The European Bike Project is one of our favorite Instagram accounts and his feed is constantly updated with everything from interesting curios from tiny manufacturers to inside looks at European manufacturing to analyzes of the environmental impact of our sport. He now has a regular column for us here at Pinkbike that will be mainly … Read more
The premier of British Columbia is expected to announce he’s stepping down Tuesday afternoon, multiple sources have told CTV News. John Horgan is scheduled to speak at a 1:30 pm news conference in Vancouver, where he has spent the last two days at a cabinet retreat. CTV News will be streaming the event live. Rumors … Read more
Ottawa Senators co-founder Cyril Leeder was 6,000 feet in the air, riding a hot air balloon in France at the time former Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson was announced as a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee. The Leeder anecdote, which he noted on Twitter with a ‘where were you when Alfie got in the Hall?’ segment, … Read more
Martian rock samples collected by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show signs of key ingredients for life as we know it on Earth. The venerable Curiosity Rover drilled samples from scab crater, the site of an ancient lake on Mars. Using these samples, scientists were able, for the first time, to measure the total amount of … Read more
Happy 50th anniversary, Atari! Originally established in 1972, the company has firmly placed itself into gaming history as one of the first to create a slew of fantastic and exciting games for the masses. Obviously, we’ve come a long way since the Atari 2600, and the graphics are close to real life now, but back … Read more
US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas were “horrifying and heartbreaking.” “Initial reports are that this tragedy was caused by smugglers or human traffickers who have no regard for the lives they endanger and exploit to make a profit,” he said … Read more
Saanich Police say multiple people have been injured after officers exchanged fire with armed suspects who entered a bank on Shelbourne Street Tuesday. Officers were called to the area of Shelbourne and Pear streets after armed suspects were reported at the bank. Police asked the public to avoid the area as the police incident unfolded. … Read more
Oil rose for a third day as global output threats compound already red-hot markets for physical supplies and China cut its quarantine time for new arrivals. West Texas Intermediate futures rose to trade near US$110, while the most notable moves in recent days have been in more specialist market gauges. A contract known as the … Read more
Chipmaker Arm on Tuesday introduced its next-gen mobile GPU. The Immortalis-G715 has ray tracing support in its hardware and 15% improved performance for better gaming on Android phones coming next year, Arm said. While Apple, Google and Qualcomm haven’t released a chipset with ray tracing in hardware, Arm isn’t technically the first. Samsung beat it … Read more
Chilean Astronomer Bárbara Rojas-Ayala at the Paranal Observatory/ESO. Barbara Rojas-Ayala Chilean researcher Bárbara Rojas-Ayala found a way to measure the “metallicity” of M dwarf (red dwarf) stars which in turn could help science to better understand how planets, stars and galaxies form. Rojas-Ayala, an associate professor at the Universidad de Tarapacá and a researcher at … Read more
