A group of airports in Italy and France are banding together to create electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) veliport infrastructure to speed the deployment of quicker, carbon-free air taxi transportation between their respective city centers and passenger terminals.
Operators of airports in Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Nice announced the creation of the jointly owned Urban Blue company.
Ola’s electric scooters have proven popular ever since their debut earlier this year. Now we’re getting our first detailed look inside the company’s massive electric scooter factory, which employs an entirely female workforce.
Ola’s S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters…
LumaFusion video editor to come Android, Chrome OS in ‘coming months’ as development begins
October 27, 2021
While Android has its fair share of solid video editing apps, Chrome OS has to make do with some fairly basic and substandard options. That is set to change as the team behind the excellent iOS and iPad-only LumaFusion has confirmed that development has started on dedicated…
Google Tensor shows stunning results in Pixel 6 Pro speed test, just seconds short of iPhone 13 Pro [Video]
October 27, 2021
Tensor is the first mobile chip Google has ever designed for its Pixel smartphones, and as we explained in our review earlier this week, the performance feels indistinguishable from the best Snapdragon flagships. However, it also puts up an impressive comparison with Apple’s chips in the iPhone 13 Pro Max, with a Pixel 6 speed test being a very close call.
YouTube channel PhoneBuff this week…
Rivian had a ‘small’ battery fire at its electric pickup truck factory in Normal, Illionois, according to the local fire department.
After a few delays, Rivian finally started production of its R1T electric pickup truck last month.
It is now trying to ramp up…
Uber drivers are going to have access to 50,000 Tesla vehicles for rent through Hertz
October 27, 2021
Uber announced a deal with Hertz for its drivers to have access to 50,000 Tesla vehicles through the rental company.
Earlier this week, we reported on Hertz announcing that it ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla. Now we learn that there’s more to the deal.
Hertz…
Samsung ends Android 12 beta on Galaxy S21, shows off One UI 4’s colors, features in new video
October 27, 2021
Android 12 is perhaps the biggest update to the platform in years, but most of its best designs and features are primarily on Pixel. Samsung has been working on its One UI 4 update based on Android 12, and in a new video the company shows how it’s adopting some of Google’s features from Pixel.
Two new videos posted by Samsung offer a tour through the Android 12-based One UI 4.0 update, the…
The brand formerly known as Olympus is now 'OM System' - and it has a new Micro Four Thirds camera on the way
October 27, 2021
OM Digital Solutions, the digital imaging company that acquired the former Olympus imaging division, has announced that going forward, its ‘interchangeable lens cameras and lenses, compact digital cameras, audio products, binoculars, and other services’ will be sold…
The Detroit Free Press just may have been looking to stir the pot a bit over the weekend with its article on a study’s contrarian finding that driving an electric vehicle (EV) costs more than a standard gas-burning car. What the paper apparently got was a Wagnerian…
With the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro officially launching tomorrow, Google today detailed some additional places where its custom Tensor SoC is being used to improve and power the camera.
Google already detailed some of these advancements at the Pixel Launch Event, but started by reiterating how Live HDR+ Video is made possible by Tensor’s Image Signal Processor (ISP) directly featuring an accelerator…