GE Renewable Energy yesterday announced the 3 megawatt (MW) Sierra, its newest onshore wind turbine platform that will only be sold in North America.
GE Sierra onshore wind turbine
The 3 MW Sierra is, according to GE, “built on the legacy of GE’s bestselling 2 MW platform, which recently surpassed 30 GW of installed base globally. The Sierra platform launched with two prototypes, one in…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 18, 2022
May 19, 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…
.While the spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a system data issue.
The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer…
Google effectively blocks Total Commander file manager from sideloading APK files on Android
May 19, 2022
The Google Play Store has apparently blocked the relatively popular file manager, Total Commander, from sideloading APK files by threat of removal from the app from the store.
Detailed on a forum post as well as in a Reddit comment, Google sent a notice to the developers of Total Commander, a file management app available both on Android and Windows, explaining that the app was in danger of being…
A newly discovered flaw in Huawei’s AppGallery store makes it possible for paid Android apps to be downloaded for free.
Given the ongoing sanctions against Huawei that prevent the phone maker from using Google’s services (among other things), the company’s own suite of…
Amidst I/O 2022, Google Cloud announced Immersive Stream for XR last week to use the cloud-based GPUs behind Stadia for interactive 3D and augmented reality demo experiences.
Google’s cloud division already offers “Immersive Stream for Games” so that other gaming…
Google announced its Pixel Buds Pro recently, but they’re still a few weeks out. If you’re in need of the Assistant integration, smart features, and active noise cancellation today, Sony LinkBuds S might be exactly what you need.
Building off of some of the ideas of the ambient sound-focused LinkBuds, which launched earlier this year, the Sony LinkBuds S have a more traditional form factor…
Google is now taking feedback for Android 13 Beta 2 a week after its launch at I/O 2022. At the same time, the Android 12 QPR3 Beta 3 survey is also available.
Android 12 QPR3 Beta 3 survey
Android 13 Beta 2 survey
Please only fill out this survey if your device is running…
Small Android phones are dead. As sad as it is to say, it’s extremely unlikely that a flagship Android phone will come out in the foreseeable future. Let’s go over why.
How did we get here?
Smartphones from both the Android and iOS camps have gotten significantly bigger…
Google Photos recently rolled out a pair of tweaks on Android and iOS that make it easier to delete media in albums, and there’s a new date/location indicator when browsing.
In the main feed, there’s a new overlay in the top-left corner as you browse. There’s “Today,” “Yesterday,” and eventually it becomes the complete date. Location appears in the line below, and several can…
