Earlier today, before its simultaneous opening of six stores in California, VinFast announced it has received a massive incentives package to build its EV manufacturing facility in North Carolina. $1.2 billion (with a “b”) to be exact – the largest incentive package in the history of The Old North State.
You already got the full spiel about VinFast’s background this morning, including…
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Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to sink the US plan to…
Nature Photographer Catches Bear Snoozing on Camera
July 15, 2022
Nature photographer Robert Martinez spent three years hoping to capture a brown bear taking a nap in front of his camera, something he finally achieved this month.
Wilford the Bear was caught on Martinez’s camera trap lounging for a full four hours in Angeles National Forest as he dug himself a bed and took a nap.
“I know he travels through this canyon on the pathway, so I moved my camera…
Google Maps to offer energy-efficient routes tailored to electric vehicles, hybrids, more
July 15, 2022
Google Maps is preparing to expand its fuel-efficient routing options by specifically tailoring to electric vehicles, hybrids, and more.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the…
One of the distinct advantages of having Wi-Fi speakers is the ability to wirelessly play music on multiple devices at the same time. It just so happens you can do this through the Google Home app on your phone by creating speaker groups. All you need is a few Google Home…
In Chrome, both on desktop and mobile, Progressive Web Apps are becoming more common among certain websites. The current look on Chrome for desktop is very basic and doesn’t provide much information for users prompted to install a website’s PWA. That looks to be changing in the future with Chrome for desktop testing a new dialog box for PWAs.
Over the past few years, experimentation has…
Google Maps has been making a lot of changes recently, including adding expanded support for electric vehicles, letting users see estimated toll prices, and much more. One interesting UI change may have gone unnoticed though. Google Maps has made an adjustment to the shared…
The Google-Samsung relationship has improved a great deal in recent years with the latter often appearing at the former’s keynotes, while there have been joint ad campaigns. The latest highlights a slew of Google services running on Samsung hardware.
Update 7/14: The…
EA's new 'Skate' is a free-to-play live service game
July 15, 2022
It’s been just over two years since we learned that EA was working on the first entry in the Skate series since 2010’s Skate 3. Although the publisher isn’t quite ready to announce the release window, it revealed some more details, including the fact the game is just called Skate.
It’s a free-to-play live service title with microtransactions, though there will not be any…
