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2021 has been a year of spinning wheels and electrified hill climbs as sales and investment in ebikes have soared. We talked toCowboyco-founder/CEO Adrien Roose about the industry’s potential in the coming year. Ebikes are going high tech This year we saw ebike software evolve, with Bosch releasing the white label ​​Bosch eBike Systemsand their eBike Flow app. We also sawAdvanced Driver-Assistance Systems(ADAS) monitoring used in safety applications to help riders understand what’s behind them and in their blind spots as they ride....

About 45 minutes away from the Denver airport, there is an island in the middle of Colorado. Not by the literal, geological definition, but Boulder is an island in almost every other sense of the word. It is about as far removed from the rest of Colorado as you could get in both its attitude and focus, oh and it’s surrounded by a swath of land on which nobody is allowed to build, which has affectionately become known as “the moat”....

As wereportedearlier, LulzSec says that it has bowed out of the limelight for good after fifty days of headline-grabbing hacking of corporate and governmental targets. Along with its final statement, it released a data dump including a wide range of information. We’ve downloaded it, so what’s inside? We’re not going into details here, simply providing an overview of what LulzSec has released. AOL:While you may have been secretly hoping for some juicy memos akin to The AOL Way, what we actually have is a text file that begins: “The purpose of this document is to provide the AOL Network Engineering Staff, Management and any other pertinent persons a detailed review, analysis and recommended ‘best practices’ document for the implementation of layer 4 through 7 switching configurations....

Robotic vehicles have been used in dangerous environments for decades, from decommissioning theFukushima nuclear power plantor inspectingunderwater energy infrastructurein the North Sea. More recently, autonomous vehicles fromboatstogrocery delivery cartshave made the gentle transition from research centers into the real world with very few hiccups. Yet the promised arrival of self-driving cars has not progressed beyond the testing stage. And in one test drive of an Uber self-driving car in 2018,a pedestrian was killedby the vehicle....

Elon MuskandUberhave both made claims that there’d be millions of driverless taxis on our roads by now and, well, there aren’t. Most of us will have to wait a lot longer before we can take a ride in a one, but thanks to the wonders of the internet we can get a pretty good idea of what the experience is like right now. It’s important to note that true, fully autonomous vehicles do not exist....