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- From 2024: Tommy John on Tommy John surgery, before and after
In this interview from 2024, former pitching ace Tommy John talked with correspondent Faith Salie about the injury to his pitching arm he suffered in 1974, and about the innovative procedure (which came to be known as "Tommy John surgery") that rescued his career – and would prolong the careers of many more professional and amateur athletes since. [John died on Aug. 15, 2026 at age 83.] [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - September 2026
The September 2026 issue of Rider Magazine has arrived! On the cover: The BMW R nineT 100 Years Edition commemorates BMW Motorrad’s centennial. Photo by Kevin Wing Subscribe Now Additional stories in the September 2026 issue of Rider Magazine. More Than A Budget Sportbike | First Ride2026 CFMOTO 675SS The New River Gorge | On The RoadRiding America’s newest National Park More Is More | First Ride2026 KTM 1390 Super Adventure R Fall Travel GuideThese Fall riding destinations are calling your name! Tellico Plains, TN | Favorite RideMy favorite weekend ride. And more! The post September 2026 appeared first on Rider Magazine. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race?
As China releases ever more capable AI models—ones that compete with Silicon Valley’s top offerings—many American AI and national-security researchers have been arguing, loudly and forcefully, that the world should fear Chinese AI supremacy. The outcomes they envision are catastrophic. I spoke with a number of such experts recently, and they warned of bots that could devise an impenetrable missile-defense system that makes obsolete America’s nuclear arsenal, or manufacture an endless drone army that overwhelms American defenses. They could develop bioweapons that “target specific ethnic groups, e.g. anybody but Han Chinese,” as one influential AI white paper put it in 2024. Rama Elluru, a senior director at the Special Competitive Studies Project, a nonpartisan think tank founded by the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, suggested to me that Chinese AI models could be used to create “engineered humans,” akin to Marvel’s Captain America.Perhaps anything is possible. At a moment when AI models are self-directing massive security breaches and designing novel pathogens, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning about an “AI-enabled totalitarian nightmare” led by China, the worst-case scenarios can seem closer and closer.[Read: It may be time to panic about AI]At the same time, it’s worth taking a breath to consider how much these dire imagined futures are getting ahead of where things actually stand. A struggle really is, of course, playing out among the U.S., China, and any number of other nations over whether democracy or authoritarianism will be the dominant global influence. Both the United States and China have a history of launching propaganda campaigns against each other; the Chinese government is reportedly starting a concerted effort to be the source of more AI training data, in part so that it can embed its views, such as over the status of Taiwan, into chatbots worldwide. But fears about China using AI for swift global domination assume that the technology will advance to a kind of superintelligence: AI models smart enough to develop smarter bots themselves, which would lead whichever country controls them to enter “escape velocity where your adversaries aren’t able to catch up,” David Lin, a senior director at the SCSP who previously covered China and technology at the CIA, told me. It is not clear that such an omniscient digital being can or will be built.The White House has further muddled matters by taking a series of contradictory stances toward Chinese technology. It has, for… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - There’s No Reason to Buy a New Phone AnymoreIn a time when an iPhone can be preordered, customized, and on its way to your doorstep all through a touch-screen tap, it’s almost quaint to remember that people used to camp out for smartphone releases. That was once the regular routine of Andrew Erickson, a longtime tech YouTuber, who recalled to me with a mixture of nostalgia and awe the time he braved the rain at 4:30 a.m. to join a line for the newest iPhone. The line snaked through the mall, nearly reaching the parking lot.[Read: The $10,000 MacBook Pro is here]Next month, when Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 18 Pro, Erickson has no plans to even buy the phone, let alone fight crowds for it. Instead, along with a growing number of Americans, Erickson is buying used. He’s fed up with incremental improvements in gadgets, he told me, and is more interested in getting an old version of the iPhone 17 Pro when it hits the secondhand market at a discount. Already, almost half of his current devices were acquired secondhand, and as electronics prices soar amid an AI-fueled chip shortage, he expects that portion to grow. “The argument’s just getting weaker and weaker to buy brand-new,” he said.Based on the numbers, old tech products are indeed being looked at in a new light. Globally, the size of the industry could reach $153.4 billion this year, up from $104.1 billion four years ago. The used-smartphone market alone is expected to grow by more than 12 percent in 2026, according to the International Data Corporation, which forecasts that the market for new smartphones will experience a record drop this year. Growth in secondhand electronics and refurbished gadgets that have been restored to full working condition now outpaces that of new products on eBay, the e-commerce giant reports.Among a number of shoppers I spoke with, there was a sense that new models are indistinguishable from the old ones, and the hype of securing the latest and greatest has given way to an upgrade cycle driven by practicality. More than ever before, people are eager to buy used.“We’ve never been here,” Lauren Benton, the U.S. general manager of the refurbished-electronics marketplace Back Market, told me. She said demand ticked up immediately after Apple unveiled price hikes this summer. Back Market’s order values for refurbished MacBooks in the U.S. increased by 37 percent throughout the week following the price… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- FMCSA Orders Fleets to Stop Using 15 Revoked Electronic Logging Devices
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has revoked 15 electronic logging devices (ELDs) over the past two months after determining that they failed to meet federal requirements. The latest action adds five devices to the agency’s revoked list following 10 removals in July, requiring affected motor carriers and drivers to transition to compliant equipment within 60 days. ELDs are critical compliance tools for the trucking industry because they electronically track a driver’s record of duty status and help enforce federal hours-of-service regulations. FMCSA requires most interstate commercial drivers subject to these rules to use registered devices. When an ELD no longer meets federal technical requirements, the agency can remove it from its Registered Devices list. FMCSA’s August 6 action removed devices that failed to meet minimum requirements established under federal ELD regulations. The affected products include Moonlight ELD, HGRS ELD, Truckford ELD, and Sparkle ELD. Fleets and drivers using devices included in the August revocations must transition to compliant ELDs before October 6, 2026. The August action follows a larger round of revocations announced July 9. Those devices include Ontime Logs iosix, Last Minute ELD, Porter ELD, Zee HOS Compliance, EV ELD IOSIX, Light and Travel ELD, Premierride Logs, 2Bro ELD, 305 ELD, and TT ELD 40. Users of those products have until September 8, 2026, to complete the replacement process. FMCSA is directing affected carriers and drivers to immediately stop relying on revoked devices and temporarily use paper logs or logging software to maintain required hours-of-service records. They must then install a compliant ELD from FMCSA’s Registered Devices list before the applicable 60-day deadline. Failure to make the switch could have serious consequences. Once the transition period expires, carriers continuing to use a revoked device will be considered in violation of federal record-of-duty-status requirements. Drivers can then be placed out of service under the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Out-of-Service Criteria. The latest removals are part of FMCSA’s broader effort to strengthen oversight of electronic logging technology. Late last year, the agency announced an overhaul of its ELD vetting process amid industry concerns about providers and carriers potentially manipulating electronic logs to allow drivers to violate hours-of-service limits. The changes are intended to prevent noncompliant products from reaching the registered-device list in the first place. Some providers named in the recent action have previously had devices revoked. Ontime Logs had another model removed in November 2025, while Evo ELD… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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In this interview from 2024, former pitching ace Tommy John talked with correspondent Faith Salie about the injury to his pitching arm he suffered in 1974, and about the innovative procedure (which came to be known as "Tommy John surgery") that rescued his career – and would prolong the careers of many more professional and amateur athletes since. [John died on Aug. 15, 2026 at age 83.] [TheTopNews] Read More.
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The September 2026 issue of Rider Magazine has arrived! On the cover: The BMW R nineT 100 Years Edition commemorates BMW Motorrad’s centennial. Photo by Kevin Wing Subscribe Now Additional stories in the September 2026 issue of Rider Magazine. More Than A Budget Sportbike | First Ride2026 CFMOTO 675SS The New River Gorge | On The RoadRiding America’s newest National Park More Is More | First Ride2026 KTM 1390 Super Adventure R Fall Travel GuideThese Fall riding destinations are calling your name! Tellico Plains, TN | Favorite RideMy favorite weekend ride. And more! The post September 2026 appeared first on Rider Magazine. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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As China releases ever more capable AI models—ones that compete with Silicon Valley’s top offerings—many American AI and national-security researchers have been arguing, loudly and forcefully, that the world should fear Chinese AI supremacy. The outcomes they envision are catastrophic. I spoke with a number of such experts recently, and they warned of bots that could devise an impenetrable missile-defense system that makes obsolete America’s nuclear arsenal, or manufacture an endless drone army that overwhelms American defenses. They could develop bioweapons that “target specific ethnic groups, e.g. anybody but Han Chinese,” as one influential AI white paper put it in 2024. Rama Elluru, a senior director at the Special Competitive Studies Project, a nonpartisan think tank founded by the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, suggested to me that Chinese AI models could be used to create “engineered humans,” akin to Marvel’s Captain America.Perhaps anything is possible. At a moment when AI models are self-directing massive security breaches and designing novel pathogens, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning about an “AI-enabled totalitarian nightmare” led by China, the worst-case scenarios can seem closer and closer.[Read: It may be time to panic about AI]At the same time, it’s worth taking a breath to consider how much these dire imagined futures are getting ahead of where things actually stand. A struggle really is, of course, playing out among the U.S., China, and any number of other nations over whether democracy or authoritarianism will be the dominant global influence. Both the United States and China have a history of launching propaganda campaigns against each other; the Chinese government is reportedly starting a concerted effort to be the source of more AI training data, in part so that it can embed its views, such as over the status of Taiwan, into chatbots worldwide. But fears about China using AI for swift global domination assume that the technology will advance to a kind of superintelligence: AI models smart enough to develop smarter bots themselves, which would lead whichever country controls them to enter “escape velocity where your adversaries aren’t able to catch up,” David Lin, a senior director at the SCSP who previously covered China and technology at the CIA, told me. It is not clear that such an omniscient digital being can or will be built.The White House has further muddled matters by taking a series of contradictory stances toward Chinese technology. It has, for… [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
In a time when an iPhone can be preordered, customized, and on its way to your doorstep all through a touch-screen tap, it’s almost quaint to remember that people used to camp out for smartphone releases. That was once the regular routine of Andrew Erickson, a longtime tech YouTuber, who recalled to me with a mixture of nostalgia and awe the time he braved the rain at 4:30 a.m. to join a line for the newest iPhone. The line snaked through the mall, nearly reaching the parking lot.[Read: The $10,000 MacBook Pro is here]Next month, when Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 18 Pro, Erickson has no plans to even buy the phone, let alone fight crowds for it. Instead, along with a growing number of Americans, Erickson is buying used. He’s fed up with incremental improvements in gadgets, he told me, and is more interested in getting an old version of the iPhone 17 Pro when it hits the secondhand market at a discount. Already, almost half of his current devices were acquired secondhand, and as electronics prices soar amid an AI-fueled chip shortage, he expects that portion to grow. “The argument’s just getting weaker and weaker to buy brand-new,” he said.Based on the numbers, old tech products are indeed being looked at in a new light. Globally, the size of the industry could reach $153.4 billion this year, up from $104.1 billion four years ago. The used-smartphone market alone is expected to grow by more than 12 percent in 2026, according to the International Data Corporation, which forecasts that the market for new smartphones will experience a record drop this year. Growth in secondhand electronics and refurbished gadgets that have been restored to full working condition now outpaces that of new products on eBay, the e-commerce giant reports.Among a number of shoppers I spoke with, there was a sense that new models are indistinguishable from the old ones, and the hype of securing the latest and greatest has given way to an upgrade cycle driven by practicality. More than ever before, people are eager to buy used.“We’ve never been here,” Lauren Benton, the U.S. general manager of the refurbished-electronics marketplace Back Market, told me. She said demand ticked up immediately after Apple unveiled price hikes this summer. Back Market’s order values for refurbished MacBooks in the U.S. increased by 37 percent throughout the week following the price… [TheTopNews] Read More.
1 week ago
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has revoked 15 electronic logging devices (ELDs) over the past two months after determining that they failed to meet federal requirements. The latest action adds five devices to the agency’s revoked list following 10 removals in July, requiring affected motor carriers and drivers to transition to compliant equipment within 60 days. ELDs are critical compliance tools for the trucking industry because they electronically track a driver’s record of duty status and help enforce federal hours-of-service regulations. FMCSA requires most interstate commercial drivers subject to these rules to use registered devices. When an ELD no longer meets federal technical requirements, the agency can remove it from its Registered Devices list. FMCSA’s August 6 action removed devices that failed to meet minimum requirements established under federal ELD regulations. The affected products include Moonlight ELD, HGRS ELD, Truckford ELD, and Sparkle ELD. Fleets and drivers using devices included in the August revocations must transition to compliant ELDs before October 6, 2026. The August action follows a larger round of revocations announced July 9. Those devices include Ontime Logs iosix, Last Minute ELD, Porter ELD, Zee HOS Compliance, EV ELD IOSIX, Light and Travel ELD, Premierride Logs, 2Bro ELD, 305 ELD, and TT ELD 40. Users of those products have until September 8, 2026, to complete the replacement process. FMCSA is directing affected carriers and drivers to immediately stop relying on revoked devices and temporarily use paper logs or logging software to maintain required hours-of-service records. They must then install a compliant ELD from FMCSA’s Registered Devices list before the applicable 60-day deadline. Failure to make the switch could have serious consequences. Once the transition period expires, carriers continuing to use a revoked device will be considered in violation of federal record-of-duty-status requirements. Drivers can then be placed out of service under the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Out-of-Service Criteria. The latest removals are part of FMCSA’s broader effort to strengthen oversight of electronic logging technology. Late last year, the agency announced an overhaul of its ELD vetting process amid industry concerns about providers and carriers potentially manipulating electronic logs to allow drivers to violate hours-of-service limits. The changes are intended to prevent noncompliant products from reaching the registered-device list in the first place. Some providers named in the recent action have previously had devices revoked. Ontime Logs had another model removed in November 2025, while Evo ELD… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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