The very latest Google Doodle celebrates the Lunar New Year 2022 and start of the Year of the Tiger with an animated homepage splash image.
Celebrated across vast swathes of East Asia, the Lunar New Year is based upon moon cycles and is based upon the lunisolar calendar. The Gregorian calendar is used more dominantly across the West, and so New Year celebrations are separated as a result. The…
TWRP support comes to OnePlus 8/8 Pro, plus more budget phones
February 1, 2022
Popular custom recovery TeamWin Recovery Project, better known as TWRP, has now added builds that support the OnePlus 8, 8 Pro, and a small pool of budget Android devices.
If you are dead set on slapping a custom ROM on your Android device, you might look to TWRP to get…
Chromebooks had a rough end to 2021 especially for Lenovo and HP, despite yearly growth
February 1, 2022
Google’s Chrome OS made a huge impact early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, with the quick shift to working and educating at home necessitating more machines, and often super affordable ones. However, the following year has seen those numbers drop quickly. In Q4 2021…
With more armies testing e-bikes than ever before, are electric bikes set to become the new cavalry?
February 1, 2022
The idea of army vehicles usually conjures up images of battle tanks and Black Hawks, but there’s a long history of two-wheelers making the draft as well. But while bicycles and old motorcycles were the bikes of choice for decades, electrification is changing the face of two-wheeled army transports around the world.
Electric motorcycles have already been growing in popularity for civilian use…
Tesla is hit by ‘safety recall’ of all Full Self-Driving Beta cars over ‘rolling stop’ feature, will have to roll it back
February 1, 2022
Tesla has been hit by a safety recall from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on all vehicles in its Full Self-Driving Beta over a feature called “rolling stop” that allows vehicles to drive past stop signs.
The automaker is going to have to…
Back in September, Google Weather received a (late) Material Theme redesign, but a peculiar bug made it so that launching from At a Glance loaded the old UI. This has mercifully been fixed today, though other bugs still persist.
While all other Google apps received a…
Google Messages starts rolling out iMessage reactions, but emoji translations are not quite 1:1
February 1, 2022
As we spotted in November and following the latest push for RCS support on iPhone earlier this month, Google Messages is starting to roll out iMessage reactions in beta for Android users.
Once rolled out to your Android phone, Google Messages will convert iMessage reactions (officially referred to as “Tapbacks“) sent by iPhone users in response to SMS/MMS. Instead of them appearing as an…
This app makes tracking rooftop solar installation and performance a cinch for homeowners
February 1, 2022
Homeowners who buy rooftop solar can track both the installation process and PV panel performance once their system is online with a free app from three-year-old software technology startup, Bodhi. The app makes buying into rooftop solar much more…
Tesla confirmed an interesting data point: It had 400,000 Storm Watch activations on Powerwall battery packs in 2021. The feature helps homeowners avoid power outages in extreme weather.
Back in 2018, Tesla started integrating features for Powerwall and solar customers to…
Quick Charge Podcast: January 31, 2022
February 1, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
