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First Look: The Aper KOMPace Has “Rising Pivot Technology”

04/08/2024 avi maxwel

High-pivot bikes continue to prove popular, but most only provide a truly rearward axle path (their main selling point) during the first part of the travel. As the suspension gets deeper into its stroke, the axle starts to move vertically, and then often forwards slightly towards bottom-out. In theory, this reduces the ability to absorb square edge hits when already deep in the travel.

Aper is a startup bike brand from Greece, founded by two mechanical engineers, Nikos Lamprou and Giorgos Kostopoulos. Aper is Latin for wild boar, which roam the Erymanthus mountains in Greece near where the company is based. Their first bike, the KOMPace, is a 160 mm travel enduro bike with something they call “rising pivot technology”.

Suspension

The axle moves up and backwards throughout the whole travel range, thanks to a virtual pivot point that moves upwards and back as the suspension compresses. One of the

Blockchain Technology Revolutionizes The AI Landscape

02/08/2024 avi maxwel

A visitor watches an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign on an animated screen at the Mobile World … (+) Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona. (Photo by Josep LAGO / AFP) (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)

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The intersection of Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining traction, with blockchain technology playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI. As the world witnesses the exponential growth of AI, the need for decentralization, transparency, and democratization of AI resources has become more apparent than ever.

Industry experts are addressing the centralization issues in AI development by using blockchain technology to democratize access to AI resources, ensuring fair compensation for contributors, and allowing secure usage of proprietary data, aiming to reshape the AI space toward a more equitable future.

Democratizing Access To AI

One of the primary goals of decentralized AI

40 Years Ago, a Wild Sci-Fi Movie Predicted a Life-Changing Scientific Invention

29/07/2024 avi maxwel

Douglas Trumbull is best known as Hollywood’s special effects guru. From 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and 1982’s Blade Runner, he brought the fantastical visions of other writers and directors life. But in 1983, Trumbull tried making a movie of his own — and stumbled upon a bizarre branch of science that’s just now coming to fruition.

Brainstorm revolves around a pair of scientists — Drs. Michael Brace (Christopher Walken) and Lillian Reynolds (Louis Fletcher) — who engineer a revolutionary technology capable of recording someone’s thoughts, emotions, and sensations.

In what would likely raise eyebrows to an internal review board, the scientists and their lab members test the new technology among themselves. Brace, Reynolds, and others (including silver screen darling Natalie Wood, who plays Brace’s estranged wife Karen) share experiences and past memories, which are captured on something akin to a VHS tape and played through a headset to

This is the most consequential technology in America

27/07/2024 avi maxwel

(Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.)

You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage of Monday’s solar eclipse.

But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers. YouTube is the healthiest economy on the internet. And it has been rocket fuel for artificial intelligence.

I’m digging into YouTube’s identity because it’s essential to understand the influence of technologies in our lives. As popular as YouTube is, its power over the internet and us is somehow still underrated.

Let me try to persuade you that YouTube is the most consequential technology in America:

YouTube is No. 1 in video and music listening

YouTube might be best known for wasting a few minutes at a supermarket checkout or on the

29 Examples of Flawed Technology That Shouldn’t Exist

26/07/2024 avi maxwel

There’s tech for everything. Need your daily steps measured? No problem. Need to know exactly how much money you have in the bank? Got it. Need to hover 65 feet off the ground and shoot lasers for miles? Okay, we don’t have that one yet, but it’s most assuredly coming.

In what is clearly a transparent grab to get you to buy new stuff, companies are constantly rolling out fancy new gadgets and technology. But because of that push, we’re surrounded by tech that either needs to be retired or never should have been invented in the first place. Even the most decent product now comes with features that add nothing to its usefulness, or, even more annoyingly, actually make it worse.