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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

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    Lime is getting ready to release more e-bikes into the wild.

    Bloomberg reports that Uber-backed scooter-and-bike-share company Lime is planning to put out 30,000 additional electric bikes in North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as replace older ones.

    Lime also reportedly saw record revenue last year — as it predicted it would back in September — even as others in its industry, like Bird, have docked their expectations.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    The Rabbit R1 comes with a “vintage cassette style travel case.”

    The case will double as a kickstand, according to CEO Jesse Lyu. The first batch of Rabbit’s fast-selling AI gadget is supposed to reach customers “around April 24th,” Rabbit announced previously.

    In the meantime, here’s what owners can expect to see when opening their Rabbit shipment.

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    Wes Davis
    A US bill takes aim at protecting Americans’ data privacy.

    Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and House Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Oregon) announced a new, national data privacy bill called The American Privacy Rights Act (PDF) today.

    According to their release, the bill would, among other things, “require affirmative express consent sensitive data can be transferred to a third party.” The two were behind a since-stalled version of the bill back in 2022.

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    Wes Davis
    Apple’s next immersive video is another Prehistoric Planet episode.

    The second episode of Prehistoric Planet Immersive will be available on April 19th, according to the Apple TV Plus page for the series.

    The first episode was a pretty demonstration of the Vision Pro, rather than the David Attenborough-narrated, pretend nature documentary that Prehistoric Planet is. But the younger version of me that saw Jurassic Park and Prehysteria in theaters welcomes it, anyway.

    A screenshot of the episode page for Triceratops Forest.
    I’m ready for that immersive triceratops.
    Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
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    Wes Davis
    Gemini is coming to the Android Google app.

    Based on the video AssembleDebug shared below, it looks like it’ll work exactly as it does in iOS: tap the Gemini logo at the top, and you’ll be switched over to a chatbot prompt field. There, you can type to Google’s revamped chatbot, ask it to create images, or have it analyze pictures you send it.

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    Wes Davis
    Ripping music the old-fashioned way.

    Because you can find just about any kind of content on the web, there’s a TikTok channel that’s almost entirely devoted to wax phonograph cylinders and the devices that play them.

    One process for printing music on them, shown here by phonograph repair person Wyatt Markus, involves playing music into a metal cone. That transfers the sound waves through a cutting stylus that etches them into the wax.

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    Wes Davis
    Apple’s home robotics plan might include a robotic screen for FaceTime.

    Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote in Power On today that Vision Pro development slowed its smart home work but now that the headset is out, it’s focused on that again.

    The screen would reportedly turn to face users while on a call and could mimic human gestures by nodding or shaking the screen when the person on the other end of the call does so.

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    Wes Davis
    Google will offer free local broadcasts of Monday’s solar eclipse.

    The list, published by 9to5Google and others, is mostly NBC affiliate stations.

    Many of the stations are located in the eclipse’s path of totality, but folks in places like the Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, and south Florida will be able to watch on Google TV, too.