After recently expanding its Supercharger pilot program for non-Tesla EV owners, the Supercharger network became the ‘largest 150 kW+ public fast-charging network’ in Europe overnight. It’s quite impressive that Tesla did that basically by just flipping a switch.
Tesla was early in investing in charging infrastructure, which led to the Supercharger becoming the largest global fast-charging…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 23, 2022
May 24, 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…
SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell defends Elon Musk to employees after allegations of sexual misconduct
May 24, 2022
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email last week responding to a report of allegations of sexual assault against CEO Elon Musk, claiming she doesn’t believe the allegations to be true. The email, first reported by CNBC and reviewed by The Verge, also…
SpaceX’s Starlink is still scaling up its constellation of internet satellites, and the service is only intended for use at the specific location where the user is registered. But as we noted earlier this month, for an additional $25 per month, it will let users take their dish somewhere else every now and then with the service’s new “portability” feature.
For that package with…
Kipon has announced the third-generation Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 APS-C lens that it claims features a new lens coating that removes flare and purple fringing. Rated as one of the fastest lenses in the world, the 40mm f/0.85 Mark III is designed with art and portrait photographers…
Canon has been awarded a patent for new artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology that will automatically zoom in to better frame a photo before capture.
Canon’s new AI Zoom technology seeks to identify subjects within a photo’s frame and then either…
Dmytro Kozatsky, an Azov Regiment fighter and photographer, has shared the pictures he took during the last days of the siege of Mauripol before it was captured by the Russians.
Kozatsky’s powerful images are taken from inside the grim Mauripol steel plant where his regiment was the last of the Ukrainian military that was still holding out against the Russian army in the pulverized…
Clearview AI is facing a £7.5 million (about $9,444,250) fine after the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found the company has broken data protection laws.
The US-based Clearview AI collected more than 20 billion images of people’s faces…
Canon has announced two new APS-C crop-sensor RF-mount cameras, the R7 and the R10. The R7 is the spiritual successor to the 7D series while the R10 brings a Rebel-like camera to Canon’s mirrorless lineup.
Both cameras feature Canon’s RF-mount but use a…
Canon’s first APS-C mirrorless cameras are here, three and a half years after its first full-frame RF-mount option. After a brief time with what is effectively the Rebel replacement, there is a lot of camera here for $1,000.
Build Quality and Design
As with the Canon EOS R7 that was also announced today, the R10 is an original body design and it weighs less than one pound with a…
