Following Lens last week, Google Calculator is the next first-party application to be updated for tablets and other large screen Android devices.
Update 5/26: Google also added a Quick Settings tile with Calculator 8.2 that simply launches the app. It is using the themed icon as the illustration. (Thanks Kawshik.)
Original 5/24: Before this update, the tablet UI was just the landscape version…
Nikkei Asia reported this week that Apple and its suppliers are struggling with iPhone 14 production due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China. Now analyst Jeff Pu of Haitong International Securities has brought more detail to this story by saying that iPhone 14 Max production is…
Tesla updates car software to start applying regular brakes when regenerative is limited
May 26, 2022
Tesla has pushed a new software update in order for its vehicles to start applying regular brakes when regenerative braking is limited. It’s an optional feature.
Tesla used to offer drivers options in the strength of the regenerative braking, which is one of the coolest…
Kawasaki M8 Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) electric trains began to run on Connecticut’s Shore Line East this week.
New electric trains in Connecticut
Shore Line East provides daily service from New Haven to New London. It has connecting service to New York City through Metro-North’s New Haven Line, which has had M8 EMU trains for more than a decade.
The electric M8s are a substantial…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 25, 2022
May 26, 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…
Supposed leaked spec sheet suggests Sony will announce a 61MP a7R V with 8K/30p video and more
May 26, 2022
A photograph of Sony’s a7R IV full-frame mirrorless camera, the latest a7R model to be released.
Photo Rumors has published what appears to be a pretty plausible specifications list for an upcoming full-frame camera from Sony. According to the leaked details, the…
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NASA Invites Media to Discuss Space Station Science, Climate Research
One of the primary payloads aboard the cargo flight is the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation or EMIT.
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Thursday, June 2, to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations, and science experiments…
The latest change to Google Docs lets you select multiple passages of text and take bulk actions (delete, copy, paste, etc.) simultaneously to greatly speed up formatting.
This will make formatting and editing documents faster by eliminating the need to make repetitive…
Just a day after Samsung announced the program, the first beta program for the Wear OS–based Galaxy Watch 4 is already showing up in the Samsung Members app – but with a couple of caveats.
The first beta program for the Galaxy Watch 4 is set to deliver some…
Recently, Visible expanded the ability to convert your physical SIM card provided by the carrier to a sleeker and virtual eSIM. Since Visible now supports eSIM conversion on the Pixel 6, I figured I’d give it a go. It turns out the ride wasn’t as smooth as I’d hoped it would be.
What is an eSIM and what are the benefits?
Since the development of modern devices and the carriers that power…
