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Tesla Giga Shanghai officially restarts production with employees sleeping at the factory, expects slow ramp

April 19, 2022
Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai has now officially restarted production with reportedly 8,000 employees, who will be living and sleeping at the factory in a closed-loop system as there are still a lot of restrictions. A slow production ramp is to be expected. Shanghai has seen a rise in COVID-19 infections over the last month, and in an attempt to curb the growth, the authorities implemented some…
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Elon Musk claims Tesla owners have ‘super low usage’ of included mobile charger, but stats show otherwise

April 19, 2022
Tesla recently announced that it won’t be including its mobile charging connector with every new car, which it had been doing for years. Elon Musk claimed that the reason behind the controversial move was that Tesla was seeing ‘super low usage’ from owners based on internal statistics. However, convincing third-party data shows the exact opposite. When reporting on the disappointing move…
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Delta confirms ‘exploratory’ Starlink tests

April 19, 2022
Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the airline has tested out SpaceX’s Starlink technology, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The report calls the tests “exploratory” and says there weren’t any further details, but it does seem like one of the major US…
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Nitecore’s Sony Camera Battery Charges via an Integrated USB-C Port

April 19, 2022
Nitecore, a Chinese third-party battery manufacturer and maker of “smart” battery solutions for digital cameras, has announced a replacement rechargeable battery for Sony cameras that has a built-in USB-C port for charging, eliminating the need for a separate wall charger. There is no shortage of third-party batteries available for photographers and videographers on the market, and…
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The Solarcan Puck is a Single-Day Time Exposure Pinhole Camera

April 19, 2022
The Solarcan Puck is a reusable time exposure pinhole camera that is designed to capture the path of the Sun as it moves across the sky over the course of a day. Solarcan’s original product, the Solarcan Classic, is an experimental camera that was successfully backed on Kickstarter in 2017. That product was designed to produce extremely long time exposures that captured the Sun’s…
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