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10 Best Electric Bikes (2020): Lightweight, Affordable, Folding, and More

ADRIENNE SO

We've tested ebikes for commuting, mountain biking, gravel, and even a few that can fold up. These are our favorites.

India Is Using More Solar Energy—but It Carries a Lead Risk

ANURADHA VARANASI

In rural areas, solar power is stored in lead batteries. If they aren't properly recycled, contamination can cause health problems.

Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent COVID-19 Spread

WIRED

Schools hope tracking beacons can identify where students congregate, who should be isolated.

'Dune' Is One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Ever

GEEK'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

Originally published in 1965, Frank Herbert's classic novel has continued to help shape works from Star Wars to 'Game of Thrones'.

Archaeologists Discover the Largest, Oldest Maya Monument Yet

KIONA N. SMITH, ARS TECHNICA

The structure, believed to have served as a ceremonial center 3,000 years ago, was discovered in Tabasco, Mexico.

This Week in Apps: Protests impact app stores, FTC fines app developer, kids’ app trends

SARAH PEREZ

This week we're taking a look at how the civil unrest and George Floyd protests played out across the app stores. The events led some apps to surge, and even break records.

Exploiting wormable flaw on unpatched Windows devices is about to get easier

DAN GOODIN

Once elusive, remote code execution is looking increasingly likely.

Indian online travel booking firm Yatra terminates merger deal with Ebix

MANISH SINGH

Indian online travel booking company Yatra has terminated a pending merger agreement with Atlanta-based software firm Ebix and filed a litigation seeking “substantial damages” over alleged breach of deal terms. In July last year, Ebix announced its plan to acquire Yatra, giving the Indian firm an enterprise value of $337.8 million, in a move to […]

WHO now recommends the public use masks—good masks—in COVID-19 areas

BETH MOLE

For homemade masks, you're probably doing it wrong, guidance suggests.

Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry

ERIC ELDON

The tech industry has generally wished that structural discrimination would go away, while pretending that it already has. But technology can be used by anyone for anything. And so, the world has watched video after video of police brutality against Black people in a real-time stream that plays through the closing days of quarantine, culminating […]

The F-word’s hidden superpower: repeating it can increase your pain threshold

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

Made-up swears like "fouch" or "twizpipe" just don't have the same effect.

These free tools easily blur protesters’ faces and anonymize photos

ZACK WHITTAKER

Millions have taken to the streets across the world to protest the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last month. Protesters have faced both unprecedented police violence and surveillance. Just this week, the Justice Department granted the Drug Enforcement Administration, an agency typically tasked with […]