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Formula E racing champ Antonio Felix da Costa talks 200 km/h racing and electric scooters

January 24, 2021
Portugual-born 29-year-old Antonio Felix da Costa is currently the reigning champion of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Antonio has been with the open-wheeled electric racing league since its inaugural season in 2014. While we wait in anticipation of the 2020-21 season beginning next month, and on the heels of Antonio and electric scooter-manufacturer NIU announcing a new partnership…
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Google Photos for Android gets tablet-optimized interface

January 24, 2021
Back in June, Google thoroughly redesigned Photos with simpler navigation and a long-awaited map view. The revamp was most apparent on phones, but the website also saw some tweaks. Google Photos has now been optimized for Android tablets with an interface that takes better…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 23, 2021

January 24, 2021
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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Latest WhatsApp update drops support for Google Camera’s Social Share shortcut

January 24, 2021
With the Pixel 4 in October of 2019, Google Camera added a convenient feature that lets you quickly share your last photo or video to another app. An update to WhatsApp for Android this week prevents the Facebook-owned service from working with Social Share in Google Camera. After taking a picture in Google Camera, it quickly appears as a preview in the bottom-right corner.  Swiping up on that…
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How to Colorize Photos in Photoshop with Just a Few Clicks Using AI

January 23, 2021
Adobe recently gave Photoshop the ability to instantly colorize photos using Adobe Sensei AI technology. Here’s a new 1.5-minute video tutorial by Adobe showing how you can now breathe color into a black-and-white photo with just a few clicks. After loading up your photo, go to Filter->Neural Fliters to open up the new Neural Filters panel. In the beta filters section (the Erlenmeyer flask…
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In Praise of Inexpensive Lenses

January 23, 2021
When I was a semi-professional 4×5 landscape photographer I often spent a half-hour shooting a single sheet of film and several hours enlarging it to the best of my ability. I sought the sharpest possible result. And now in the digital age, I still pursue sharp…
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Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week: $4,000 electric pickup truck

January 23, 2021
Alibaba is one of the best places around to find the coolest and sometimes weirdest electric vehicles in the world. As part of a new series known as Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week, we’re taking a look at some of our favorites. This week’s feature is a small-yet-mighty electric pickup truck designed for utility and off-road usage, though it may even be street legal as an…
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