s right. The second generation of Fire Stick with Alexa-enabled voice remote is available in a nifty package with a second generation of Echo Dot. Once you pair up these devices, you won’t have to worry about the times when you don’t have your remote handy....