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Twitch announced it has launched the closed beta of its latest product: Twitch Charity. Through this new tool, creators can more easily run a charity fundraiser through Twitch’s platform. According to Twitch…
Tesla confirmed today that Gigafactory Berlin has been able to ramp up production to 2,000 electric cars a week for the first time.
If this new production rate is maintainable, it is a giant achievement for the automaker.
Every automaker in the world is currently…
Remember the good ol’ days of hearing the ice cream truck’s jingle coming down the street and running outside with a fistful of quarters to grab your favorite tasty treat?
Yea, me neither, as I’m in my early 30’s and that stuff was mostly phased out by the time we…
A year after introducing the “teacup version,” Google Japan is back with a new physical form factor for Android’s default keyboard app: the Gboard bar.
This “Gboard bar” arranges keys in a straight line “so you don’t have to look around.” This is said to be “extremely simple” and comes in at 1,650 mm long or just under 65-inches. The upside is that it takes up very little…
Watch Tesla's AI Day 2022 event at 9:15PM ET
October 1, 2022
Tesla is holding another AI Day, and it’ll be particularly easy to tune in. The automaker is streaming its 2022 event tonight at 9:15PM Eastern on YouTube (below) as well as its website. Elon Musk has warned the presentation will be “highly technical” and…
Stockholm-headquartered renewable energy developer OX2 has signed letters of intent with Swedish edible seaweed companies Nordic SeaFarm and KOBB to explore the possibility of seaweed farming at one of OX2’s offshore wind farms.
Seaweed and offshore wind
OX2’s…
BIDIRECTIONAL Act introduced in US Senate to promote electric school buses feeding grid
October 1, 2022
A new bill introduced Friday by US Senator Angus King of Maine could unlock the true potential of electric school buses and provide stability to communities in need. The BIDIRECTIONAL Act would “create a program dedicated to deploying electric school buses with bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) flow capability.”
Zero-emission electric school buses are being deployed nationwide as state…
Tesla unveils its humanoid robot for ‘less than $20,000’
October 1, 2022
Tesla has unveiled its Optimus humanoid robot at its AI Day 2022 today and Elon Musk believes Tesla can bring it to market for “less than $20,000”.
As expected, the event started with Tesla unveiling a working prototype of its humanoid robot – a project first…
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NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Change
These new observations can be used to identify the presence of a wide variety of minerals as well as mineral weathering or alteration.
NASA and the U.S. Geological…
With Android 13, Google began work on a predictive back gesture to “let users preview the destination or other result of a back gesture before fully completing it,” and you can now preview it with the Phone app on Pixel.
Original 9/28: You first need to enable Developer options (Settings > About phone > tap “Build number” — located at the bottom — seven times). Once done, use…
