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Huawei Announces the Folding Mate X2, Featuring a Leica Quad-Camera

February 22, 2021
Huawei continues to push ahead along with Samsung in the folding devices space with the announcement of the Mate X2. With massive screen real-estate and a camera array branded with Leica, the phone appears to be on the cutting edge, if it wasn’t for one major, glaring issue. The phone’s raw specifications look very impressive. It features an 8-inch wide inner screen with a resolution of…
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Google Doodle honors Zitkala-Sa, American Indian composer and suffragist

February 22, 2021
Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle celebrating the 145th birthday of Zitkala-Sa, a Native American musician, composer, and suffragist. Zitkala-Sa — whose name means “Red Bird” in Lakota/Lakȟótiyapi — was born on February 22, 1876, on the Yankton Indian Reserve in South Dakota. At age eight, she was recruited by Quaker missionaries to attend a local school that…
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Tesla’s new world’s-largest battery is showing progress in drone flyover

February 22, 2021
A new drone flyover shows that Tesla is making progress toward completion at its Moss Landing Megapack project that should become the world’s largest battery system. We first learned of the project at PG&E’s Moss Landing substation when they submitted it to CPUC and the company was in talks with Tesla in 2017. It involves four separate energy storage projects, and two of them should…
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AI isn’t yet ready to pass for human on video calls

February 22, 2021
Leading up to Superbowl Sunday, Amazon flooded social media with coquettish ads teasing “Alexa’s new body.” Its gameday commercial depicts one woman’s fantasy of the AI voice assistant embodied by actor Michael B. Jordan, who seductively caters to her every whim —…
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Montague launches M-E1 full-size electric commuter bike that folds in half

February 22, 2021
Folding e-bikes certainly offer unique advantages, but they also comprise a series of compromises thanks to their small frames and wheels. Full-size folding bicycle manufacturer Montague is turning that idea on its head though, launching the M-E1 full-size folding electric bicycle designed for city riders. While full-size folding e-bikes aren’t entirely new, most of the sporadic examples…
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