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Uber is making a big push into bicycles. 

The ride-hailing company announced Monday it was acquiring bicycle-share company, Jump. The San Francisco-based company known for its red frames with a battery-powered boost had partnered with Uber for the past few months in San Francisco. Uber Bike is sticking around.

Now Jump and its fleet of e-bikes (in January the company launched 250 of the bikes into San Francisco with rides for $2 for 30 minutes) is officially part of Uber, pedaling Uber away from solely cars and driving to get around. This is a big step in Uber’s transformation into a multi-modal platform. Read more…

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Those Tesla Model 3 orders are taking awhile, but at least the electric carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk is keeping customers in the loop.

Over the weekend, Musk, who is apparently sleeping at the factory as he takes over production of the behind-schedule electric sedan, responded to a tweet about a dual-motor version. Musk said to expect the special dual-motor Model 3 configuration in July — the car company needs to focus on the basics first. The dual-motor design was leaked earlier this year.

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Tech billionaires and broke college students have one thing in common: living in a go-to uniform of a T-shirt, hoodie and jeans, day after day. In that sea of sameness, putting on a suit makes a powerful statement—and it might actually make you better at your job, too. 

According to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that explores “enclothed cognition,” what you wear can have a serious effect on how you view yourself and how you perform at work. Dressing in ways that suggest authority—a doctor donning a white lab coat, for instance—can raise testosterone levels, a hormone that boosts self-esteem and actually makes you feel more confident.  Read more…

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This indoor farm allows scientists to grow plants on Antarctica, without the need for soil. Read more…

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We’ve got a good feeling about this — or at least, Han Solo does.

You may have forgotten that Solo: A Star Wars Story is out next month, since Disney and Lucasfilm haven’t done all that much marketing for the spin-off film since its first trailer dropped after the Super Bowl in February.

But that changed Sunday, when a new Solo trailer arrived during American Idol on Disney-owned ABC. 

The trailer focuses on the basic plot of the film — which is not just a “young Han Solo” prequel, but a heist movie, evidently. We see such moments as Han (Alden Ehrenreich)’s first meeting with Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and his discovery that Chewbacca is a 190-year-old Wookiee who can pilot a spaceship just fine, thank you very much.  Read more…

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Tread lightly, because spoilers for the ending of A Quiet Place are afoot.

The new horror movie making noise at the box office and wowing critics is also leaving audiences speechless. And part of the success of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place can be attributed to its subtle approach to worldbuilding, leaving many details about its post-apocalyptic setting unsaid (literally).

Like most of the best horror films (The Witch, The Babadook, Alien, Get Out, The Shining), A Quiet Place deliberately avoids being explicit about the exact nature of its premise and rules — which leaves a lot to interpretation. Instead, the movie artfully establishes facts about the world, its fall, and the monsters causing it through tiny details and hints that you could’ve easily missed. Read more…

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Sean Hannity doesn’t know when to stop.

The Fox News host went on a tear Friday after talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had skewered Melania Trump and her accent on his show Monday night. Hannity found this very offensive. That’s when his Kimmel “take-down” started. 

Hannity’s sensitivity to Kimmel’s unnecessary insult was fair to call out initially, but his point got lost quickly. The barrage of tweets about Kimmel’s alleged lurid, perverted past marred any ground Hannity had won with his original statement against the mocking.

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The internet is a vast, wonderful trove of information. There’s so much to learn from a seemingly endless supply of resources. From video lectures about particle physics to step-by-step tutorials about starting urban farms — there are so many ways to learn more about, well, everything.

If you’re like a majority of people, the internet is also a deep rabbit hole of ways to waste time. If you’re looking for options to spend hours looking at baby animals or read about the world’s wildest conspiracy theories, look no further. 

Here are 10 sites to waste time on when you’re bored with the rest of the world.  Read more…

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The number one rule in comedy states that the best way to kill a joke is to explain it. But that doesn’t account for Lyric Genius, which has mastered the art of comedy in over-explaining music. 

And the internet is extremely here for it.

Spotify users are probably familiar with the Behind the Lyrics service provided by the crowd-sourced music annotation website Lyric Genius. But you might have missed the full scope of its brilliance, which brings the scholarly rigors of footnoting to the nonsense lyrics of modern pop music.

Amateur music scholars on Twitter shared their appreciation, and a Twitter moment gathered the most illuminating pieces of information gleaned from the Spotify and Lyric Genius partnership. They are nothing short of wiiiiiiild (and you can fact check us on that). Read more…

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You don’t always need hundreds of pages to tell a moving story. Or at least that’s the case with “The Paper Menagerie,” the titular story of Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories.

“Paper Menagerie” is a short story about a bi-racial boy named Jack, who has a white dad and a Chinese mom, who immigrated to America. When he is a kid, Jack’s mom creates an origami menagerie for him, and when Jack’s mom breathes into the origami, the menagerie comes to life, jumping and playing with him. 

After a fight with schoolmate who teases Jack about his Chinese heritage, Jack discards the menagerie, and rejects his mom, who grows increasingly silent. As Jack grows up, he distances himself from his mom until their relationship is uncomfortable and strained. But when his mom dies, Jack discovers that she has been writing letters in the paper of his menagerie, and she has her own story that she has been struggling to tell. Read more…

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