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Revitalized by the brand’s acquisition by Polaris in 2011, Indian has understandably played to its strengths, starting with a line of traditional air-cooled big V-twin cruisers catering to wealthy traditionalists. Yes, the “investment bikers” who cosplay on motorcycles during their free time. Then Indian went after beginners with the affordable, lightweight Scout family of compact, water-cooled V-twin machines. The FTR 1200 S we tested represents the launch of a new fully contemporary product line directly targeting enthusiast riders who currently have traditionally favored the Ducati Monster, Triumph Speed Triple and BMW R nineT....

Best hairstyler: Dyson Airwrap Get salon-worthy hair every day with the revamped Dyson Airwrap, which was re-engineered with Coanda airflow for greater control, faster drying, and easier styling. Six attachments let you dry, curl, and coif hair sans-major damage compared to other stylers. We’ve tested this TikTok fan favorite, and we’re huge fans of the round volumizing brush attachment’s ability to give shampoo commercial-worthy volume and bouncy, smooth hair. Best book: “The Impossible Collection of Champagne: The 100 Most Exceptional Bottles from Champagne” Book by Enrico Bernardo This artful coffee table book is great for wine aficionados and casual sippers....

After a spring is deflected, it bounces back past its original position and continues to oscillate until its energy is dissipated by a natural phenomenon known as hysteresis. A heavy-duty spring used in an automobile’s suspension would continue to oscillate for a long, long time if that motion weren’t controlled. Therefore, shock absorbers are fitted to dampen the oscillation. (Technically, shock absorbers transform the kinetic energy produced by suspension travel into thermal energy that’s dissipated by hydraulic fluid....

The lack of offshore wind in America has often been attributed to high costs and a lack of support from states and the federal government. However, new offshore wind projects are already being planned off the coast of New York and California. The Biden administration has set a bold goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. As of last year, there were only 35 gigawatts of offshore wind power deployed globally....

People who watched the videos were better able to identify misinformation techniques than those who didn’t see the clips, as the team reports in a study published in the journal Science Advances today. “It’s very possible on social media to reduce vulnerability and susceptibility to being manipulated,” says Jon Roozenbeek, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and the lead author of the study. “Maybe not all misinformation, but you can demonstrably improve people’s ability to detect when they’re being manipulated online....

With almost a century in speaker development and live sound reinforcement, JBL has a reputation for vibrant sound that plays out in the JBL Live Free NC+ TWS earbuds as I belt out the chorus. Thankfully, only the dog was around to hear me. Let’s take a look at the technology that surrounded me with sound. What are the JBL Live Free NC+ TWS earbuds? Sweatproof and lightweight, the JBL Live Free NC+ TWS are earbuds for active listeners....

The new GoT trailer gives fans little in the way of official details from Winds Of Winter–the upcoming book which season 6 will be based off of. Though even still, the choice to focus on Jon Snow in the opening shot of the trailer is a deliberate one. Take note Song Of Ice And Fire fans. Few series are as important to HBO as Game Of Thrones. As one of the first and few networks to offer a traditional cable channel and internet-only service (that doesn’t require cable), other services are carefully watching....

The sixteenth century was an interesting one for astronomy. For centuries the Aristotelean geocentric cosmology prevailed. The idea that all the heavenly bodies orbited the Earth in perfect circles moved by prime mover firmly kept man at the centre of the universe. But the observations didn’t support this view, an inconsistency that prompted Nicolaus Copernicus to suggest in his 1543 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium — On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — the heliocentric model wherein the Sun was central....

A study published today in Current Biology finds that children and adults have different concentrations of a key brain messenger called gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA. This messenger stabilizes newly learned material, which is why it plays a role in how the brain learns new things. GABA is a neurotransmitter that slows down the brain by blocking specific signals in the body’s central nervous system. According to the Cleveland Clinic, GABA also produces a calming effect and is thought to play a major role in controlling nerve cell hyperactivity associated with anxiety, stress, and fear....

Scientists may have found yet another zoonotic transmission, this time via the tiny shrew. Shrews are mole-like mammals that primarily eat insects and are found in the grasslands, marshes, and meadows of many countries around the world. A study published on August 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine hypothesizes that shrews were the primary host of the Langya henipavirus (LayV for short) before it spread to humans. The team based in China, Singapore, and Australia claimed they found no evidence that the disease is transmitted between humans—however that may be due to the small sample size available....

Last year, homeowners connected some 4 billion devices to their networks. Dojo by BullGuard keeps hackers from exploiting them. The 6-inch box plugs into your router, monitors traffic, and cuts off any shady activity. Meanwhile, Dojo’s server looks for patterns across all its relatives to thwart bigger threats. $199. The Nest Cam Outdoor is always watching, but it needs help to know what it’s looking at. With the Nest Aware service, footage uploads to the company’s servers, where computer- vision algorithms distinguish a person from Spot chasing a squirrel....

But these microscopic lunar glasses–which range in size from a few tens of micrometers to a few millimeters–don’t just tell the moon’s story. They also offer a window into meteorite impacts on Earth, too. The research team found that the moon’s collisions occurred around the same time as many of Earth’s most notorious impacts—including the one that scientists say was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs (except for birds). “The moon is kind of our witness to what the history of large impacts really is in our neighborhood of the solar system,” says Rhonda Stroud, director of the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University who was not involved in the news study....

For the uninitiated, Maserati is one of Italy’s old’s exotic car brands, founded in 1914 as an engineering company; it’s been building sexy Italian automobiles since 1926. Today, it is one brand in the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles group, alongside its neighbor, Ferrari. The two companies cooperate on technology, and Maserati relies on Ferrari for its cars’ V8 engines. Sales of 55,000 Levantes since the car’s launch in 2016 make it the best-selling Maserati ever....

As you might already know, your phone can count your steps and track your sleep, but it can also get a reading on your heart rate. To do that, your handheld device uses its rear camera to estimate beats per minute based on the color changes in your fingertip, which indicate the pumping of blood through the capillaries. Whether you’ve left your heart rate tracking wearable at home or you don’t own one in the first place, being able to take this important measurement only with your phone is a handy alternative....

“We heard that first boom, and then just fire and smoke coming up,” one onlooker told ABC News afterward. The large span fell into the river below. The structure in the background of the photographs is the $3.9-billion, 3.1-mile Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, which opened in 2017 and 2018 and connects Tarrytown and South Nyack, New York, over the Hudson River. The old bridge, the Tappan Zee, dates back to 1955, and while the original plan had been to take it apart without explosives, concerns over the safety of the old structure shifted the plan to the more dramatic option....

The big new features include a series of new application programming interfaces (APIs), which are tools that software developers outside Microsoft can use to build their own independent apps. Microsoft mainly hyped its Emotion API, which uses machine learning to recognize eight states of emotion (anger, contempt, fear, disgust, happiness, neutral, sadness, or surprise), based on facial expressions. (It’s a lot like the work of Paul Ekman, more popularly made into the defunct TV show “Lie To Me....

There are three new models in the line, each of which provides an effect you can’t really fake in editing. This first is a circular polarizing filter, which affects the way the camera sees reflected light. So, if you want to shoot down on some water and see through the reflections on the surface or see through windows into a car, this filter can help. The second, a neutral-density filter, doesn’t affect the look of the scene, but simply restricts the amount of light that makes its way to the sensor....

The trial is the first to be conducted alongside a national bed net distribution campaign, says study author Martin Donnelly, a mosquito expert at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The randomized study covered almost half of Uganda’s geographical space, he says, observing the distribution of 15 million LLINs handed out by the Ugandan ministry of health. Donnelly and his colleagues have been working with the resulting data for a while, and have already published several papers—but the latest is the first to focus on insecticide resistance, which happens when insects evolve resilience against the pesticides that used to kill them....

So instead of Constellation we’re getting the Space Launch System (SLS), and that’s not going terribly well either. According to NASAspaceflight.com, the project to build a heavy lift rocket that could carry humans and their copious luggage to Mars doesn’t have a game plan, and funding issues are at least partly to blame. NASA is aiming to bring astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, and SLS is supposed to be the vehicle that gets us there....

The storied Kepler space telescope, finder of scorched baby Mercuries, a real Tatooine, gigantic Jupiters and possible other Earths, might be on its last planet-hunting breath. The telescope put itself into safe mode yesterday and its control wheels may have failed, meaning it cannot properly point at the stars. NASA says the telescope is not dead, but they are not sure they can keep it going, either. “I think the most interesting, exciting discoveries are coming in the next two years....