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Tesla starts construction on giant new Santa Monica Supercharger, but where’s the 1950s diner?

January 21, 2022
Tesla has started construction on a new, much-needed giant Supercharger station in Santa Monica. The station was also supposed to include the automaker’s 1950s restaurant, but now it’s not clear if the diner is still in the plans. In 2018, Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to open an “old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 20, 2022

January 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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Ricoh to Stop Mass Producing Cameras, Sell Direct to Consumer Only

January 21, 2022
Ricoh’s President and CEO Noboru Akahane has announced that the Pentax and GR camera brands will undergo a dramatic restructuring that will see mass production end. It will also end distributor relationships and go direct-to-consumer. Akahane says that Ricoh Imaging will be “reborn” starting on April 1, 2022 and that it will build a new business structure for its camera brands that…
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Some Nest and Google Wifi routers have been going offline at random for months

January 21, 2022
Google’s Nest Wifi and Google Wifi routers make mesh setups easy and, for the most part, pretty reliable while being relatively cheap. However, over the past few months, some Nest Wifi and Google Wifi owners are reporting that their networks have been going offline at random for months, and it seems Google has no concrete fix. First reported all the way back in September, one Nest Wifi owner…
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Google finds what Material Design app transition users like the most on Android

January 21, 2022
An interesting – albeit specific – user experience (UX) study from Google’s Material Design team today goes into what transition animation people prefer the most in Android apps. Researchers on the Material team set out to “learn which transition best suited a grid of cards.” The context was specific to the fairly common interaction of using a food ordering app, but it applies to any…
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