In addition to a bottom field, the Google app is testing a Search bar that appears at the very top of your screen. It matches other first-party apps, but is a departure from what Google Search has looked like on mobile for the past several years.
This A/B test sees the pill-shaped search field appear above the Google logo/Doodle. In the process, Google removes the weather condition and…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 4, 2021
December 5, 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…
Tesla has started to push a new Full Self-Driving Beta software update (version 10.6) to its fleet with improved object detection.
It’s the latest step in the long road to improve the FSD package and deliver on a promise to customers that has been delayed several…
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According to a newly released survey from nonprofit technical organization IEEE, about one in five respondents say AI and machine learning (21%), cloud computing (20%), and 5G (17%) will be the most important technologies next year. The study examines…
Server-side updates are common for the Google Play Store, and currently yet another is headed to users. For some, the Google Play Store is adding a much more prominent way to check for updates.
Available under Play Store > Settings > About, this new option simply…
13 Camera Settings Every iPhone Photographer Should Know
December 4, 2021
If you do iPhone photography, common sense may say you pick up the iPhone, open the camera app and just start shooting. That’ll work, but there happen to be so many settings and features hidden within these phones that stump way too many people, even some of us pros…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: $700 electric bike with FIVE shock absorbers
December 4, 2021
I’m an electric bicycle guy through and through. You’ve probably seen me riding and testing any number of dozens of electric bicycles in the last few months – hundreds in the last year or two. So I’ve seen just about everything the e-bike industry has to offer, or at least I thought I had. That was until this strange-looking contraption rolled across my screen in my latest hunt through the…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, that developed and distributed spyware called Pegasus. It was used by some governments to access the iPhones of journalists and activists and steal their photos.
In July, it became known…
China is the world’s biggest polluter – and it’s also the world’s leader in clean energy growth. China’s installed offshore wind capacity has now reached 302.2 gigawatts (GW), according to Windpower Intelligence (WPI), the data and research division of Windpower…
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is updating the Cybertruck with a four-motor configuration that is going to enable independent power at each wheel and four-wheel steering with “crab” mode, like the Hummer EV.
As we previously reported, Tesla removed Cybertruck specs and prices from its website in October.
After being unchanged for two years since the unveiling of the prototype in 2019, the…
