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Police seized a legal cargo e-bike in UK after allegedly flawed roadside inspection.

Cops spun lifted rear wheel to prove it could go above legal 15.5 mph maximum.

Owner says officers ignored rational explanation before destroying pricey Tern GSD.

Most cyclists worry about thieves stealing their bike. One rider in the UK had a different problem entirely. His expensive e-bike was taken by police, declared illegal, and destroyed, despite the machine complying with the law all along.

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The case centers on a Tern GSD cargo bike owned by Birmingham resident Matin Zandi. The electrically assisted bicycle was reportedly worth around £6,000 ($8,000) and had been supplied through a city-backed program designed to encourage cleaner transportation options.

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According to a BBC report, the bike was seized during an operation targeting illegal high-powered electric two-wheelers such as the Sur-Ron Light Bee. Those machines often resemble bicycles but operate more like electric mopeds because they have significantly more power and require little or no pedaling.

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The problem is that Zandi’s Tern wasn’t one of them. The three-seat cargo bike’s motor assistance is restricted to the legal threshold required under UK regulations, which limits e-help to 15.5 mph (25 km/h).

Flawed Test

But officers concluded the e-bike exceeded the permitted limit after conducting a roadside test involving lifting the rear wheel and spinning the pedals manually, which easily got the digital speedo to read a much higher mph figure. It’s like propping up a Citroen 2CV on cinder blocks to prove it can do 100 mph (161 km/h).

Body camera footage reviewed by the BBC reportedly shows Zandi attempting to explain why the test didn’t demonstrate what officers believed it did. According to the report, the procedure merely showed how fast the wheel could be turned manually rather than proving the motor itself was providing illegal assistance.

Zandi said he repeatedly tried to persuade cops they had made the wrong call. “We tried to convince the police officers to accept their mistake but they didn’t,” he told the BBC.

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Possible License Penalty

The consequences went beyond losing the expensive bike. To add insult to injury, Zandi was also informed he could face a fine and penalty points on his license. He’s now challenging the decision in court with support from Cycling UK, Tern, and Birmingham Bike Foundry. Advocacy groups told the BBC similar mistakes have affected other lawful mobility devices, including equipment used by disabled riders.

For its part, West Midlands Police says it has received a complaint regarding the seizure and is reviewing the matter. Unfortunately for the owner, that review comes too late for the bike itself, which, despite being worth as much as a decent used car , has already been reduced to scrap.

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Google Meet will automatically organize notes, transcripts, and recordings in a new Google Meet folder in Drive.

Each meeting gets its own subfolder, while recurring meetings will keep all instances together.

Attendees with access will also see shortcuts, with the rollout starting today.

Yesterday, we saw that Google Meet is making it easier to find the files associated with your calls on its redesigned web homepage . Google is now tackling the same problem on the Drive side, with meeting notes, transcripts, and recordings set to be organized automatically rather than left loose in the host’s storage.

According to a new Google Workspace update , these files will be uploaded to a new Google Meet folder in the host’s My Drive after each meeting. Inside that folder, Google will create separate subfolders for individual meetings, while different instances of the same recurring meeting will be grouped together.

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Famed British political figure Count Binface has issued a public demand to Sega to quit horsing around and finish Shenmue 4, and suggested the company may be nationalized by the UK government if it doesn't move with sufficient haste.

For those not in the know, Count Binface is not an entirely serious political figure: He's really more akin to Darth Vader with a giant trash can for a helmet, whose policies include things like banning loud snacks from movie theaters, a price cap of £1 on croissants, nationalizing Adele, and "the hand dryer in the gents' toilet at the Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge, to be moved to a more sensible position ."

The Count—writer Jonathan David Harvey in his unbinned form—is a novelty politician, but he does run in actual elections in the UK, and he's been in the news lately for facing off against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, best known as one of the leading figures of Brexit, in the ongoing by-election in the riding of Clacton. As such, he's a busy guy, but he still has time to share thoughts on the state of Shenmue.

"I need to say a galactic 'hello' to Sega on behalf of the Shenmue fans," Count Binface says in the clip. "Now, I'm not just saying 'hello,' Sega. I've got a little bone to pick with you, because the fans would like to campaign for an update from you, Sega, about Shenmue 4."

🚨 BREAKING: @countbinface.bsky.social has cast his vote for Shenmue and now he has a message for @sega-west.bsky.social and @sega.jp The campaign continues. The people have spoken.#LetsGetShenmue4

— @shenmuedojo.com ( @shenmuedojo.com.bsky.social ) 2026-07-22T21:30:55.073Z

After a quick complaint about Shenmue 3 ending on a cliffhanger that remains unresolved, the Count continued: "I wonder whether Sega needs to be nationalized along with Adele. What do you say? Shall we harness the power of the Shenmue to ensure that there is no delay with updates ever again? I quite like the sound of that. I'd like to reboot Sega World in London's Trocadero and have old Sonic the Hedgehog back in his prime. Oh, that would be wonderful. But hey, I digress."

He might actually be serious on that last point: As noted by Metro , Count Binface's manifesto when he was running for mayor of London in 2021 included turning the Trocadero "back into a truly top-notch video arcade."

His demands of Sega may be somewhat less pure, however. As Metro pointed out, the video was shared by the Shenmue Dojo fan site but hasn't appeared on Count Binface's own socials, suggesting that this whole thing may have been an op. Count Binface does in fact have a Cameo page, after all—political campaigns are expensive.

Still, as political corruption goes it's pretty small potatoes, and even if he is taking stacks of cash in brown paper bags, Count Binface is expressing a legitimate concern. Shenmue 3 is now seven years old and while it was quite good , it wasn't conclusive. There was excitement a-plenty when a purported Shenmue 4 trailer leaked in 2025, but that turned out to be a fake , and there's been nothing since to suggest that the game is in development. Will an edict from Count Binface change that situation? Probably not, but it can't hurt to try.

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Faraday Future continues to struggle for survival as shares plummet.

In order to stay listed, they’re doing a 1-for-150 reverse stock split.

Company is now focused on robots, but hasn’t given up on vehicles.

Faraday Future doesn’t seem to know what they are anymore as they’ve pivoted from an ultra-luxury EV to a minivan no one seemingly wanted. The company eventually hit pause on the latter model and decided to embrace robots.

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Their aimless and seemingly random nature hasn’t thrilled investors, and their stock is down a staggering 92% year-to-date. It’s trading at just eight cents as of this writing and that’s slightly above the 52 week low of $0.066, but it puts them in danger of being delisted.

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In an effort to remain on the Nasdaq, the “global Embodied AI ecosystem company” has announced a 1-for-150 reverse stock split. It will occur on July 24 and the move means that for every 150 shares owned, investors will get one ‘new’ share. The split will reduce the number of shares from 384,527,828 to around 2,563,519.

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More importantly, it will boost the share price to around $12. This will bring it in compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum of $1 . Of course, the company’s numerous problems remain and there’s little doubt the stock price will continue falling after the split.

Despite the grim news, Faraday Future painted this as a positive development that will establish a “sustainable compliance buffer” and “enhance the attractiveness of the company’s common stock to investors.” As the firm noted, institutional investors, professional funds, and some trading platforms avoid low‑priced securities such as penny stocks.

The company didn’t have much else to say, but noted cumulative sales, shipments, and deliveries of robots has surpassed 250 units. This appears to be Faraday’s main focus these days, but the company did announce a patent for a hybrid transmission system in June. At the time, they said it was “expected to be incorporated into the broader AIHER [AI Hybrid Extended-Range] system under development for future generations of FX models.”

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