
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Gazelle, Amflow, and Monarc, the CPSC wants to clam…

Volvo CE announced its first-ever electric articulated haul truck at last year’s Bauma construction expo; less than a year later, the first examples of Volvo’s new A30 Electric are in customers’ hands, doing real work.

Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn’t shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas and hopes will transform medicine with cheap, detailed, radiation-free imaging. The nearly 20-minute tour […]

Eurobike, the annual bicycle tradeshow that takes over Germany for several days each summer, always brings with it a fun array of new bikes and bike-related goodies. While the show wasn’t as big as it had been in previous years, there were still plenty…
Georgia Tech researchers developed Spherephones, a wearable headset that turns nearby robot movement into spatial lo-fi music, warning factory workers before they even look up.
A new Pew Research Center survey has found that 56 percent of Americans support banning social media for anyone under 16, with support crossing party lines and age groups.
Elon Musk has called a Wall Street Journal report “utterly false” after it claimed SpaceX showed investors a handset-like AI device ahead of its IPO.
Valve has open-sourced its Inkterface E-Ink faceplate for the Steam Machine, sharing 3D files, BOM, and firmware so anyone can build one.

The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But […]