Only days after a record-breaking performance at the 2022 USPA Raw Propowerlifter Jamal Browner might have just outdone himself with a new remarkable feat of strength. On Sept. 29, 2022,…
Month: September 2022
The 10 Best Dumbbell Exercises to Hit Your Lats
Even if you skipped Latin class or missed boarding school altogether, most lifters in the gym are familiar with their lats — the large, fan-shaped muscle that occupies most of…
Bot Hunting Is All About The Vibes
It’s Christopher Bouzy trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning models…
Robots and road users. As Starship robots carry out their… | by Ed Lovelock | Starship Technologies | Sep, 2022
As Starship robots carry out their deliveries, they may naturally need to cross a road. This will only be done in suitable — and pre-mapped — locations, but could be…
The Download: text-to-video AI, and China’s big methanol bet
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meta’s new AI can turn text…
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
Over the past eight years, a modified Boeing 747 jetliner has flown hundreds of flights on a unique mission: carrying a 19-ton, 2.5-meter telescope known as Sofia, or the Stratospheric…
Can we find ways to live beyond 100? Millionaires are betting on it.
But to test the same treatments in people, we’d need to run clinical trials for decades, which would be very difficult and extremely expensive. So the hunt is on for…
China is betting big on another gas engine alternative: methanol cars
Today, the leading company making methanol from carbon dioxide is Carbon Recycling International, an Icelandic company. Geely invested in CRI in 2015, and they have partnered to build the world’s…
How to Do the Hack Squat — Benefits, Variations, and More
When leg day rolls around, many lifters prioritize barbell exercises like squats and Romanian deadlifts. That’s a generally reliable approach for building size and strength, but an aversion to machine…
The Future of Climate Activism Is Intergenerational—and on TikTok
When it comes to changing minds, nothing beats an experience. That’s how Sylvia Earle sees it. The scientist has spent years trying to get people to understand the impacts of…