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Ride1Up Prodigy V2 review: An affordable Brose mid-drive e-bike for the common man!

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As a Class 3 e-bike, it can hit speeds of up to 28 mph (45 km/h), which is the maximum legal limit for e-bikes in most jurisdictions in the US. That German-made motor isn’t cheap, and neither are the quad-piston disc brakes, the Enviolo CVT hub, nor the long travel air suspension fork. The bike is also plenty fast, too.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. Figuring it was plain sailing from there, I canceled my Crowd Supply kit order and set off on my own.

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