I once called my toddler son impersonating “The Fat Controller” character from Thomas the Tank Engine to congratulate him on a successful poop. Imagine how motivating a $25 personalized Cameo Kids video would have been!
Thomas Ricker

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Twitter has about 250 million active users on any given day, but six times as many accounts have no tweets or recent logins. I just hope Musk releases them “soon” as in Christmas, not “soon” as in a fully-autonomous vehicles.
Don Draper did it long before Silicon Valley companies like Google turned sleeping at the office into a competition. Some see such dedication as misguided, others a badge of honor.
I’d occasionally sleep in our crummy NYC office when helping to launch The Verge. Twitter 2.0 is a luxury hotel, by comparison, with slippers, alarm clock, a wardrobe, and washing machine, according to the BBC.

InForest’s Swedish cabins are completely off the grid, relying on solar power, battery backup, and a limited amount of water. Living in one for a week required some compromises, but fewer than expected.
Verge alum Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton with another Platformer scoop. It’s supposedly starting this week, according to Elon Musk.
iPhone: BeReal, Apex Legends Mobile
iPad: GoodNotes 5, Moncage
Apple Watch: Gentler Streak
Mac: Inscryption
Apple TV: El Hijo
Apple Arcade: Wylde Flowers
Hit the link below to see the full list of 16 out of a possible 1.8 million.
[Apple Newsroom]
No it isn’t.
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The VF 8 starts at $41,000 with a $169/mo battery subscription, allowing it to significantly undercut the purchase price of competitors like the Tesla Model Y. Bloomberg has a good two-minute overview of the Vietnamese company and its Made-in-the-USA plan which starts in 2024.
47 percent of Europeans surveyed by Shimano now cite cost-of-living as the primary reason to use an e-bike in 2022, compared to 2021 when the primary motivator (39 percent) was avoiding covid on public transport. Government subsidies and increasing environmental concerns are also helping to spur the adoption of e-bikes, which already outsell regular bikes in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

