Several years ago, snow in New Zealand’s Southern Alps turned red, and while many blamed wildfires at the time, new research uncovers the true culprit.
Why Snow in New Zealand’s Alps Turned an Alarming Shade of Red
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Intel Joins AMD And Apple As TSMC N2 Customer For Upcoming Nova Lake Chips
TSMC’s N2 (2nm) chip fab reportedly has a new customer: Intel, who joins the ranks of AMD and Apple tapping the Taiwanese fab goliath’s bleeding edge production lines. It’s not the first time that Intel and TSMC struck a deal, but it’s the first time the contract is for wafers etched with diminutive 2nm transistors.
The report from Economic
Amazon Deals Its Only Color Kindle For Lowest Price Ever, Read All About It
Are you still lugging around a backpack full of books whenever you travel? Hey, there’s something about the feel (and smell) of a physical book that simply can’t be duplicated by a e-reader, but on the flip side, e-readers are a heck of a lot more convenient. And you can save yourself a baggage fee at the airport. If the only thing that’s
Porsche 911 Spirit 70 Is A Sexy 1970s Retro Roadster You Have To See
Porsche has just announced the Spirit 70—a limited run 911 (based off of a GTS Cabriolet)—that hearkens to the, you guessed it, 1970s era. The car features retro elements that could make it quite desirable to collectors, such as the stretched 911 decal on the hood and return of Porsche’s Pasha checkerboard pattern throughout the interior,
Intel Core Ultra Boost Overclocking Tested: Solid Gaming Gains
We reported yesterday on Intel’s new Boost profile for its Core Ultra 200S processors. More accurately, it’s really the Core Ultra 200K processors, as the applicable chips are the Core Ultra 9 285K, the Core Ultra 7 265K, and the Core Ultra 5 245K, as well as their GPU-less “F” variants. We happen to have a Core Ultra 9 285K and a handy test
This bike has balls for wheels – and it’s become a viral sensation
A robotics expert has created a motorised bike that has balls instead of wheels.
James Bruton, based in Hampshire, has created what he calls an ‘omni-directional’ bike, which uses the same balls used by circus acrobats.
Bruton told the BBC his drive was to create videos people want to click on – and he has succeeded.
The YouTube video documenting how he built the bike has received 8.5m views since it was published three months ago on Bruton’s channel, which has 1.37m subscribers.
Bruton, who used to work in IT and was a toy maker before becoming a content creator, has previously built three other omni-directional bikes, which grew in complexity.
The first simply adapted a standard bike with a motorised ‘omni-wheel’ at the front, the second was a bike with two omni-wheels, and the third had four wheels and could move in any direction.
For his latest omni-directional bike, Bruton used 11 3D printers. He had to import motor parts from America and the 2ft balls from the Netherlands.
The bike uses omni-wheels, which are essentially wheels with smaller wheels around the edge, to drive each ball and prevent the bike from falling over.
Bruton’s description for the video documenting his invention says: “This bike balanced like a Segway sideways, and drives in all directions, which makes it the ultimate drift bike!”
Canyon’s new MPACT ebike is a wild concept I hope becomes reality
Canyon has unveiled its latest future concept from the Innovation Lab – the MPACT.
The new concept bike follows on from the Future Mobility Concept in 2021, but Canyon’s latest look into the future of e-mobility appears much closer to reality than most concept bikes.
I, for one, would like to see this concept made a reality.
The modular frame is intended to be produced from recycled aluminium in Europe to maximise the bike’s sustainability.
It would be available in one size to suit riders between 1.55m and 1.99m.
Customisable concept
The MPACT concept is designed to be customisable with artwork or decal kits on the single-spar frame.
It has modular luggage racks both front and rear, with the rear having a 25kg load capacity.
Canyon has designed the cockpit as a single piece, much like its line-up of road and commuter bikes.
However, the high-rise, almost cruiser-style bar has a boxy profile, like the frame itself, that gives the concept a fresh, bespoke look.
The brake hoses are routed through the handlebar and into the frame, as on Canyon’s production bikes.
The brakes on the concept are confirmed to be Canyon’s own GP0404 integrated units, as found on the current Precede: ON Comfort 7 urban electric bike.
The wheels also offer the potential for customisation, with the mountable/dismountable discs on the concept much like hubcaps on a car. This opens up the possibility of custom artwork, colours and finishes for the customer, or even branding for fleet bikes.
Electric motor and drivetrain
The frame also houses the motor and battery, with the battery charged by lifting the seatpost and pulling it out from its top tube housing.
The motor battery also powers the large front light integrated into the head tube of the frame, with a matching rear light integrated into the frame.
The drivetrain looks to be a hub gear, combined with a Gates belt drive, something we’ve seen on Canyon’s value-packed Comfort 7 commuter bike.
Will it get made?
This concept shares some of its design language with bikes such as Canyon’s innovative Precede:ON CF 9 commuter.
That said, there’s no commitment that the Canyon Innovation Lab concept bike will go into series production. If it does, the guide price would be under €3,000.
Canyon told us: “It’s different enough that we thought we’d canvas opinions from our audience to ask if we should bring it out.”
Let us know what you think of the MPACT in the comments.
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock is now available with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop shipping by default while still offering both Wayland and X11 session options. There is also now an official server edition of OpenMandriva…
Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM
Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.
EU Slaps Apple And Meta With $800M In Total Fines For DMA Violations
Apple and Meta have been hit with a combined fine of $800 million by the European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, over violations of the Digital Market Act (DMA). The DMA, which went into effect in 2023, is designed to promote fairness in competition among companies in the digital sector.
After one year of investigation, on Wednesday,
How To Set Color in Bash Script
Setting colors in your Bash scripts can significantly enhance the visual output, making it easier for users to follow along. In this article, we will explore how to set different colors in your Bash scripts to highlight information, errors, or simply to beautify the console output.
Instagram Goes Gunning For TikTok Creators With Its Own CapCut Rival
TikTok is the envy of every social media company. Its success has led to heavyweights in the space to borrow heavily from TikTok’s design and features in hopes of stealing away users. Meta’s latest attempt is a video editing app aimed at creators, which will compete directly with TikTok’s CapCut.
The new app, dubbed Edits, will enable content
Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For “3x Performance Regression” Affecting Nginx & Other Software
The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stumper at first even with the bisected commit, the issue was luckily resolved very quickly.
Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs
Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May…
“Ven-10” Route Details
Sony PlayStation 6 Rumors Swirl: Here’s Everything We Know So Far
Sony’s Playstation 5 Pro is not even a year old, but rumors for the inevitable PlayStation 6 have already begun to swirl. What’s perhaps most interesting about this latest rumor, is that it suggests there will be a handheld, portable released alongside the standard console. With the popularity of handheld systems such as Nintendo’s Switch
Hisense’s New U8 Mini LED TVs Up To 100″ Are Beauties, Some Are Already On Sale
It’s starting to feel like there’s a new TV lineup being launched each day. That makes it hard to keep up with fast-expanding field of options, but it’s also a good thing, in that the rapid release schedule by so many players leads to fierce pricing competition. Enter Hisense and its new U8 series available in a range of sizes from 55 inches
[$] VFS write barriers
In the filesystem track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Amir Goldstein wanted to resume
discussing
a feature that he had briefly introduced at the end of a 2023 summit session: filesystem “write
barriers”. The idea is to have an operation that would wait for any
in-flight write()
system calls, but not block any new write() calls as bigger
hammers, such as freezing the filesystem,
would do. His prototype implementation is used by a hierarchical
storage management (HSM) system to create a crash-consistent
change log, but there may be other use cases to consider. He wanted
to discuss implementation options and the possibility of providing an
API for user-space applications.
What is Docker Pull Command?
The Docker pull command is one of the essential commands that allows users to download container images from a registry to their local machine. This command is often the first step in the container deployment workflow, enabling developers to retrieve pre-built images before running containers. As part of the core set of Docker basic commands, understanding how to effectively use the docker pull command is essential for anyone working with containerized applications.
Apple’s iPhone 17 Air Looks Incredibly Svelte In Multiple Hands-On Videos
A popular tech leaker just dropped a video of a dummy Apple iPhone 17 Air being handled and admired by people at a phone store. The highly-anticipated Air is seen placed side-by-side with an iPhone 16 Pro, showing off its skinny lines. Note that the phone isn’t operational, but is a full metal demo unit that’s probably used for accessory makers