In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Montana gets its largest wind farm as the state embraces renewables and moves away from coal.
EV charging giant EVBox doubles its installed electric charge ports globally in just one year to 200,000.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price…
VW announced that it is making a new batch of ID.4 1st Edition electric SUVs for the US market after selling out the first batch.
VW ID.4 Electric SUV
The ID.4 is the first globally available new electric vehicle built by VW on their new MEB platform.
It is equipped with…
Tesla Gigafactory Texas hits hyperspeed with giant building coming up, new job postings
January 6, 2021
Tesla Gigafactory Texas, which is a big part of Tesla’s growth story in 2021, is hitting hyperspeed with a giant building coming up and new job postings.
Tesla Gigafactory Texas
In mid-2020, Tesla announced a deal to build a brand new factory in Austin, Texas, where they…
Google Docs adds Smart Compose, autocorrect to comments
January 6, 2021
Since Smart Compose launched in Gmail at I/O 2018, the machine learning feature has expanded to more users and other products. In Google Docs, the helpful tool, along with autocorrect, is now available when commenting.
After the email app, Smart Compose in late 2019 came to Google Docs. Like in Gmail, it’s useful for writing long form and takes care of automatically entering repetitive phrases…
Israel, Greece sign $1.7 billion deal for Air Force training
January 6, 2021
JERUSALEM — As part of a $1.68 billion deal between Israel and Greece — the largest-ever defense agreement between the two countries — the Hellenic Air Force will acquire 10 M-346 aircraft and Israel’s Elbit Systems will establish a flight school and maintain…
OmniVision reveals new 32MP OV32B selfie image sensor with 0.7 micron pixels, 1080p180 video capture and more
January 6, 2021
OmniVision Technologies has revealed the details of the OV32B, a new 32MP 1/3” image sensor for front-facing cameras in smartphones.
The OV32B is built on OmniVision’s PureCel Plus stacked die technology and its pixels measure 0.7 microns across. The sensor integrates a…
Shooting Portraits with a Giant IMAX Lens on a Canon EOS R
January 5, 2021
In an endeavor that seems to be driven only by curiosity, Photographer Jay P. Morgan modded an old IMAX lens to allow it to work with his Canon EOS R. But just getting the lens to work wasn’t enough, as Morgan decided to take the lens way out of its element: street portraiture.
The giant lens was made by Iwerks Entertainment, a company founded in 1985. While it is now known as SimEx-Iwerks…
Dell has announced the UltraSharp Curved 4K WUHD monitor that comes loaded with a plethora of connection options and promises wide color coverage and excellent color performance. Dell also says that this is the world’s first 40-inch ultrawide curved monitor.
The actual…
Photography has been with me for as long as I can remember. In my childhood, my father had an old Zorki camera, the Russian Leica II clone, and he had a habit of developing films from our trips in the darkroom. That place with unfamiliar smells and substances had a unique…
There are reports that multiple Sony E-Mount cameras are going to come to market this year, with at least two recently registered in Japan. That said, a recent factory fire may be delaying their launch.
In early December, PetaPixel reported that a massive fire completely destroyed the AKM parts factory in Japan. AKM is known mostly for producing parts critical to the manufacture of A/V products…
