Sigma Unveils 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro Lens for Mirrorless Cameras
September 30, 2020
This morning, Sigma officially unveiled its much-anticipated 105mm f/2.8 DG DN Macro lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. This is Sigma’s first Art-series Macro lens for a mirrorless system, and it’s been optically re-designed from the ground up to deliver…
Coralogix raises $25 million to parse software logs with AI
September 30, 2020
Coralogix, which analyzes software logs with AI, today announced $25 million in new funding and launched a real-time analytics solution that allows customers to pay according to data priority instead of volume. This allows them to get queries, alerts, and machine learning…
HP’s Reverb G2 Omnicept VR headset adds heart, eye, and face tracking
September 30, 2020
Back in May, HP announced the $600 Reverb G2 VR headset — a collaboration with Microsoft and Valve that appealed to both consumers and enterprises. Now it’s chasing progressive businesses with an upgraded Omnicept Edition of the hardware, adding multiple biometric sensors that will make the already capable Reverb G2 more useful for employee training and data analysis.
You can think of the…
President Donald Trump claimed support for electric cars during the presidential debate with former Vice-President Joe Biden and appeared to take credit for the federal EV tax credit implemented during the Obama administration.
The first presidential debate of the 2020…
Quick Charge Podcast: September 29, 2020
September 30, 2020
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…
Twitter’s voice tweets are rolling out to more iOS users, and transcriptions are on the way
September 30, 2020
Twitter has just expanded its voice tweets feature, which lets you record a snippet of audio to include with a tweet, to more users on iOS. But perhaps more significantly, Twitter is now saying it plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility, which could help address criticisms from the feature’s June 17th launch.
If you want to get an idea of how voice tweets work right…
VW ID.4 will have 2,200lb towing capacity, 2,700 for AWD model
September 30, 2020
VW’s online configurator for the ID.4 is out, and a new detail has emerged about the car’s towing capabilities. It looks like all ID.4 models will have some towing capability, with the RWD model sporting 2,200lb capacity and the AWD model 2,700lbs. All models will have…
DuckDuckGo slams Google’s Android search engine auction as ‘fundamentally flawed’ after losing to Bing
September 30, 2020
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has beaten out competitor DuckDuckGo and will now be offered as an option for Android users during setup in select European countries, according to the results of Google’s most recent default search engine auction. DuckDuckGo, previously…
Nissan turns Leaf electric car into cool-looking mobile power supply for disaster relief
September 30, 2020
Nissan modified a Leaf electric car to turn it into a cool-looking mobile power supply on wheels for disaster relief.
With the Leaf, Nissan has been an early adopter of vehicle-to-grid technology for electric vehicles.
The technology has great potential for grid services, but Nissan first implemented it as a way to provide backup power in case of natural disasters.
Now the Japanese automaker went…
