The days of Spot being leveraged as a weapons platform and training alongside special forces operators are already coming to an end; Atlas as a back-flipping soldier of fortune will never come to pass. Their maker, Boston Dynamics, along with five other industry leaders announced on Thursday that they will not pursue, or allow, the weaponization of their robots, according to a non-binding, open…
Elon Musk announced that Tesla is starting Tesla Semi production and that Pepsi is going to get the first electric trucks starting December 1.
Tesla Semi, an all-electric class 8 truck, was unveiled back in 2017. At the time, it was supposed to come as soon as 2019. The…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 6, 2022
October 7, 2022
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…
Infinix Zero Ultra, Zero 20 go official
October 7, 2022
The first 200MP camera phone from Infinix is now a reality – the Zero Ultra brings the 1/1.22” Samsung HP1 sensor seen in the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra and Xiaomi 12T Pro alongside a few other impressive specs. You also get blazing fast 180W Thunder Charge which should do a full 0-100% charge in 12 minutes and MediaTek’s Dimensity 920 chipset. Inifinix also formally introduced its Note 20 with…
Back in early September, Google released the first beta build for the upcoming Android 13 Quarterly Platform Release 1, aka QPR1. And today, the company is following it up with the second beta. There should be a third one in November, followed by the stable release in…
Motorola Maui's specs and image surface
October 7, 2022
Motorola will launch the new Moto E32 in India on October 7 with the Helio G37 SoC at the helm, but the company will release at least one more Helio G37-powered smartphone by the end of this year, which is codenamed Maui and has appeared in a leaked render.
The Motorola Maui…
Oppo A17 and A77s launched in India
October 7, 2022
The Oppo A17 unveiled last month debuted today in India. It comes in a single 4GB/64GB configuration with a price tag of INR12,499 ($152/€154) and two color options – Midnight Black and Sunlight Orange. It’s already available for purchase through Oppo’s official Indian website and other online and offline retail channels.
The Oppo A77s was announced yesterday and comes in a…
Oppo Reno9 series specs leak alongside box image
October 7, 2022
Last week brought news for the upcoming Oppo Reno9 series and the phones’ 4,500mAh batteries and Universal Fast Charging (UFCS) standard. We get even more details about the upcoming phones from two Chinese tipsters.
Noted tipster shared a brief spec list for the Reno9…
Samsung is pressing on with its public beta test for the next version of its Android skin. One UI 5 Beta 4 is now rolling out as an over-the-air update to members of the Galaxy S22 family in the US who are enrolled into the beta program.
This is labeled as build ZVJ2…
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JPL Developing More Tools to Help Search for Life in Deep Space
A team at the Lab has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life.
Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons…
