Polestar CEO doesn’t want the company’s first e-bike to be a ‘marketing stunt’

Image: Polestar Polestar is making its own e-bike. In a recent interview with The Verge, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath confirmed that the company was working on a battery-powered two-wheeler along with Sweden’s Allebike, with which it had previously worked on a Polestar-branded nonelectric mountain bike. But that said, Ingenlath said he is cognizant of how…

Apple Music’s year-end roundup is a little better this year

Image: Apple Best of 2022 lists and end-of-year recaps are just around the corner, including Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s flashy interactive feature that’s become an annual tradition that overtakes social media for a few solid days. Its main competitor, Apple Music, made some charts for listeners, too, and comes with some changes this time…

Traces of ancient hurricanes on the seafloor are a warning for coastal areas

Enlarge / Hundreds of persons returning to their flood-wrecked homes in New Orleans after 1965’s Hurricane Betsy. (credit: Bettman/Getty Images) If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise. The year 2020 had the most tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, with…

A massive data leak just cost Meta $275 million

Over 500 million users’ personal info was leaked online last year. Deposit Photos Yesterday, a security lapse from 2021 cost the Facebook’s parent company, Meta, approximately $275 million thanks to Irish regulators enforcing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a law passed in 2018 meant to better safeguard European consumers’ privacy. Last April, hackers…