Reading, Pennsylvania-headquartered Penske Truck Leasing has ordered 750 electric Ford E-Transit cargo vans and is taking delivery of the first of those EVs in the next several weeks. This follows Penske’s successful pilot of the EVs in late 2022.
Penske’s first Ford E-Transit EVs will be available in Southern California, and other locations around the United States will be phased in later…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 20, 2022
April 21, 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.
Check the battery before buying a used EV & monitor your battery…
There was one notable omission when the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 lineup launched last year: Google Assistant. As for when it would arrive, Google and Samsung have avoided giving firm dates, but there was reason to hope the digital assistant might arrive sooner than expected.
Wiki Loves Monuments, which calls itself the world’s largest photo competition, has announced the winners of its 2021 contest that showcases stunning cultural heritage locations from across the globe.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Competition
This twelfth iteration of Wiki Loves Monuments saw 172,000 entries from 4,914 applicants, 3,198 of which were new to the contest. An international…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Video of Solar Eclipse on Mars
The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars…
Gupshup’s conversational AI buying spree continues
April 21, 2022
Just weeks after acquiring conversational AI provider Active.ai, Gupshup, the San Francisco-based messaging service, is adding ecommerce-focused AskSid to its portfolio. The move further bolsters two other acquisitions from the conversational AI platform’s growing list of…
There haven’t been many major releases on Google Stadia so far this year, but today the platform is announcing a pretty big new addition. Coming soon, last year’s entry in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, Security Breach, will be available on Google Stadia.
While there’s no specific release date available just yet, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, will be coming to Stadia…
For the past several years, Google has been making a big push to get developers to optimize their apps for large screens, including Chrome OS. The latest example sees Evernote update its Android app for Chromebooks.
Evernote says the Android app is now “tailored for…
Last year, Google started prominently showing air quality (AQI) data to Nest Hub and other Smart Display users. You can now also search for air quality on Google to get detailed information.
Searching “air quality” in the United States shows an identically named card.
Google Messages bug leaves camera on in background, draining battery — Here’s how to fix
April 21, 2022
A new bug in Google Messages leaves your camera on in the background, quickly draining your battery and heating up your device.
Within the Google Messages app, there’s an easy way to quickly snap a picture and immediately attach it to a message and send it to a friend. In the view for attaching images from your gallery, there’s also a live feed from your camera to either take an immediate…
