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Having successfully completed the first two phases of the project (partner collaboration and powertrain prototype), the British motorcycle maker has now finalized phase three — the prototype REVEAL. Feast your eyes on this sleek machine: While the TE-1 prototype carries the Triumph name, it’s not all Triumph’s own work. Sure, the company took care of the bodywork, the cockpit, and transmission, and braking systems, but it relied on its partners for the essentials....

Earlier this month, we reported that Twitter is rolling out a ‘schedule tweet’ option to some users. Now, the social network is making the feature available for all desktop users, so you can set tweets to be published at a time of your choosing. The company said that apart from scheduling, it will also allow users to it will also let you save drafts of your tweets in the web app....

Twitter told The Verge that it’s proactively reaching out to people who haven’t logged in for over six months, in accordance with its inactive account policy. The company hasn’t said when unused accounts will become available to the public again, other than noting the removal process “will happen over many months.” It’s not clear how the company will deal with people who used to use Twitter but then stopped, but from the sounds of it those messages might be lost....

Once it’s been tested in various Latin American cities, Uber has plans to roll out the feature in the US, which will eventually allow drivers to automatically record all rides, while passengers can opt in to activate the feature through the app’s Safety Toolkit prior to their ride. Neither driver or passenger will be notified when the feature has been activated, although passengers will be warned before their ride that it may be recorded for safety reasons....

“We continue to believe drivers are properly classified as independent, and because we’ll continue to be responsive to what the vast majority of drivers tell us they want most — flexibility — drivers will not be automatically reclassified as employees, even after January of next year,” the company said in a statement. The state’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) is expected to disrupt the gig economy as we know it, and will ensure drivers and delivery people working at companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are entitled to minimum wage, workers’ compensation, and other benefits....

Some experts believe aliens are waiting for us to develop more advanced AI before they reveal themselves. Others think aliens gave us our current AI technology. And still others theorize that space aliens are AIs. Let’s see how these ideas hold up to some very light scrutiny. Happy UFO Day The US government will be issuing an official report on 25 June covering declassified data on 120 UFO sightings from the past two decades....

The system uses a machine learning algorithm to predict which low-level offenders on a database of 200,000 criminals are likely to commit “high harm” crimes in the future. Risk scoring is already used operationally to assess the probability of individuals reoffending. The new system “seeks to do so in a far more rigorous and reliable way,” reads the minutes from a 2019 meeting of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner’s Ethics Committee....

The two drivers want to prove the ride-hailing company does more than just neutrally distribute taxi ride requests, Dutch outlet NOS reports. The case will be heard in Amsterdam, where the company’s European head office is located. “They want to prove that Uber acts as an employer,” their lawyer, Anton Ekker, told NOS. “To do that, they need everything Uber knows about them and what Uber’s algorithms do with it....

Urbanista’s new Los Angeles headphones are solar-powered, so they can rightfully be called wireless headphones. At $199, they promise to never need to be connected so long as you have access to light — sunlight or otherwise. This is despite the fact that they feature active noise cancelation and ambient sound modes, features that use additional power over basic audio playback alone. Urbanista teamed up with Exeger, another Swedish company, for its Powerfoyle solar technology....

Several US banking giants are implementing AI cameras to analyze customer preferences, track what staff are doing, and observe activities around their premises, Reuters reports. The tools are being used for a variety of purposes. Wells Fargo is leveraging the tech to prevent fraud, while City National plans to deploy facial recognition near ATMs as authentication methods. JPMorgan, meanwhile, has been using computer vision to analyze archive footage of customer behavior....

This makes for two big particularly big annoyances. For one, you can’t leave the bike in a garage or storage room and charge the battery at home. For another, you can’t quickly swap the battery with an extra one for longer rides, should you decide to get out of town for a while or simply take an extra-long route. VanMoof’s new $348 PowerBanks offer respite for both of these problems....

Viveport Infinity is a system-agnostic VR subscription service offering hundreds of games and apps for a $12.99 monthly fee. Now that it’s added the Quest, it supports every major headset including Rift, Rift S, Index, and Windows Mixed Media devices. Infinity is the best bargain in VR gaming thanks to its diverse lineup. At launch my biggest complaint was that the VR field only had a handful of hit AAA titles and the majority of them weren’t available on Infinity....

I mean, what other way is there to explain why Vizio has enabled a feature on its TVs that display banner adverts over live shows? Named ‘Jump Ads,’ the idea is a visual overlay appears during a television spot, which then pushes users towards the series on an app available on Vizio’s devices. For example, imagine catching the premiere of a new comedy on a TV channel. At the end of this episode a banner appears, encouraging you to visit a streaming service to watch the next entry in the series....

What’s happening VW and BP will work together to deploy 18,000 new ultra fast chargers in Europe, but it hasn’t said by when. It seems the chargers will be added at bp and Aral sites in the UK and Germany to begin with, BP said in an announcement. VW says it will integrate BP’s charging tech into its vehicles so that finding and paying for charging is easy and simple. The points will also be open to the wider non-VW driving public as part of the BP and Aral pulse charging networks....

“This legislation represents a significant breakthrough — the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith wrote in a blog post. But why is Microsoft so happy about new tech restrictions coming to its own home state? Probably because the company helped create them. Microsoft lobbied hard for the bill, which was sponsored by own of its own employees: State senator Joe Nguyen, a senior program manager at the software giant....

Trey Parker and Matt Stone teamed up with British comedian Peter Serafinowicz for the weekly series. It’s hosted by Fred Sassy, a consumer advocate and reporter for a local TV station in Cheyenne, Wyoming who’s “Taking the blindfold OFF of Justice!” The first 15-minute episode explores the dangers of deepfakes and some slightly dubious methods of detecting them. “Scammers are finding new ways to take advantage of you — the consumer,” the familiar-looking Sassy warns....

Shiryaev spent months using machine learning to colorize, upscale, and enhance a collection of films by the French cinema pioneers. He began by using an algorithm developed by his company, Neural Love, to remove duplicate frames from the footage and restore the film’s original frame rate. “This is a crucial step to achieve the effect of fluid movement when we do a version of the video at 60 frames per second (fps),” Shiryaev explained on YouTube....

After a series of prototypes and “more than 1,500” test flights, the company has developed the full-size pre-production prototype of its air taxi — named VoloCity. On Wednesday, Volocopter released footage of VoloCity’s maiden flight, which you can watch on the video above. The flight, which took place in December 2021, shows the aircraft taking off, hovering above the ground for one minute, and then successfully landing, remotely piloted by the operators with no people onboard....

But what does the latest research say about how effective they are? Fitness trackers are trendy Currently, about one in five Australians own one of these wearables, and about a quarter use a mobile app or website to monitor their activity levels and health. And sales are predicted to grow over the next five years. The landscape of the market is fast changing. For years, Fitbit and Garmin were the market leaders....

No joke, I go on Etsy every single day. I browse Instagram as much as any other person, but when that becomes tiresome, I open up Etsy to casually scroll. I think what makes me come back to it repeatedly, without being triggered by a notification or alert, is that there’s a mix of finding what I’m looking for and being surprised and delighted with things I wasn’t expecting. Nir Eyal talks about the importance of the surprise and delight model (as related to Pinterest) in his book ‘Hooked....