After losing one of its founders, Carl Pei, OnePlus is about to lose another major member of its team. Now, Kyle Kiang, the Chief Marketing Officer at OnePlus, is set to leave the company next week.
Input reports that the current Chief Marketing Officer for OnePlus, Kyle Kiang, will be leaving the company on April 2. The departure comes not even two weeks after the launch of the company’s…
Over the past week, Google Discover has made two tweaks to the feed’s design. The first sees Posts on Google get a more prominent Discover layout, while sports carousels have been removed to improve usability.
Brands, organizations, and figures can use Posts on Google…
The rollout of Android 11 has been fairly speedy thanks to quick rollouts from Samsung and others, but many OEMs are still a ways behind. This week, Asus is finally starting its Android 11 rollout with the ZenFone 7 and 7 Pro.
Starting in Taiwan, the Asus ZenFone 7 and 7…
Underage teen gets in Tesla’s back seat and claims it was self-driving after being pulled over by police
March 27, 2021
An underage teen who was driving a Tesla without a driver’s license or the owner’s permission got creative when the car was stopped by the police: She decided to jump in the back seat and claim the Tesla was self-driving.
The incident happened near Daytona Beach, Florida, where a Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a Tesla Model Y driving on the wrong side of the road.
After the…
US Department of Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm announced earlier this month that she will revive the agency’s Loan Programs Office (LPO), which funded Tesla. It has $43 billion in lending authority for large-scale energy infrastructure projects and advanced…
Google decided that the Chromecast needed its own unique flavor of Android TV to properly compete with the best streaming sticks on the market, which means quite a big shift in how you use the device. We — like many of you out there reading — have been using Chromecast…
Last year, Google introduced the ability to customize how sensitive your Smart Displays and speakers are to the hotword. Assistant is now using federated learning on Android to prevent “Hey Google” misactivations and misses.
For a handful of users, opening Google Assistant settings today reveals a new “Help improve Assistant” option to “save audio so speech technologies can learn over…
Elon Musk deletes tweet alluding to Tesla becoming world’s biggest company ‘in just a few months’
March 27, 2021
Elon Musk has deleted a tweet in which he alluded to Tesla potentially becoming the world’s biggest company “in just a few months.”
The SEC might be watching…
Musk’s use of Twitter has been the subject of scrutiny from financial authorities for a while now.
Most…
US says it will cut the cost of solar by 60% in a decade
March 27, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced yesterday that it intends to “cut the cost of solar energy by 60% within the next 10 years, in addition to nearly $128 million in funding to lower costs, improve performance, and speed the deployment of solar energy…
Chinese EV manufacturer NIO announced it will halt production at its JAC-NIO facility for five working days. The facility in Hefei, the capital of the Anhui Province, will suspend vehicle production beginning Monday, March 29. NIO has now become the next victim of a continuing global semiconductor shortage.
Despite the global pandemic, ($NIO) was on a roll in 2020. Earlier this month, the…
