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Geekbench removes four years of Samsung Galaxy benchmarks following GOS ‘throttling’ debacle [U]

March 15, 2022
Benchmarks are never fully indicative of how a device will actually perform in real life, but they can provide some useful points of comparison between closely matched devices. Geekbench, one of the best benchmarking apps available across platforms, has just announced that it will remove results from the past few years of Samsung Galaxy devices over a recent software debacle. Last week…
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Report: Lockdown in Chinese city won’t have a big impact on iPhone production

March 15, 2022
After a rise in COVID-19 cases in Shenzhen, considered China’s Silicon Valley, the city is currently in lockdown. Due to that, Foxconn had suspended its operations in Shenzhen until further notice, but according to a report, it won’t impact iPhone production much. J.P. Morgan analysts (via Reuters) say that Foxconn would deploy backup plants to reduce disruption. That said, it seems it…
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You.com launches an AI-powered writing tool powered by OpenAI

March 15, 2022
Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. Just a few months ago, Bryan McCann and Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, launched You.com, a search engine that leverages AI to understand search queries, rank the results, and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages). The platform summarizes information from across the…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: March 14, 2022

March 15, 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…
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Tesla increases prices throughout whole lineup, its cheapest electric car now starts at $47,000

March 15, 2022
Tesla has implemented big price increases throughout its entire vehicle lineup in an overnight update to its online configurator. Its cheapest electric car, Model 3, now starts at $47,000. We suspected it was coming after Elon Musk announced on Twitter that both Tesla and SpaceX were seeing significant inflation, but big prices increases on Tesla vehicles are now in place. Tesla vehicles have…
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