Matthew F. Clark
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- July 12, 2020
The AMB 001 motorcycle by Aston Martin and Brough Superior, featuring a carbon fiber tank, fin, body panels, and more, is undergoing dynamic prototype testing at a racetrack in France. The AMB 001 is a lightweight and powerful sports motorcycle concept with a structural carbon fiber body. All of the...

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- July 7, 2020
The United States government is considering banning TikTok because it views the hugely popular social media app as a security threat, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The video app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has an estimated 65-80 million active monthly users in...

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- July 7, 2020
Under Armour has fallen into a bit of a rut. The company, which has taken a hit to sales amid the pandemic, said in November it was under federal investigation over its accounting practices. On October 22, the company’s founder, Kevin Plank, announced he would be stepping down from his role as...

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- June 29, 2020
Motorcycle racing is an electrifying sport, requiring a unique skillset and courageous dedication to the sport. In MotoGP, riders perform hundreds of synchronized, physics-bending laps, grazing the tarmac at high speeds – in drag racing, they complete the quarter-mile in the blink of an eye,...

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- June 28, 2020
A 25-year-old man from California was arrested on charges of felony hit-and-run after a video allegedly showed him speeding away with a motorcycle wrapped around his vehicle’s bumper. George Valentin, 25, was taken into custody Saturday after he admitted to being the driver involved in a crash the...

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- June 26, 2020
Microsoft is about to (mostly) give up on retail. Today the company announced plans to permanently close all Microsoft Store locations in the United States and around the world, except for four locations that will remain open. Those locations are New York City (Fifth Ave), London (Oxford Circus),...

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- December 1, 2019
Few things can bring you the joy and freedom that cruising the roads on a motorcycle does. While the openness and lack of enclosure mean you can experience the wind in your face and all the best sights of the countryside as you ride past, it also means that you are exposed in the event […]

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- November 30, 2019
There has been a long-standing interest in accurate indoor positioning technology, with a wide range of interesting use cases involving the tracking of either people or objects. These include locating assets in a warehouse or other facility, finding people or for sports-related data-analysis....

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- November 29, 2019
Best advancements in motorcycle gear for the year can be a tough article to write. Motorcycle gear usually advances in iterations, and those improvements happen when they happen. Times Square isn’t showered with new armor, lighter helmets, and fancier tech when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve....

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- July 3, 2019
Maybe you left the key on, maybe you wired that accessory up wrong… We’ve all been there: we come back to our motorcycles and notice that we left the key in the “park” position, or, heck, just left the key on. Now the battery is dead. What to do? Well, unless you’re deep in the […]