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YouTube Premium perk on Android, iOS adds persistent ‘Listening controls’ for all videos

December 2, 2021
Back in May, YouTube started testing “Listening controls” that looked to bring a dedicated music player to the main app for Premium subscribers. This UI is now widely rolled out for all videos. Listening controls replace everything underneath the video window with a sparse sheet. Play/pause, next/previous, and 10-second rewind/forward are the main buttons. There’s also the ability to like…
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Ex-Tesla VP turned Apple Car engineer poached by electric plane startup in latest staff loss

December 2, 2021
Apple has lost a senior member of its autonomous electric car team to a startup focused on electric aviation. Michael Schwekutsch, who left Tesla to join Apple as senior director of engineering for Special Projects Group in 2019, has left the company to work for Archer. This is just the latest in a revolving door situation surrounding Apple’s years-long effort to develop an electric vehicle with…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 1, 2021

December 2, 2021
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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Tesla is again found guilty of throttling charging speed, asked to pay $14,000 to owners in retrial

December 2, 2021
Tesla was again found guilty of throttling its Superchargering speed on early Model S vehicles. In Norway, the company is asked to pay ~$14,000 to affected owners in a retrial of the process, which Tesla is going to appeal. The Problem Back in 2019, Electrek reported on several reports from Tesla owners about seeing significant drops in range from 12 to 30 miles following a software…
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