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IT	気になる、記になる…	Amazon、｢Google Pixel Watch｣の取扱い＆予約受付を開始	https://taisy0.com/2022/10/07/163368.html	matte	2022-10-07 13:04:40
IT	InfoQ	MIT Technology Review Insights Survey on Zero Trust in Cybersecurity	https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/zero-trust-cybersecurity/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global	MIT Technology Review Insights Survey on Zero Trust in CybersecurityMIT Technology Review released their findings from the Zero trust closes the end user gap in cybersecurity on Sep This report focused on the approach to cybersecurity and mainly demonstrates how organizations go beyond passwords to embrace a new approach to defending against cyberattacks By Feynman Zhou	2022-10-07 13:57:00
IT	ITmedia 総合記事一覧	[ITmedia Mobile] 「d Wi-Fi」「ドコモビジネスWi-Fi」が利用しづらく　原因は確認中	https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/2210/07/news204.html	dwifi	2022-10-07 22:22:00
AWS	AWS Media Blog	Case Study: Tabcorp enhances personalized interactive voice response with AWS	https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/case-study-tabcorp-enhances-personalized-interactive-voice-response-with-aws/	Case Study Tabcorp enhances personalized interactive voice response with AWSTabcorp one of Australia s top gaming and entertainment companies operates betting across locations for multiple sports and race types Even as customers flock to digital platforms to place bets interactive voice response IVR remains a critical part of the company s business to accommodate customers that prefer telecommunication To modernize its IVR system Tabcorp enlisted …	2022-10-07 13:44:28
python	Pythonタグが付けられた新着投稿 - Qiita	Yolov5でSemanticSegmentationができるって知ってた？	https://qiita.com/john-rocky/items/e8146317a20be79c4c8d	gitclonehtt	2022-10-07 22:27:17
python	Pythonタグが付けられた新着投稿 - Qiita	【Pytorch】MNISTのCGAN（Conditional GAN）を実装する	https://qiita.com/gensal/items/527e350ca7cc4c9851e9	cganconditionalgan	2022-10-07 22:15:57
AWS	AWSタグが付けられた新着投稿 - Qiita	Microsoft Defender for Cloud を用いて、AWS 環境を CSPM で監視する	https://qiita.com/hisnakad/items/96799ac5092f18b97b9a	cspmcloudse	2022-10-07 22:07:37
Azure	Azureタグが付けられた新着投稿 - Qiita	Microsoft Defender for Cloud を用いて、AWS 環境を CSPM で監視する	https://qiita.com/hisnakad/items/96799ac5092f18b97b9a	cspmcloudse	2022-10-07 22:07:37
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	8 Thrifty Android Apps to Save Money on Car Expenses	https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/android-apps-car-expenses/	mechanic	2022-10-07 13:45:14
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	26 Awesome Uses for a Raspberry Pi	https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/different-uses-raspberry-pi/	raspberry	2022-10-07 13:45:14
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	How to Batch Crop and Resize Photos in Adobe Lightroom	https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/batch-crop-photos-lightroom/	multiple	2022-10-07 13:30:14
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	8 Great Mobile Apps for Breaking Your Worst Bad Habits	https://www.makeuseof.com/mobile-apps-break-bad-habits/	stubborn	2022-10-07 13:30:14
海外TECH	MakeUseOf	Insta360 X3: Never Buy a Boring Action Camera Again	https://www.makeuseof.com/insta360-x3-review/	Insta X Never Buy a Boring Action Camera AgainThe X brings marked improvements for single lens mode and photography but those filming video needn t upgradeーthe X is magical enough already	2022-10-07 13:05:14
海外TECH	DEV Community	Securing GraphQL	https://dev.to/polterguy/securing-graphql-2jek	Securing GraphQLA month ago Oscar posted about how he hacked BeReal by bypassing the business logic BeReal had implemented on the client and injected his own business logic BTW nice dog Oscar DOscar succeeded because BeReal created their product using Firebase which of course makes it very tempting to write business logic on the client the same way GraphQL makes it tempting to put business logic on the client When the client is responsible for applying the business logic you basically have zero security for reasons Oscar explains in his article I like to refer to it as follows Business Logic Injection AttacksAnd this is a problem with not only Firebase but also Hasura and Supabase For junior developers looking to create something beautiful of course implementing everything in frontend JavaScript code and using GraphQL to access the server sounds very tempting However this is for all practical concerns the equivalent of drilling a hole in the boat you re sitting in It s madness There exists methods to secure GraphQL Firebase and PostgREST of course such that injecting malicious business logic becomes impossible However all solutions basically implies turning OFF GraphQL construction on the frontend client At which point obviously neither GraphQL nor PostgREST nor Firebase have much legitimate remaining value proposition left The solution proposed by Hasura which is to implement business logic in Stored Procedures and Database Functions really doesn t deserve a comment to be honest with you And their remaining solutions which is to create your own HTTP REST API implies you no longer have any value from GraphQL and you might as well manipulate and retrieve your data directly from your HTTP API like Aista does Shameless plug I m the CEO of Aista Notice of course implementing your own HTTP REST API is a solution to the GraphQL business logic injection security threat However if you have to write your own business logic HTTP REST API why use Hasura Firebase or Supabase then The entire value proposition for developers wanting to use these tech stacks is that they can simply start churning out JavaScript code iOS code Android SDK code connect to GraphQL Firebase or PostgREST and their apps are done As the use case with BeReal clearly illustrates this is not only not a solution but it s basically the equivalent of putting business logic validation into the hands of your users Let me illustrate the problem for you in case you don t get it Create a Facebook postIntercept the invocation towards FacebookAdd the flag isAd to your invocationSet your budget to trillion dollarsSet the flag hasPaid to trueCongratulations you re now running a trillion dollar Facebook marketing campaign without paying This is a fundamental problem with allowing the client to construct queries and is not something that can be fixed without adding code that literally validates every single query you re accepting on the server At which point of course the validation logic becomes a bajillion times larger than your original codebase required to get some MVP up running for a frontend app that seems to be working perfectly initially Hence the cost of your rapid MVP is that you cannot set it into production and you ll have to spend possibly times as much time to secure it before you can publish it This is basically a variation of why whitelisting activities the user is allowed to perform is the only way to apply security and why most security experts will tell you that blacklisting activities is cheese doodles security GraphQL Firebase PostgREST Hasura and Supabase are basically whitelisting EVERYTHING Implying the only method to secure your queries is to start blacklisting things unless you create a strongly typed API and intercepts EVERYTHING you re passing into these service providers before transmitting it to your data storage The solutionIn the video below I am proposing how to rapidly turn off GraphQL construction on the edge by using Aista Magic Cloud as your own interceptor for then to hide the JWT token going towards your GraphQL Firebase or PostgREST endpoint and only allowing Magic to access your JWT token while doing validation in your Magic cloudlet With Magic this should be a simple job requiring maybe one or two days to fix To get started securing your GraphQL endpoints you can use the link below Signup for Aista Magic CloudDisclaimer I am the CEO of Aista and you might want to ask your senior developer s if the above assessment of the security threats related to GraphQL PostgREST and Firebase is correct or not before trusting my words After all both Hasura Supabase and Firebase are competitors of Aista Just sayin Below is the code I am using in the video arguments email string description Intercepts our GraphQL endpoint Endpoint we re intercepting endpoint Lambda object executed as an intercepted lambda object before invocation to HTTP endpoint before validators mandatory x arguments email validators email x arguments email This is where you would parametrise your above before object with for instance arguments given by the client Evaluating before lambda object eval x before Retrieving Hasura s JWT token from configuration settingsconfig get hasura jwt Forwarding arguments given to endpoint to intercepted endpoint add x http post payload get nodes x arguments Invoking the intercepted HTTP endpoint http post x endpoint headers Content Type application json Authorization x config get convert true payload Sanity checking invocation to endpoint if not and mte x http post int lt x http post int lambda log error Something went wrong as we invoked our intercepted HTTP endpoint endpoint x endpoint status x http post result x http post content throw Intercepted endpoint did not return success public true status Return result to caller add x get nodes x http post content return	2022-10-07 13:16:55
海外TECH	DEV Community	Debouncing in JavaScript	https://dev.to/zt4ff_1/debouncing-in-javascript-1cp6	Debouncing in JavaScriptImagine your web application makes requests to an API endpoint and each request has a price debouncing the request operation may save you a great deal of money There are cases where you have long running operations and these operations are in a position where they can be fired frequently by your application users Such operations invoked continuously may affect the performance of your web application Debouncing is a technique that ensures long running operations are not fired so often It delays the execution of that particular program A common example is a search operation that is fired whenever a user types a query in an input field Debouncing the operation would mean waiting for the user to stop typing for a particular time usually milliseconds before running the search operation Let s write a simple implementation here function debounce func time let timer return args gt clearTimeout timer timer setTimeout gt func apply this args time Now we can create a mock project to see how this may function in a real application lt index html gt lt html gt lt head gt lt title gt Mock Search Page lt title gt lt head gt lt body gt lt label for search gt Enter your search lt label gt lt input id search type text name search gt lt script gt const nameElement document querySelector search function debounce func time let timer return args gt clearTimeout timer timer setTimeout gt func apply this args time const debouncedSearchFunction debounce event gt console log querying event target value nameElement addEventListener keyup event gt debouncedSearchFunction event lt script gt lt body gt lt html gt In the code above debounce returns a function and keeps a local variable timer they both form a closure timer acts like a state to manage the timing In the event listener callback we call the function that is returned by debouce and as we can see the arguments in this function are passed to the func argument using the method Function prototype apply ConclusionAs I mentioned in the introduction of this article in a case where each of your requests to an API endpoint is paid and the operations can be fired by the actions of a user Debouncing the operations can be done to create a form of throughput per time milliseconds I recently got nominated for two categories in Noonies by Hackernoon You can vote for me Kayode Oluwasegun as a sign of support using these two links	2022-10-07 13:03:52
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	One million Facebook users had their passwords stolen by fake apps	https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/07/one-million-facebook-users-had-their-passwords-stolen-by-fake-apps?utm_medium=rss	One million Facebook users had their passwords stolen by fake appsSecurity researchers at Meta uncovered over malicious apps from the App Store that stole credentials from Facebook users Facebook app logoThese apps found on iOS and Android posed as VPNs photo editors games business apps and other categories such as horoscope apps However the vast majority of the apps were found on the Google Play Store Read more	2022-10-07 13:47:43
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	Daily deals Oct. 7: $200 off M2 MacBook Pro, AirPods for $90, $100 off iPad mini 6, more	https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/07/daily-deals-oct-7-200-off-m2-macbook-pro-airpods-for-90-100-off-ipad-mini-6-more?utm_medium=rss	Daily deals Oct off M MacBook Pro AirPods for off iPad mini moreFriday s best deals include off AirPods Pro off Focal Elegia closed back headphones off inch Smart Keyboard Folio and much more Best deals October AppleInsider checks online stores daily to uncover discounts and offers on hardware and other products including Apple devices smart TVs accessories and other items The best offers are compiled into our regular list for our readers to use and save money Read more	2022-10-07 13:02:47
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	Deals: get an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro for free with wireless carrier promos	https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/09/deals-get-an-iphone-14-iphone-14-pro-for-free-with-wireless-carrier-promos?utm_medium=rss	Deals get an iPhone iPhone Pro for free with wireless carrier promosSnag yourself an iPhone at a discount or save money on an unlimited data plan by checking out U S carriers latest promotional offers Wireless carriers are offering up to off the iPhone lineup Verizon Read more	2022-10-07 13:53:42
海外TECH	Engadget	Spotify is reportedly dropping 11 original podcasts	https://www.engadget.com/spotify-cancels-some-original-podcasts-134405125.html?src=rss	Spotify is reportedly dropping original podcastsSpotify may be tempering its podcast push A TechCrunchsource claims the streaming service is cutting original podcasts from its Gimlet and Parcast studios including How to Save a Planet Crimes of Passion and in the second quarter of Horoscope Today The cancellations will also involve layoffs of quot less than quot percent of Spotify s podcast team with some workers moving to other podcasts The company said it doesn t comment on employee changes The shakeup has also seen Spotify assign new managing directors for both Gimlet and Parcast the source said Spotify Studios and The Ringer remain untouched This is the first time Spotify has axed multiple podcasts at the same time While the reported insider didn t know the exact reasoning behind the move it s thought that the service is dropping underperforming shows to help it concentrate on full fledged exclusives ranging from existing hits like Batman Unburied through to upcoming projects A pruning effort like this isn t surprising if true Spotify has over original and exclusive podcasts and they re not all guaranteed to build strong audiences The strategy could not only help Spotify improve its focus but cut costs at a time when many tech companies are either slowing new hires or laying off staff in droves	2022-10-07 13:44:05
海外TECH	Engadget	The DJI Avata is a nimble cinewhoop drone for FPV novices	https://www.engadget.com/dji-avata-fpv-drone-review-133020277.html?src=rss	The DJI Avata is a nimble cinewhoop drone for FPV novicesCinewhoop drones are all the rage right now as they can dive and twist and speed through unreachable places to produce spectacular footage DJI has jumped on that trend with the Avata an FPV drone that s far removed from the company s speedy DJI model actually called the FPV Instead the Avata is more about agility and has propeller guards that make it safe to fly around people It s available with the new Goggles that are smaller and lighter than the Goggles V that come with the DJI FPV drone You can also get it with an updated Motion Controller that lets you steer the Avata by moving your wrists The system could help drone users get into the world of FPV and cinewhoop but it isn t cheap at with the Goggles and Motion Controller To find out how it compares to the FPV and other drones I enlisted my drone pilot friend Samuel to test it in a number of challenging scenarios BodyThe Avata doesn t look like any of DJI s other consumer drones To fly indoors around people or in tight spaces it has prop guards and a small inch square by inch high body At grams it s much lighter than the FPV but a bit heavier than the gram Mini Pro As such it requires registration or a license in Europe the US and many other countries The batteries use a flexible connector designed to limit crash damage DJI claims up to minutes of flight time but we generally got around minutes or even less if we flew it extremely fast That s still good for an FPV drone most are under minutes but DJI should be a bit more realistic in its marketing The Avata s battery charges in about minutes and you can get two extra batteries and a charger with the Fly More kit Samuel indicated that if he bought one for his photography business he d get six batteries at a minimum Steve Dent EngadgetI d also buy the largest microSD cards possible because the slot tucked underneath is extremely awkward to access particularly when removing a card The USB C port for transfers and charging is equally hard to get to DJI normally excels with these types of features but these are honestly serious design flaws On the plus side the Avata has GB of internal storage that can serve in a pinch Underneath are two time of flight sensors that can detect and map ground obstacles However the Avata doesn t have any forward facing sensors so its main protection is the prop guards and rugged design The Avata Pro View Combo ships with the DJI Motion Controller as the only way to fly the drone You can also use the FPV Remote Controller but it s sold separately for Also included in that bundle are the new Goggles not to be confused with the Goggles V They re smaller and lighter than the latter and use micro LED instead of OLED panels with p resolution for each eye compared to p on Goggles V You can use the V with the Avata and FPV but the Goggles only work with the Avata The extra sharpness and small size are nice but you can t wear glasses underneath the Goggles Instead they have built in diopters to correct your eyesight If you have astigmatism DJI includes lens mountings that you can send back to have your prescription made Samuel wasn t crazy about the diopter While they gave him a clear view he often had to remove the headset to see the drone which meant he needed to put his glasses back on He found the Goggles V easier as he can wear his glasses underneath The Goggles let you fly the Avata with no mobile phone as they have a mini version of the DJI Fly app built in If you want to let others have a view you can connect a smartphone via USB C port on the side though The Goggles control the Avata via DJI s Ocusync O providing a Mbps video feed from up to miles away However we noticed that the Goggles V provide a stronger feed over a longer distance probably because of the larger antennas PerformanceSteve Dent EngadgetThe Avata is a blast to fly but it s not as fast as some FPV drones It tops out at MPH in manual mode well under the MPH of DJI s FPV And that s in manual mode sport and normal modes are considerably slower at MPH and MPH respectively It has awesome maneuverability though letting you fly in places you d never take another drone We took it around handball players during a practice between our legs through the small gap in a sign around a castle rooftop and indoors with people and fragile things around It s also tough We had a number of crashes that would have killed an open prop drone It can also bounce off a person without doing them any harm Considering that the Avata might be the first FPV drone for many people selling it with the Motion Controller is a good idea but not as the only option DJI should also sell a bundle with the FPV Controller which offers more precise control for advanced users As it stands now you have to pay an extra to get it The Motion Controller is easy to use you simply point it where you want to fly and pull the trigger to speed up To climb tilt the controller upward and apply power and reverse that for descents A large button on top brings it to a hover and the red button lets you take off and land Steve Dent EngadgetIt has some limitations though You can t transition vertically or fly backwards with the Motion Controller so you have to use a button to land It also lacks precision especially indoors In fact we found that without a GPS lock inside the Avata was sometimes unflyable with the Motion Controller If you have some experience the FPV Controller is a better option It allows you to engage manual mode to cruise faster fly low to the ground and zag between trees or rooftops Inside you can fly precisely between rooms objects and people just like you may have seen in some of those cool cinewhoop FPV videos Manual mode also opens up flips dives climbs hairpin turns rolls and other tricks Just bear in mind that there are no sensor safeguards While Avata drone is tough it s not unbreakable and could really hurt someone at MPH It s also more unstable so flying it requires serious skill It is a ton of fun though with the speed and lack of safeguards providing a real adrenaline rush that you don t get from other drones Video qualityMost so called Cinewhoop FPV drones use external cameras like the GoPro Hero Bones or just regular stripped down GoPros but the Avata has one built in It uses the same size inch sensor as the new Action camera with percent more area than the FPV Like the Action it has normal wide and ultra wide options with up to a degree field of view And on top of the built in gimbal and RockSteady smoothing it has the HorizonView option to keep things level even if the drone is tilting heavily The gimbal and RockSteady stabilization keep video smooth despite wind or abrupt maneuvers And the HorizonView option worked as advertised keeping things level for even when we were slaloming between trees It supports K video at up to fps or p and K at fps with the Goggles V but only fps with the Goggles It s not ideal that it has slower speeds than the headset it s sold with but it s apparently due to the higher resolution The sensor has megapixels for shooting photos if you ever want to do that Considering the camera s small size image quality is solid Video is sharp and colors are accurate though they can be a bit oversaturated If you need a bit more dynamic range it has DJI s D Cinelike mode It s not bad in low light for shooting cityscapes or well lit interiors with an ISO range up to in expanded mode You still need a decent amount of light though or video will get blocky and grainy in a hurry If it gets too bad it s unfixable in post so make sure to have enough light if shooting indoors Overall it s a very solid camera though not up to say GoPro s standards The camera is part of a holistic package though combined with the Avata s small size and maneuverability it gets shots no other off the shelf drones can Wrap upSteve Dent EngadgetIn sum the Avata is a fun rugged and maneuverable little drone that produces great footage but it does have some weird flaws and limitations The Goggles limit the slow motion and aren t ideal if you wear glasses Plus the Motion Controller doesn t allow for precise FPV flying and the microSD slot and USB C port are poorly positioned It s also fairly costly Though the base drone is it s with the Goggles and Motion Controller plus another with the Fly More kit If you add the FPV Remote Controller that s another By comparison the FPV bundled with the Goggles V and older Motion Controller costs Still there aren t many other ready to fly drones that can do what it does If you want a highly maneuverable and relatively safe Cinewhoop style drone without building one yourself it s really in a class by itself	2022-10-07 13:30:20
海外TECH	Engadget	Acer says the Swift Edge is the ‘world’s lightest’ 16-inch OLED laptop	https://www.engadget.com/acer-swift-edge-lightweight-laptop-131538302.html?src=rss	Acer says the Swift Edge is the world s lightest inch OLED laptopAcer has unveiled a new lightweight laptop that targets on the go professionals in a world where more and more people are choosing to work from home or away from the office The Swift Edge is a inch OLED laptop with a magnesium aluminum chassis that s only inch thin and only weighs pounds That s lighter than the inch M MacBook Air that weighs pounds or the inch LG Gram that weighs pounds nbsp Its screen is a K OLED display with a Hz refresh rate surrounded by a narrow bezel that gives it a percent screen to body ratio The model is powered by AMD Ryzen and Pro processors that come with integrated RDNA graphics allowing users to play modern games in p It also comes with GB of LPDDR memory that s upgradable to BG and either GB or TB of SSD storage The device s Wh cell battery can last up to hours based on the company s video playback tests and up to hours based on its web browsing test results nbsp Other features include an FHD x webcam and support for Microsoft s Pluton security processor architecture which provides additional protection for Windows PCs In addition the laptop has a fingerprint reader and a Noble Wedge Lock slot Acer s first Swift Edge laptop will be available this month in North America for prices starting at In Europe Middle East and Africa prices begin at € while in China prices start at RMB	2022-10-07 13:15:38
海外TECH	Engadget	Welcome to the age of the cargo bike	https://www.engadget.com/cargo-cycling-climate-change-emissions-babboe-130049736.html?src=rss	Welcome to the age of the cargo bikeAs the need for cleaner more sustainable transport becomes ever more urgent I ve noticed a familiar pattern in conversations on the topic Someone will point out that bikes are a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly reduce congestion and are often faster than cars in cities Others respond saying that bikes can t possibly replace cars for a multitude of reasons Riding on roads is dangerous it requires a fit body it makes you get all sweaty it s not ideal for trips into the office and bikes can t protect you from the rain The other objection is that a standard bike can only carry one person making it useless for the times when you need to carry multiple people or lots of stuff Bikes can t be used to ferry kids on the school run or haul a week s worth of groceries and so it s pointless to look at them Except of course bikes have always been able to do those things sometimes more efficiently than a car SUV or truck Cargo bikes offer the capacity to carry multiple people at once and or haul sizable loads of stuff with very little trouble It s this form of cycling that may provide the easiest win for both individuals and cities to help solve the climate crisis The argument that you need to be physically fit to ride if that s even true doesn t really apply any more given the benefit of electrification It means that modern cargo bikes can rid dense city streets of delivery vans cluttering up our roads and SUVs doing little more than the school run And this isn t a dispatch from some far flung utopia but something that might become massively popular as a looming fuel crisis causes the price of fuel to skyrocket The BakfietsRUBEN RAMOS via Getty ImagesIt s worth saying that cargo bikes are nothing new in the days before the car was king cargo bikes were used by many In Europe before the second world war cargo bikes were a common sight on the streets used by grocers tradespeople and families to carry goods and people In the post war era and the age of car centric reconstruction that followed cargo bikes were left a curiosity in many countries save of course their use to sell ice cream or other food at funfairs festivals and markets There are roughly four types of cargo bike in common use today although none of these terms are official and there s plenty of blurring on the edges Cargo Bikes for instance are stretch limousine versions of regular two wheeled bikes with a small cargo section behind the front wheel and in front of the rider Then there are Box Trikes with two wheels up front and a much larger box between them while the rider steers from behind Now both of these can be described as Bakfiets from the Dutch “box bike but there s a world between the two and three wheeled versions A more nebulous category is the Longtail a regular bicycle with a longer load bearing frame behind the rider Instead of a pannier rack the frame can hold a small cargo box or a bench seat that can hold an adult or two children Bikes like Tern s GSD or Yuba s Spicy Curry are examples of the type of bike I m talking about here Finally there are Cargo Trikes and Cargo Quad Cycles where the rider sits up front and there s a hefty box mounted on the two rear wheels EAV s Cubed for instance is already being adopted by some major logistics companies Obviously three wheeled Bakfiets can also be called Cargo Trikes but I m trying to keep the definitions clear here The BabboeDaniel CooperThe Netherlands already underwent its dramatic transition into a cycling first society and is the nominal home of the cargo bike Its bikes are designed not just for one or two people but families of up to five and I felt compelled to try one before lecturing people on the future of transport Raleigh the British distributors of several Dutch bicycles leant me a Babboe Curve E which is arguably the SUV of the cycling world The Curve E is big beefy and relatively expensive in Europe it retails for € The Curve E s box has a volume of around liters gallons and a load capacity of kg pounds with two benches running along the front and back sides On each side are two three point harnesses and the bike is designed to carry up to four small children comfortably In the US you can buy a more powerful mid drive version of the Curve E I rode from Going Dutch Bicycles in New York for It s worth saying of course that the cost of importing a model like this is significant and there are domestic alternatives available for less For instance Bunch Bikes which previously featured on Shark Tank will sell you a four seater model for I ve been using the Curve E as much as I can in place of the family car trying to see which parts of our lives it can fit into My wife wasn t enthused about being a participant in this story and so I used the bike for various adventures with my two kids Of particular interest to me was if the Babboe would revolutionize the school run enabling me to save time at the start and end of each day Cleaning up our roadsLeon Neal via Getty ImagesIf you read Engadget then you already know how bad cars and trucks are for climate change air quality and congestion The rise of e commerce supercharged by COVID has seen a massive surge in fossil fuel powered delivery vehicles on city streets And that s not good for congestion air quality or emissions But cargo cycling has already been found to be something of a silver bullet for all of the problems caused by this surge in heavy goods vehicles on our streets Last year Dr Ersilia Verlingheri at the University of Westminster found that a cargo bike is times faster than a van to make deliveries Using GPS data strapped to both bike and truck couriers she found that the bikes had a faster average speed and reduced carbon emissions by percent compared to a diesel vehicle and percent compared to an electric van The study focused on London and found that there are more than vans working in the city occupying square meters of road space Dr Verlingheri s study found that more than half of all motorized freight could be completed by a bike instead of a van And that the benefits of doing so are staggering including tens of thousands of hours lost to traffic jams and several hundred thousand tonnes of CO not being released into the atmosphere A smaller study that focused on Seattle found that electric assisted cargo bikes were more cost effective than vans in densely populated areas such as the hearts of major cities And that benefits of bikes were magnified when you added in the extra effort needed to find parking and the second order costs of owning a truck Not to mention of course the cost of buying the truck keeping it fueled maintained as well as the necessary insurances and permits to ensure it s road legal ZedifyDaniel CooperOne company already well ahead of this argument is Zedify a British courier business making “last mile deliveries in major cities It exclusively uses low and zero emission vehicles with the bulk of its fleet made up with a number of cargo trikes The managing director of the Norwich branch of the company Richard Jennings talked me through the benefits of a bike first delivery fleet The first being the cost the second being the relative speed compared to deliveries made by a light truck Jennings explained that most major freight companies operate large depots at business parks far outside a population center Each van is loaded full with parcels before being sent in to cover a planned route that will take the bulk of the day to complete Zedify s model by contrast uses a smaller hub in the center of a city where parcels in bulk are dropped off and then loaded on a smaller fleet of cargo trikes These trikes will then do multiple routes each day with riders able to choose their own routing in order to avoid cyclist unfriendly roads and dodge traffic jams On paper that sounds less efficient but in practice Jennings said that it was significantly better and Zedify deliveries are often a lot faster than expected It s also significantly cheaper since all of the major capital costs associated with maintaining a fleet of vans are eliminated The local setup at least uses cargo trikes from specialist provider Iceni Cycles based in Wiltshire It sells its heavy duty delivery trike for £ around or leases them for periods of up to five years for £ a week While many fleet companies have to spend enormous sums on regular maintenance Jennings can employ a single bike mechanic to run the entire fleet Zedify doesn t charge a premium for its services either meaning that any cost savings can be passed on to employees Jennings said that he s able to “take better care of his people Zedify also made local headlines for being able to maintain deliveries during one of the UK s several recent fuel crises There are limits of course a standard Iceni trike has a maximum weight limit of around pounds but Jennings says that the safe operating weight is just under After that point and hauling goods around just gets a lot harder to deal with That means bicycle couriers won t be delivering heavy goods like home appliances or beds any time soon But the bulk of smaller goods could easily be carried by bike removing a big reason for why city streets are full of vans If companies like Zedify can corner the market in shipping and grocery delivery then we should see significant benefits fairly quickly Jennings also showed me his latest purchase a Maderna Tractor a four wheeled monster capable of taking pallet sized loads It s equipped with a Bafang mid drive motor that gives it extraordinary power and speed for a bike as I learned when I rode it It s the sort of bike that you could imagine riding for a day without ever feeling fatigued and certainly one you could have a lot of fun tearing around town on Our first tripsMy adventures with the Babboe Curve E involved me taking the kids out and about around the city They were and still are delirious with excitement whenever we go out on the bike Part of this I suspect is because it offers them a substantially better view of the trip compared to sitting in the back seat of a car They like waving to people as we pass them by and shouting hello to cyclists when they in turn pass us They sit side by side on the forward facing bench preferring the view and a little bit of a squeeze to one facing the other At a standing start the bike requires a decent amount of push but I found I didn t need the electric assist at all As soon as you start moving the bike s weight and inertia seem to do a lot of the work for you to the point where I was riding the brakes more than the pedals It s also pretty quick quicker than I was comfortable riding especially with my kids in the front box and so I never felt the need to switch up the gears to go faster More often than not cars would give me a fairly generous berth I think the uniqueness of the Babboe s design on British roads meant there was some degree of curiosity Especially on the main road close to my home where cyclists are often given short shrift by motorists it was a striking change I suspect too the fact that the bike is wide enough and my ride position high enough that almost by default I was taking a more aggressive pose on the road than I would ordinarily That s important given the lack of segregated cycle infrastructure although cargo bikes are often forced onto the roads by default as most cycle lanes that do exist are designed for the two wheeled variety The cargo boomIt s clear that some of the factors that have boosted interest in cargo bikes relate to the energy crisis COVID and Russia s invasion of Ukraine have caused prices to spike and Europeans are looking for ways to cut their energy consumption across the board Back in August Cycling Industry News reported that while e bike sales which had spiked for much of were starting to slow eCargo Bikes were still growing In fact the uptake of cargo bikes has increased by percent compared to the previous year while manufacturer Urban Arrow said that it expected to see sales jump by percent across The school runMaja Hitij via Getty ImagesThe kids enjoy the Babboe so much that they ask whenever we go out if we re taking it or the car I was therefore expecting this bike to totally revolutionize the school run each day and make everyone s life a lot easier It didn t but there s one very good reason that I struggled in this instance and I want to be clear that it is actually worth doing You just need to really make sure that you know what bike you re buying and what your home terrain is like My home city is relatively flat but it does have a handful of utterly murderous hills and my kids school is at the top of one of the worst According to local maps the gentlest gradient to get up the hill is around percent which is a very significant slope The road on the other end has a maximum gradient of percent which I wouldn t attempt to walk let alone ride up Now I ve tested my cycling output to be around W and the motor on the Babboe can output W But it turns out that it s not enough given the weight of the bike to get up that degree gradient without a lot of sweating In fact it s so hard to get up there especially with kids in the front that no matter what gear I rode in or what strategies I tried with the electric assistance on full I was still a hyperventilating puddle by the time I got to the top This I should admit is something that Babboe if you check does say in its marketing materials as its bikes are designed for flat Dutch roads If a buyer expects to cover a lot of hilly ground then they should opt for the specialist Mountain version of its bike with a far more powerful mid drive motor At my child s school another parent bought the same model of Babboe that I had but said that he would be trading it in for a Mountain version at the earliest opportunity CostEducation Images via Getty ImagesThe elephant in the room is price You can expect to pay upwards of for a standard cargo cycle and some of the fancier brands start at The common response from cyclists is that people think nothing of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a car nor the hidden costs of fuel tax insurance servicing and depreciation On a total cost of ownership basis the price difference between a car and a cargo bike is stark and bikes win out nine times out of every when picking the ideal form of transportation But I can see and share the mental barriers to spending thousands on a bike for all of the obvious reasons For a start the comfort level is far less than that of a car you re exposed to the elements and you re limited by range Then there s the unspoken truth that in many countries in North America and Europe bicycle theft is effectively legal After all with law enforcement resources stretched thin and the prevalence of bicycle crime it s difficult to enforce Even in situations where people can show the location of their bike with built in GPS officers are reluctant to engage in recovery action Interesting afternoon while filming tracking my stolen bike which has an internal tracker amp can t be ridden without a code being ferried presumably in a van …from being swiped in London Bridge… To Stratford in half an hour and now finding a new resting place in East Ham…pic twitter com SBsatjvAーFaisal Islam faisalislam August I took plenty of extra precautions and rarely let my Babboe out of my sight knowing that if I d left it in the street even with a chorus of locks it was at risk That dilemma is doubled for people who have spent upwards of on an e cargo bike as their primary mode of transportation Sadly a lack of infrastructure to keep these bikes safe and secure means that they re a prime target for thieves and so you can t always trust that they ll be where you left them The solution to this problem surely would be for a manufacturer to grasp this market for itself Is it possible for someone to mass produce a low spec but solid cargo bike “for the people And when I say that I mean at the sort of prices where it d be affordable for utility rather than sport and leisure cyclists Certainly this isn t likely to come in the form of a cargo trike Ben Johnson is the founder of The Cargo Bike Company a former engineer who got into cargo biking when his kids were born and he “couldn t afford a European one He produces custom cargo bikes and trikes from his workshop in Derbyshire UK with a focus on commercial bikes as well as custom bikes adapted to assist people with mobility issues He said that the rise in cargo cycling is tied to the falling cost and greater access of electric motors which “enables people to shift loads around town He however has resisted the trend in his own bikes saying that the reliability issues are too risky for a small business like his to take on Johnson added that there are several factors that mean that cargo bikes will remain a more costly purchase for many That includes the fact that major manufacturers are “very happy to use unusual or high end engineering on its bikes including drum brakes geared hubs and stub axles But as well as the equipment hung on the frame a major difference between a regular bike and a cargo bike is the time taken to build the frame itself For instance Taiwanese maker Giant says that it can produce a bike frame in under two hours whereas it takes Johnson a full day to weld a frame and a further day to build the bike that sits on it in between it s sent off to a third party for painting That s not to say that there aren t affordable cargo bikes available but the segment that s ripest for lower prices is the longtail RadPower s RadWagon can take a lb payload on its long rear rack or that space could be used to carry two passengers for just Similarly Richard Andrews who works in local government on cycling strategy in the UK said that an even more disruptive bike is hiding in plain sight He pointed to French sports retailer Decathlon s R electric longtail as a bike that could be mass produced by the sort of manufacturer who could afford the initial outlay There are only two downsides to the R it uses a rear hub motor and it s presently out of stock FarewellIt s now time to send the Babboe back to the company for someone else to test it I didn t expect to feel as sad sending it back as I presently do mostly because of how engaged it made my kids It was fun to cycle except up and down hills and I think they enjoyed having a front row seat on the journey taking in the city around them I think that with a model better suited to the terrain a cargo e bike could remove the need for us to have a car for any trips into the city The only thing I would need is a place to securely store it when I m out and about or the reassurance that it wouldn t go missing I should at least have some hope there here in the UK the previous administration published Gear Change A Bold Vision for Cycling and Walking The paper committed to improving road design to ensure segregated cycleways with a physical barrier between cars and bikes would be built as standard It also more crucially pledged to back the construction of high quality theft deterrent bicycle parking in towns and cities as well as bike hangers for residential areas This should benefit folks who might want to switch to cargo cycling but don t have the space to store a bike in their own home Fundamentally I m a convert even if I still don t consider myself a cyclist by any means Riding a cargo bike feels natural fun and easy and is something I want to do on a regular basis especially since I d like to think my kids will still appreciate the help getting to and from places for the next five years or more I think I learned two things over the last couple of months Cargo cycling really is for everyone and don t buy a bike with a hub motor if you live anywhere 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