MobileNews

Google Play Pass is free for up to a year to Verizon customers w/ unlimited data plan

Play Pass is a subscription service by Google that grants Android users access to over 800 games and apps for a low monthly cost, but Verizon subscribers are about to get a bonus. Starting this week, the service is a free perk of your cellular service. Verizon announced this morning that it will be giving out Google Play Pass and Apple Arcade for free to all Unlimited customers for free. The…
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MobileNews

Google News Showcase is now available on desktop web after launching on mobile

Google’s $1 billion licensing program to support publishers and surface new card-based content is now coming to the desktop web. News Showcase will be available on the Google News website after previously being limited to Android and iOS.  The News Showcase panels will appear on the Top Stories homepage below the usual list of headlines. “News sources” that appear here are “suggested…
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NewsPhotography

Scoring explained: Why we think the Fujifilm GFX 100S’ peers are cameras half its price (NOT the Sony a1)

I’m, at best, a keen enthusiast photographer but the GFX 100S’ strengths are all in areas that benefit the kinds of photos I like to take (everyday scenes, landscape, portraiture), whereas the a1’s aren’t: its speed would be utterly wasted on me. The GFX 100S is one of the highest-end cameras we’ve ever reviewed, which has the effect of making it a difficult camera to…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

The new Torque 1 e-bike may be the most affordable torque sensor-based electric bike yet

The Torque 1 electric commuter bike from St Petersberg, Florida-based Ride Scoozy may just be one of the most affordable electric bicycles out there with a torque sensor. For those that don’t nerd out about e-bikes as much as the rest of us, a torque sensor is just a more elegant way of controlling power on an electric bike. E-bikes that lack throttles are powered by a Pedal Assist System…
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