We always appreciate people who let us see things we cannot normally see.
YouTuber Warped Perception got an interesting request from a viewer to mount a GoPro inside the tire of a car and drive around in it. We see cars all the time but how does the tire react to the road from the inside, no one knows. At least not until now.
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YouTuber notes that it’s just the right time for such a project as he was about to do away with his old tires due to wear and tear.
For his project, he utilizes a GoPro Hero 7, a USB cable, a LED light, and an external battery pack to power the light. At first, he hesitates that he may not be able to mount all these ingredients into the tire but the indented rib on the steel part allows for a nice bedding for whatever’s going to go inside.
Following some assessments, the YouTuber provides us with a well-montaged process video with all the steps, which in itself makes for an interesting and soothing watch. He sets the camera in a way that the action will happen moving towards the camera.
The next challenge after the installation is how he’s going to get the plastic part of the tire on the metal wheel frame. After this has been dealt with, he then shows us how the fitting of the tire looks from the inside.

Our favorite part of the video was when he filled the tire with air. He shows us how the tire settles on from both inside and outside. Both of the footages have a quite cool and satisfying *pop*.
Once everything’s settled he pops the tire back in starts traveling. He begins with some simple forward accelerations and moves on to making sharp turns with relatively high speed.
How the tire reacts is quite interesting but you have to see that for yourself. It’s indeed a sight to behold how much even 35 or 40 PSI of pressure leave room for flexibility.

With climate change causing unnatural heat waves, fires seem to be showing up all over the U.S. even causing the deaths of two firefighting pilots last Thursday in Nevada. Now, it seems California has gone up in flames.
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The fire reported to be in Cherry Valley has already devastated more than 20,516 acres of land and is currently only 5% contained.

“Much of the northern and eastern edge of the fire is in very steep, rugged hillsides which [are] not accessible to firefighting vehicles.
Firefighters continue to work to slow the spread of the fire using all resources available including helicopters, fixed-wing air tankers, ground equipment, and hand-crews,” wrote Forest Service authorities.
The fire, referred to as the Apple Fire, is located in Riverside County, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles. It started on Friday and has not stopped since then.
CNN has reported that about 7,800 people have been evacuated due to the raging flames. The news agency also reported that there are currently 20 hand-crews, 6 helicopters, 178 engines, and 19 water tenders working on the fire. There are also more than 1,200 professional personnel involved in the battle.
So far, however, no injuries have been reported. The fire department did tweet that a single-family home and two outbuildings were destroyed near Avenida Miravilla. Luckily, it seems the locations were evacuated.
Social media has flooded with images of the fire and the pictures will give you chills. Firefighting personnel also have to be careful not to contract COVID-19 while working.
The pandemic means that they have to add many extra precautions to their work. This includes many changes concerning housing to sanitizing everything during the evenings after long workdays. Talk about complicating an already bad situation!

As a working mother of two toddlers, Rovi Calonge is always on the lookout for a good deal when shopping for her children. These days, that means tuning in to e-commerce platform Shopee’s noontime show on its app, in the hope of winning discount vouchers. “I don’t even shop for my baby’s essentials in the grocery store any more,” she said. “It’s cheaper to buy them online.”
With the coronavirus pandemic forcing millions of people across Southeast Asia to stay home, e-commerce live-streams like Shopee’s have been able to tap into a vast, captive audience that shows every sign of growing.
In April, when many countries in the region were implementing their toughest coronavirus measures, Lazada recorded 27 million active users on its live-streams across all markets, helping to boost its gross merchandise value by 45 per cent month-on-month. In the same month, Shopee recorded 300 million live-stream views in Southeast Asia – quite a feat in a region with a total population of 650 million.
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Live-streams are reminiscent of the live television shopping channels of the 1980s, only this time, the shopping is online and it doesn’t happen only at night but at all hours of the day and targets all demographics. The streams take various forms, from game shows to make-up tutorials, and tend to be produced by brands, small sellers and sometimes the e-commerce platforms themselves. Not only are the products demonstrated live, but viewers can also buy the items while watching the show.
The concept first took off in China when T-Mall, which like Lazada and the South China Morning Post is owned by Alibaba, launched a live-stream for the Singles’ Day online shopping festival in 2016. By last year, live-stream e-commerce was generating at least US$61 billion worth of transactions for platforms in China, according to iMedia Research.
The surge in popularity for companies like Shopee and Lazada has raised hopes that live-streaming could reach a similar level of popularity in Southeast Asia.
User engagement for video apps, or the platforms that host them, has doubled in the region since 2016, according to Google and Temasek’s Southeast Asia Report last year. They are now the region’s second-most popular category of apps, while watching videos accounts for at least a fifth of people’s total time spent online.
But while the region’s live-stream scene owes much to its predecessor in China, it has taken on its own twist. In China, audiences tune in largely to see the human stars of the shows, many of whom have become household names. But in Southeast Asia, it is the brands that attract viewers. The medium is popular with brands because customers can buy products as soon as they see them. Consequently, 90 per cent of live-stream users on Lazada are brands.
The Thai male apparel brand GQ started selling its line of formal shirts online last October. It now hosts live-streams on a biweekly basis, either on Shopee or Lazada, and is one of the top-performing brands on Shopee Thailand.
“Every time we do a live-stream, the effect (on sales) is in multiples, like three to five times more,” said George Hartel, GQ’s chief marketing officer.
“Thais are a very visual, video-driven culture. They appreciate it if a product is shared with them very casually, or in a more entertaining way.”
It helps that GQ’s main product is a stain-resistant shirt, so every live-stream has a novelty factor as influencers try to spill drinks on what they’re wearing.
GQ has since adopted the technology for its new line of masks, the brand’s new bestselling item. “When you have two influencers demonstrating that, it can be hilarious,” Hartel added.
Consequently, despite having shut its 200 stores in Thailand earlier in the year, the brand is now expecting growth.
The market’s growing affinity for personalised shopping experiences is part of what market research firm IDC calls a “rethinking” of customer engagement.
“Research has found that 73 per cent of consumers say a differentiated experience, not just an acceptable experience, i…

President Donald Trump claims that TikTok will “be out of business in the United States” on September 15th if its Chinese parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell it and provide the US Treasury Department with “a lot of money,” backing off an earlier claim that he planned to “ban” the app over the weekend. This follows reports that Microsoft negotiated a 45-day window to acquire the company, something it confirmed yesterday in a blog post.
Trump announced the news at the White House today and elaborated on how he believes Microsoft or another “big,” “secure,” and “very American” company should buy TikTok. He argued that it should buy the entirety of the company from ByteDance – not just its operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – because “I think buying 30 percent is complicated.”
The president also asserted that any deal will have to send “a very substantial portion” of the price into the Treasury Department’s coffers. He didn’t explain what this meant, but he offered an ominous comparison between the US government’s relationship with companies and the relationship between a landlord and a tenant. “Right now they don’t have any rights unless we give it to them, so if we’re going to give them the rights then it has to come into this country. It’s a little bit like the landlord-tenant [relationship]. Without a lease the tenant has nothing,” Trump said.
He says that TikTok will “close down on September 15th unless Microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out an appropriate deal so the Treasury, I guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money.” Microsoft’s post about buying TikTok also referenced “providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury.”
The Trump administration has been floating a “ban” on TikTok for several weeks without much detail, citing a mix of potential national security threats and a desire to punish China for its handling of the coronavirus. In the past week, the administration has settled on requiring ByteDance to spin off TikTok – something that the administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) can require.
CFIUS can penalize ByteDance if it doesn’t sell off TikTok, but Trump’s “ban” language has much more sweeping implications. There’s virtually no precedent for the US government literally denying American access to an app, particularly one that isn’t charged with any legal violations directly relating to that ban. Trump also hasn’t explained in detail how he would effect this kind of American equivalent to China’s Great Firewall. However, a spinoff of TikTok – particularly by Microsoft – looks increasingly likely.

It was an unprecedented sight: A SpaceX capsule – the first to carry NASA astronauts
– bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico, surrounded by private boaters, one of them bearing a flag supporting President Donald Trump.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida Sunday (Aug. 2), returning astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth after their historic Demo-2 test flight. But shortly after that splashdown, private boats swarmed the space capsule, apparently hoping for a closer look.

“That was not what we were anticipating,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a post-splashdown briefing. “After they landed, the boats just came in. We need to do a better job next time for sure.”
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NASA TV views of the Crew Dragon showed many recreational boaters encroaching on SpaceX’s recovery zone, some of them floating quite close to the capsule. One of the boats prominently displayed a Trump flag as it circled the capsule.

Bridenstine said the U.S. Coast Guard did clear the landing zone ahead of the splashdown, and the landing itself had no issues. The SpaceX recovery ship Go Navigator recovered the capsule about 30 minutes after splashdown, but not before the private boats arrived.
“That capsule was in the water for a good amount of time and those boats just made a beeline for it,” Bridenstine said. “There are things that we’re going to look at, that we need to do better at, for sure.”
SpaceX recovery crews in fast boats worked to push back the encroaching boaters. Still, the private boats could be seen in an arc around SpaceX’s Go Navigator as the retrieval team plucked the capsule from the sea.

“The lesson learned here is that we probably need more Coast Guard assets,and maybe more SpaceX and NASA assets as well,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in the post-splashdown briefing. “This was a demonstration mission. This is the time that you go learn about these things, and we’ll certainly be better prepared next time.”
SpaceX launched the Demo-2 mission May 30, sending Behnken and Hurley to the International Space Station on a two-month shakedown cruise for the spacecraft. The mission, a crewed demonstration flight that followed a 2019 unpiloted test flight to the station, marked the final trial before SpaceX begins operational crewed flights for NASA in late September.

SpaceX is one of two commercial companies with multi-billion-dollar contracts to fly astronauts to and from the space station for NASA. The other company, Boeing, will use its own capsule Starliner, which is designed to land on land.
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