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Fat tire e-bikes have become synonymous with rugged adventure. Browse the category and you’d think every 20-inch fat tire bike is destined for sandy beaches, forest trails, or rocky singletrack. In reality, though, most of them spend their lives on city streets, bike paths, and neighborhood roads.

That’s what makes the Batch Bicycles eFT.3 refreshing. Instead of pretending to be an off-road machine, it embraces what many riders are actually looking for: a comfortable, practical commuter that happens to ride on fat tires.

Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for answers in a letter last week about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under the Trump administration.
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EVG reader David H. shares this recent photo of a juvenile red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park...

“AI kill switch” entered the public conversation because it gives people a simple way to talk about a complex fear. 

The post The “AI kill switch” assumes you know what you are trying to shut down appeared first on The New Stack.

Julia Azari: “We might be approaching peak electability season. Traditionally, there’s a bit of a lull before the general election campaigns really kick off, and there are a few more primaries to go. Abdul El-Sayed won the primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, and Francesca Hong seems likely to win the Democratic nomination for governor […]

“Mitch McConnell’s D.C. home has drawn plenty of eyeballs during his mysterious weeks-long absence… and it turns out there really was a Senator living there the whole time — just not Mitch,” TMZ reports. It appears Sen. Thom Tillis “has been renting a carriage house on McConnell’s property after selling his condo in March — […]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced early this morning that she will oppose Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, leaving the nomination with virtually no margin for error. With Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) still absent from the Senate while recovering from a fall, Blanche can afford to lose only one more Republican vote.  And Sen. Bill […]

Russell Dickerson put Shania Twain on his country music Mount Rushmore and fully admitted it was a controversial call. Continue reading…

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

Trump: It's a mistake to be against data centers. I don't think they're unsightly. They're the most incredible buildings I've ever seen

Trump: A lot of people are very angry at Republicans. But they're not angry at me

Q: Why are Republicans down on the generic ballot? Trump: Nobody understands it. The president in power always loses. It's the craziest thing. Even if you did a great job as president, they seem to lose.

Trump on the Fed: "Now it's all becocked"

Q: You said yesterday gas prices might go up again Trump: That's only if I have to do another hit

A ten-month Antarctic experiment found that astronauts may struggle not only with loneliness but also with spending too much time around the same people. Frequent contact was linked to greater tension and mistrust, while the crew increasingly divided into cultural and language-based groups.

Linus Pauling was widely mocked for claiming that vitamin C could fight cancer, especially after trials using vitamin C pills showed no benefit. Researchers now know that intravenous vitamin C reaches vastly higher concentrations and can behave more like an experimental cancer drug than an ordinary supplement. Early studies suggest it may damage vulnerable cancer cells, reduce treatment side effects, and possibly improve outcomes for some patients.

Blocking the glycine transporter SLC6A20 restored important brain signaling and improved social, communication, and repetitive behaviors in autism-related mouse models. The treatment also worked in human brain organoids and showed lasting effects in adult mice, suggesting the brain may remain more treatable later in life than previously thought.

Scientists have demonstrated that heat can move through a crystal in focused, wave-like rays at room temperature instead of spreading randomly. The breakthrough could make it possible to route heat around sensitive parts of next-generation chips and quantum devices.

The U.S. economy is officially losing jobs. From lost manufacturing to higher costs, the economic failures of the Trump administration keep piling up. There’s no way to spin these dismal results, because Americans know they’re paying the price every day. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.