Tag: technology
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Mass killing by e-bike in NYC
This should make people think twice before allowing e-bikes to be stored in bike shops below apartments. What we desperately need are common sense e-bike control laws. Four people are dead and two more are critically injured after a fire broke out at an e-bike store in Lower Manhattan early Tuesday morning, New York Fire…
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Apple creates a strap-on… for your head. No… not that head.
Apple today announced the Apple Vision Pro. Another giant set of goggles to strap-on over your eyes all for the low low price of $3,500.00. I thought the failure of Google Glass, Microsoft Hololens, and Meta’s Oculus (now Quest I guess) should have shown Apple that no normal person wants to wear giant goggles around…
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A regular person’s review of the Google Pixel 7a
I finally ditched my Pixel 3 for the shiny new Pixel 7a. The switch came at a fortuitous time because I bricked my Pixel 3 by dropping it in a stream while hiking. It’s not the only reason I made the change. It so happened I purchased the Pixel 7 the day before I went…
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Why isn’t the existence we have enough?
Scott Adams tweeted a few things today about the “Simulation” and the Metaverse. What in the human brain causes us to seek out a higher power? Simulation or Metaverse it’s all religion to me. If you believe in either of those you may as well believe in the Tooth Fairy. What’s the point of believing…
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GM’s clean electric car powered by 90% coal
Which burns cleaner again? Gasoline or coal? Stick that in your charging socket and smoke it.
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How green is this EV?
Look at how fast this bus goes up in flames. Imagine if the battery was below the passenger deck. A lithium/ion battery made poorly is a bomb waiting to go off. Putting out that fire is not all that easy. I’m sure the fumes and smoke coming off that intense fireball is not all that…