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Range anxiety isn’t just an issue for electric car drivers —electricbikeriders suffer from it too. That’s a bit of a problem if we want ebikes to serve as veritable car replacements, as too often consumers have to choose between an affordable, lightweight ebike and something with more range. Barring dramatic advancements in battery technology, this isn’t likely to change anytime soon. But there’s another way to deal with this problem: every ebike should let you latch on an extra battery....

Multitouch completely changed the input game and ushered in the shift from physical keys to touchscreen devices. A Japanese R&D firm is taking “touch” a notch higher by developing a new device that can detect all five fingers for input for a complete hand recognition. “Amenbo” is Double Research & Development Co’s latest input device, which can sense the movements and pressure of each finger, and can even detect full hand motions....

Theleakof AOL’s plan to ramp up content production across its network of blogs and news sites via a method called “The AOL Way” stirred up a strong negative reaction yesterday. However, the fact is that it’s little more than an evolution of what’s been happening for years. A brief recap: AOL is busy training up its staff in “The AOL Way” – a plan to increase the number of stories per month from 33,000 to 55,000 and average pageviews per story from 1,500 to 7,000....

Yes, we’re at that point previous to the announcement of the next iPhone where everyone starts posting every crazy photoshop job that claims to be an iPhone 5 spy shot. I don’t necessarily blame people for being excited, heck, we’re all incredibly jazzed here at TNW to see what Apple has cooked up for its next iPhone too. But at some point, if you’re going to post obviously fake shots of ‘the next iPhone’, just go ahead and say it outright....

Michael Jackson fans, rejoice — I think. Where once you may have had to cough up around $196 (USD) to attend the Michael Jackson Tribute Concert in London’s Millennium Stadium, you now only have to spend $3.99 for advance tickets to view the livestream via Facebook. Though I haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly where this information comes from,AllThingsDreports this might be true. “F-commerce” companyMilyoni, a company that converts your Facebook Fans into paying customers, is supposedly allowing MJ fans to dish out $4....