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A dad from Vietnam,Truong Van Dao, built his son an electric, kid-sized wooden Lamborghini Sian Roaster, fully capable of hitting the streets! And it’s unbelievably cool! This ultra-cute Lamborghini is made of wood from discarded trees and has a small electric motor that enables it to reach 25km/h. It’s difficult to select the best of its extraordinary features, but here are my favorites: colorful speedometer screen display, LED lights, and even scissor doors....

MicrolenderKivajust released this video called ‘Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance,’ which charts the donors and recipients of five years worth of microloans using their lending platform. The video visualizes data in different colors to represent different loan types, such as agriculture, education, food, health, retail and services. More than 620,000 lenders have funded more than 615,00 borrowers since 2005, with$240 millionchanging hands. Kiva microloans can be very small sums, as low as $20 in some cases, and enable the recipients to buy a mobile phone, for instance, and charge a nominal markup to their community for the ability to place calls....

Marking what would be the 65th birthday of the late Queen lead vocalistFreddie Mercury, Google has created an animated Google Doodle paying tribute to the man who entertained millions and continues to today. Clicking on the play button on the doodle of Google’s homepage on Monday reveals the video below taking you briefly through the life of a music legend. Clicking it again sends you to Google search results for his name....

The sprawling cityscapes of Grand Theft Auto V have been given an AI-powered makeover that makes the game’s online world look almost photorealistic. Researchers at Intel Labs transformed the graphics by training convolutional networks on real-world images. The network then applied the style of the training data to rendered images from the game. In one example, the team trained the model on the Cityscapes dataset, a collection of urban street scenes recorded primarily in Germany....

I’m going to tell you this entire story in one sentence, because that’s all it deserves. Earlier this week, local reporters in California got another look at Elon Musk’s 1.5 mile long, $52 million, Las Vegas “Loop” that was supposed to be a total transport revolution, and it turns out that it’s still nothing more than a really expensive hole through the terra firma in which humans drive cars quite slowly....