Ooh la la! France will now pay you €4,000 (nearly US $4,000) to swap your old polluting car for a cleaner, more efficient, and more city-appropriate electric bicycle. That marks a major increase in the incentive designed to improve French cities.
Pedal bicycles are also included in the generous incentive package, though e-bikes are contributing to one of the biggest jumps in cycling ever…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 22, 2022
August 23, 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…
Google TV update will speed up performance and automatically free up storage on Chromecast
August 23, 2022
The Chromecast with Google TV launched to mostly positive feedback, but the product has since been hit by performance and, even more so, storage problems. Now, a new update is working to address both of these concerns.
Google is today announcing a new update for the…
Discord for Android won’t use Bluetooth headsets, for many
August 23, 2022
In recent weeks, Discord’s Android app has been having issues with sending call audio to Bluetooth headsets.
While originally starting out as a place for gamers to get connected, replacing older apps like Skype, Discord has rebranded itself as a home for communities of all varieties. Besides offering individual and group text chats, arguably the core use case for Discord is voice and video…
This app beeps every time your computer sends data to Google
August 23, 2022
A developer and privacy advocate has created a demo app that beeps every time your computer sends any data to Google. Spoiler alert — it’s a very noisy app.
On the internet today, larger tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon can sometimes feel like inescapable…
Google’s newest Android app on the Play Store is called “Online Insights Study” to allow “registered users to participate in market research.”
A site attached to the Play Store listing explains that the “Online Insights Study is a research project conducted by…
In recent days, the Meet merger widely rolled out to Google Duo for Android and iOS. Google is now readying to start the next phase where the Meet icon and name replaces Duo’s following a mobile app update.
Update 8/22: Like on Android, the iOS app earlier this month received the new Meet homescreen and splash screen. However, the blue app icon and name (“Google Duo”) remained unchanged…
How to set automatic backups for Google Photos
August 23, 2022
Situations in which you lose all of your precious memories and photos are very rare, although it can happen. In those cases, it’s extremely beneficial to have backups of all of your Google Photo images stored somewhere safe. This guide will take you through creating…
Android Auto 7.8 stops working for dozens of smartphone models, ‘phone not compatible’ error
August 23, 2022
A growing number of Android Auto users around the world are reporting that their connection has broken, leaving a “phone not compatible” error following the latest update.
Over the past few days, Android Auto 7.8.6 has rolled out widely to users around the world, and it…
Anna Mani, Indian meteorologist, honored with Google Doodle
August 23, 2022
Anna Mani, the meteorologist whose work helped kickstart weather forecasting in India, is honored in the latest Google Doodle.
Anna Mani was born in Peermade, Kerala, India, on August 23, 1918 — meaning today would have been her 104th birthday. Breaking from the traditional gender roles, Mani surrounded herself with literature, reading almost all of the books in her local library by the age of…
