Meet the Sport Utility Scooter One (SUS1): Maybe its unusual aesthetics aren’t everyone’s cup of tea (I’m personal intrigued by how it kinda looks like an origami duck), but I think you’ll find the concept behind its creation quite brilliant. The SUS1 was manufactured with a process called “industrial origami.” Like the Japanese art of folding paper into the most surprising objects, industrial origami is when sheets of cold-rolled stainless steel are folded into three-dimensional shapes, using lasers and robotic arms....

The electric motorcycle has reignited an optimism in design the likes of which we haven’t seen in over a century. The very structure of the motorcycle we’ve come to know is largely rooted in its function, a fuel tank gravity feeding gasoline to an internal combustion engine. As is often the case, the evolution of technology is redrawing the boundaries of expression and those of us who love the motorcycle are enjoying our front row seat of the renaissance....

BitcoinSalaries sources the yearly salaries of pro athletes and then converts the amount into Bitcoin based on the latest exchange rates – as simple as that. The site also has a separate “Into crypto?” category, which shows if the athletes have previously done any business with cryptocurrency. FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, for instance, ticks off that category, as he previously shilled Sirin Labs’ $1,000 blockchain phone on Instagram and Facebook....

Your phone, your home and your appliances have been getting smart for years, so it’s probably about time for your personal defense to get an upgrade too, right? While the idea of smart pepper spray may immediately sound like one of those silly Saturday Night Live parody commercials, Plegium Smart Pepper Spray is actually very real — and it’s kinda brilliant. Right now, it’s $10 off the regular price, just $39 from TNW Deals....

We all take it for granted that when we flip on a light switch or fire up a space heater or hit the button on our garage door opener that the power will be there to handle the task. With more vital systems of every kind running on digital networks these days, that puts an even greater dependency on the resources of our local power grids — and opens the door to even greater disaster when that power supply fails....

If you thought all that time spent indoors over the past year probably prompted many people with IT aspirations to bone up on key disciplines and get certified…well, you’re pretty bright. That’s exactly what happened. According to a survey, certification exams were up 16 percent in 2020, with 30 percent of those students saying the pandemic motivated their new learning. Meanwhile, over 90 percent of respondents said certification increased their confidence, 86 percent said they’d be pursuing more certifications, and 28 percent report they’d earned a pay raise for their new abilities....

The first point is something we’ve covered before. For a myriad of reasons (read: the pandemic, supply chain issues, and the lifespan of previous consoles), we’ve yet to see many true AAA next-gen games appear on the Series X. This though, is already changing with titles like Flight Simulator and the upcoming Forza Horizon 5. But something that could really drive the Series X and S upwards is a fully functional Xbox media mode....

But for me, there’s no series more influential than the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games. It all started when the demo for the PC version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 was released back in 2000. Initially my friends and I didn’t know what to make of this weird little game, but something about its style, its punk rock soundtrack, and its freeform gameplay reeled us in. We couldn’t stop hopping and grinding around the demo’s Marseille level, discovering new ways to combine our tricks and crafting new lines around the skatepark....

My childhood creation has been around a while. Drones came first, of course, but like all things men touch, it was really only a matter of time before we experimented with adding dangerous things to the business end of one. In this case it was a flamethrower, but it’s fair to say we’ve dabbled a bit. There’s a drone with a chainsaw attached, for example. I witnessed it fly during the “Drone Rodeo” one year at CES — but only after our former social media maven, Esther, and I got lost in the desert trying to find it....

The microblogging service said it suspended “a number of accounts” as part of its efforts to curb various methods of platform manipulation, including “spam and other inauthentic behaviors.” “Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives or we make errors. We apologize,” the company’s Public Policy handle tweeted. — Twitter Public Policy (@Policy) June 1, 2019 Twitter and other social media platforms are blocked in mainland China under the country’s censorship system, colloquially known as the Great Firewall....

Twitter is providing two distinct labels: If you click on one of the labels, you’ll be redirected to an article explaining the policy. To start, Twitter is only applying labels from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. The company plans to expand to “a wider range of countries” in the future. Somewhat confusingly, the company also says that it currently isn’t labeling ” the personal accounts of heads of state, as these accounts enjoy widespread name recognition, media attention, and public awareness....

Twitter crypto scammers are now targeting Moonbirds NFTs, a project by entrepreneurs Kevin Rose and Ryan Carson. It’s a collection of 10,000 pixelated owls that have raked millions in sales within days. Scammers trying to get some money off successful NFT projects is a recurring theme now. Last month, they were successful in stealing NFTs worth more than $500,000 from Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) owners....

The ride-hailing company announced a partnership today with Walmart-owned ecommerce giant Flipkart in the country to deliver essential goods to customers in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Last week, Uber unveiled several such deals with retails chains and grocery delivery startups such as BigBasket and Spencer’s Retail. [Read: How Ford Australia is solving car-servicing during coronavirus pandemic] Last month, India’s largest cab-hailing platforms, Uber and Ola, both halted their services in several cities after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus....

First off, UE? UE, or Ultimate Ears (sigh), are an American audio company owned by Logitech. I’ve been a huge fan of its equipment for some time, especially the UE Boom range. And if I was going to sum up their hardware? It’d be as ‘reasonably-priced, well-designed, and exciting-sounding.’ So… the Wonderboom 2? As the name suggests, the Wonderboom 2 is the second device in the Wonderboom range. Basically, it’s a small, spherical Bluetooth speaker that hovers around the $100 mark....

The project, led by Midlands Future Mobility, is building the route to include 300 km (190 miles) of roads around the University of Warwick, Coventry, Solihull, and central Birmingham, Coventry Live reports. [Read: Engineer finds Tesla Model 3 is secretly equipped with hardware for powering homes] It should give autonomous vehicles a mix of urban, rural, suburban, and motorway roads to navigate. It will also take in important transport hubs including Birmingham International Airport and the new High-Speed 2 rail network Hub....

Onfido, an Oxford University spin-out, launched the software amid surging identity fraud. Growing economic pressures, increasing digitization, and pandemic-fuelled upheaval recently led politicians to warn that a “fraud epidemic” is sweeping across Onfido’s home country of the UK. Similar developments have been observed around the world. In the US, for instance, around 49 million consumers fell victim to identity fraud in 2020 — costing them a total of around $56 billion....

“We’ve been very consistent in saying we think the digital services tax is discriminatory in nature against digital companies, and specifically a handful of US companies,” Mnuchin told reporters attending a G20 meeting in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. “The president was clear that we were proceeding with […] reciprocal tariffs.” [READ: Here’s how much money you made Google by staring at its ads for 20 years] It’s a move that most finance leaders of major economies in the G20 support: A global effort to make it more difficult for companies to shift profits (and tax-paying responsibilities) to subsidiaries in havens like Ireland and Luxembourg, while increasing tax transparency across the board....

William Green, 46, who was charged with one count of operating the unlicensed business, is set to appear before a United States District Judge although no date has been set yet. According to documents filed and statements heard in court, Green’s business was “Destination Bitcoin,” a website that allowed him to convert customers’ fiat deposits into Bitcoin in exchange for a fee. Unfortunately for Green, US federal law says that any individual who owns or controls a money transmitting business must register it with the Secretary of the Treasury – including ones that sell Bitcoin for cash....

Yesterday, the US Senate Commerce Committee rejected Republican Senator John Thune’s proposal to attach measures lifting regulations on autonomous vehicles (AVs) to a $78 billion surface transportation bill, Reuters reports. Thune has suggested granting to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the power to exempt a large number of autonomous vehicles per manufacturer from safety standards written with human drivers in mind. The senator has argued that self-driving vehicles could enhance road safety by eliminating human error, especially in respect to distracted or impaired drivers....

The freebie covers regular 4G LTE phone usage, hotpot usage, and Verizon’s ‘Jetpack’ dedicated hotspots. It’s not clear from the announcement whether customers with a fancy 5G phone should disable 5G for the additional benefit. I’d assume the phones would switch to 4G LTE should they hit their typical data alotment. Though Verizon offers unlimited data plans as well and capped ones, these come with limits on how much they can use at full speed, and how much they can use for hotspots....