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This oil giant and Hertz are building a massive fast-charging network for EV rentals starting at LAX

October 29, 2022
Bp Pulse, the global oil leader’s charging infrastructure unit, is teaming up with Hertz to build a network of EV fast chargers in high-demand locations such as airports. The project aims to accelerate EV adoption by providing charging solutions where they are most needed. In September, Hertz and Bp signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a national EV charging network. The plans…
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NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission

October 29, 2022
. NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go…
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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for the Moon’s Water Ice

October 29, 2022
. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for the Moon’s Water Ice Set for a November launch, the small satellite mission will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole. It’s known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don’t yet…
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GamingNews

Prime Gaming offers Fallout: New Vegas among November titles

October 29, 2022
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit Next 2022? All sessions are now available for viewing in our on-demand library. Click here to start watching. Amazon revealed the free games it’s offering to its Prime Gaming subscribers in November. These include Fallout: New…
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Ringke now offers black and brown leather Pixel Watch bands for less than Google’s

October 29, 2022
The third-party Pixel Watch band market is still sparse, making any new band bound to get some attention. Now, it looks like Ringke has a leather band to offer for the Pixel Watch, coming in at just a few dollars under Google’s official options. For the Pixel Watch, Google decided to use a proprietary band connection. While neat and definitely secure, it does pose some problems. Mainly, it…
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MobileNews

New Google Phone, Messages, and Contacts app icons roll out [U]

October 29, 2022
In addition to introducing a handful of Messages features, Google is rolling out new icons for the SMS/RCS app, as well as Phone and Contacts. Update 10/28: Just a week after the icons were announced, Phone by Google has been updated with the new logo. The Phone icon is…
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Google details benefits of 64-bit-only Android phones, like more RAM, starting with Pixel 7

October 29, 2022
Google today officially confirmed that the “Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are the first Android phones to support only 64-bit apps” and detailed the benefits. By dropping support for 32-bit code and Android applications built that way, Google highlights several tentpoles, starting with how 64-bit apps “run faster because they have access to extra registers and instructions that aren’t…
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