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 were kids. Why pay a stranger in a questionably shady truck when your mom can just pick up ice pops at Krogers?
But that…
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…
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 Galatea-Galene huge 1.7 gigawatt offshore wind farm will be sited off Halland, a county on the western coast of Sweden. It’s named…
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…
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 Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States for critical minerals using advanced airborne…
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…
How to export & download your game saves from Google Stadia
October 1, 2022
With Google Stadia now set to come to a close next year, many gamers are left wondering what will happen to their years of progress across Stadia’s library of games. Thankfully, your saves are perfectly safe and can be easily moved to a PC! Here’s how you can export and…
Smart Lock ‘Trusted places’ missing for some, including Pixel on Android 13 QPR1 [U: Fix]
October 1, 2022
The Android 13 QPR1 Beta has been relatively stable, but some Pixel owners have now noticed that the “Trust places” Smart Lock option has disappeared for them.
Update 9/30: A fix for this issue is starting to appear. After updating to version 22.39.12 of Google Play services, the Trusted places Smart Lock option returned on an impacted Pixel of ours. If the update is rolled out to your…
