US battery maker Proterra and multinational Komatsu partnered in January 2021 to develop electric mid-sized hydraulic excavators, and today they announced that Komatsu’s first 20-ton class lithium-ion battery electric machine is ready for debut.
Komatsu will officially launch the electric excavator next week at bauma2022, a construction equipment trade fair in Munich. It will be introduced to…
Elon Musk says Tesla (TSLA) could soon be worth more than Apple (AAPL), and the company is putting its money behind this position with a $5 to $10 billion share buyback.
Today, Tesla released its Q3 2022 financial results. The automaker delivered a small miss on…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 19, 2022
October 20, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region
October 20, 2022
The rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying.
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the “sulfate-bearing unit,” a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals.
Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, streams, and ponds left behind the…
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Konami officially revealed three new games in the Silent Hill series in a special event…
EA Sports invests $11M in women’s soccer fund, UEFA internships
October 20, 2022
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EA Sports unveiled sweeping plans to invest in the future of women’s soccer, both…
The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing support for device triggers on Assistant routines.
Google Assistant routines in the Home app have been available for quite some time at this point, but they’ve primarily been focused at using voice…
Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more
October 20, 2022
Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience and underlying technical functionality grouped under “reliability, usability and customization” tentpoles.
It starts with Material You and wallpaper-derived…
Microsoft wants to take on the Google Play Store and App Store with its own mobile game store
October 20, 2022
Both Google and Apple have come under regulatory scrutiny over the past few years due to practices with their respective mobile app stores and the lack of competition. As it turns out, Microsoft has been quietly working on its own mobile game store that would take on the…
Amid the work-from-home era, Google’s Area 120 incubator released Threadit to boost team collaboration with video messages that could be replied to at any time. This project is shutting down soon, but the Threadit team is joining Google Workspace.
Threadit wanted to do video without the “live” nature given that some teams do work in different time zones. It starts by recording your…
