RI lawmakers vote to legalize e-bikes – with a speed limit on bike paths The bill will allow only slower e-bikes on bike paths and gives the DEM authority to decide whether other classes should be allowed on them. 06/6/2024 - 10:13 pm | View Link
DC elementary school students graduate safe biking program with new bicycles More than 200 second and third graders received new bicycles as they graduated from a D.C. program that taught them how to safely ride. 06/6/2024 - 1:46 pm | View Link
Is the COVID-19 ‘bicycle boom’ over for Baton Rouge bike shops? During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. experienced a “bicycle boom.” How are Baton Rouge bike shops faring now? 06/6/2024 - 8:42 am | View Link
Blumenauer bill aims to boost US bike manufacturing Portland Congressman Earl Blumenauer wants to incentive a more robust bicycle industry. Today his office introduced the Domestic Bicycle Production Act to “reinvigorate bike manufacturing in the ... 06/6/2024 - 5:43 am | View Link
The US doesn’t make bicycles anymore — here’s how to change that It only took 30 years for the US to lose its entire bike manufacturing industry. China dominates global bike manufacturing, with imports accounting for 97 percent of bikes purchased in the US, ... 06/6/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Enlarge / An artist's concept of a Mars Ascent Vehicle orbiting the red planet. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth.
The space agency put out a call to industry in April to propose ideas on how to return the Mars rocks to Earth for less than $11 billion and before 2040, the cost and schedule for NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return (MSR).
Enlarge / A Diamond Shruumz chocolate bar, which come in a variety of flavors. (credit: diamondshruumz.com)
Various federal and state health officials are sounding the alarm on Diamond Shruumz-brand Microdosing Chocolate Bars. The candy, said to be infused with mushrooms, has been linked to severe illnesses, including seizures, loss of consciousness, confusion, sleepiness, agitation, abnormal heart rates, hyper/hypotension, nausea, and vomiting, according to an outbreak alert released by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
So far, eight people across four states have been sickened—four in Arizona, two in Indiana, one in Nevada, and one in Pennsylvania, the FDA reported.
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A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take action before the weekend starts.
Within 24 hours of the vulnerability and accompanying patch being published, researchers from the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver reported Internet scans designed to identify servers that are susceptible to attacks.