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Thomas Ricker

Thomas Ricker

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    Strava drops lawsuit against Garmin.

    No reason was given for Strava’s voluntary dismissal, three weeks after it attempted to block sales of Garmin devices due to alleged patent infringement.

    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    A better look at Rivian’s first e-bike.

    It’s due to be announced tomorrow by the company’s micromobility spinoff Also, with an initial focus on US and European audiences. You can read more over at Electrek.

    Photo: Adem Rudin (via Electrek)
    Photo: Adem Rudin (via Electrek)
    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    The Amazon robots replacing workers.

    As part of its explosive reporting on Amazon’s plan to curtail US employment through automation, the NYT published a companion piece on Sparrow, Cardinal, and Proteus — “the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.”

    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    Battery makers suck at Photoshop.

    It’s a universal truth that companies like EcoFlow, Jackery, Bluetti, and others produce the most ridiculous product renders for their big-ass batteries, making me wonder if they actually use them in the wild. Here’s a gallery of images I’ve collected so far.

    <em>Look at that tiny bike!</em>
    <em>The cable to the solar panels magically penetrates the window.</em>
    Good luck with that, dude.
    Fishing with your record collection, ok.
    <em>It’s so easy to carry 200 pounds of solar generator gear on a backpacking trip.</em>
    <em>This portable A/C built around a heat exchanger is not keeping this man cool.</em>
    <em>Not even close to being portable.</em>
    1/7
    Look at that tiny bike!
    Image: EcoFlow
    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    Samsung’s rebound.

    The AI boom benefiting makers of advanced chips has driven up prices for Samsung’s conventional DRAM and NAND chips needed for data center servers. Demand for its high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips still lags, but Samsung just previewed its best financial quarter in over three years, regardless.

    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    Aolol.

    The Internet darling valued at $100 billion in 2001 when it merged with Time Warner is for sale by Apollo Global Management for about 1 percent of that. Italy’s Bending Spoons is said to be interested, owner of WeTransfer, Evernote, Komoot, and Vimeo.