Silent Film Directorturns your photos and videos into silent Charlie Caplin-style movies. The term “silent movie” doesn’t actually mean there’s no sound, in fact they often were scored with ragtime piano music. This app offers three soundtracks including two 20s-sounding piano scores and a movie projector that will add the noise of an old-style movie reel spinning. Users also have the option to choose a video from the device’s music collection....

Silent’ escooters forced to make artificial noise to warn UK pedestrians Safety concerns As the popularity of e-scooters has exploded in recent years, significant concerns have been raised about the safety of the devices, both for riders and pedestrians. A recentstudyby theInsurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)found that most e-scooter injuries occur on pavements and happen to inexperienced users, with a survey of 103 injured e-scooter riders at a Washington D....

A small Dutch company,E-magy, that specializes in designing and manufacturing porous silicon technologies is now working on creating a new silicon-based lithium-ionbatterythat would increase EV range,Trouwreports. As per Casper Peeters, the co-founder of E-magy, silicon-based lithium batteries live longer than their graphite-based alternatives. Silicon batteries have between 40 and 70% more capacity, he explained. This means that large EVs could have an 800km range, and the smaller electric vehicles just under 500km....

You’ve heard of Silicon Valley, and likelySilicon Alley, but have you heard of Silicon Prairie? Silicon Prairie is geographically hard to define but it’s there– somewhere between Chicago and Colorado, Dallas and the Dakotas–and it’s getting noticed because of one local news sourceSilicon Prairie News. And the Prairie’s entrepreneurs can thank one man, a native Nebraskan namedJeff Slobotski, who decided he wanted to write about the tech sector. After a few days of writing about California’s burgeoning scene, he decided to refocus his efforts on his own community....

Where do geeks go to blow off steam? A club founded by a software engineer, is a place where geeks from Silicon Valley can go to take some aggression out with their fists. The video created by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari titled “Uppercut”, gives you a look into the private world of a geek fight club, a club that aims to bring courage and strength to the participants involved....