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Quick Charge Podcast: May 26, 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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Facebook announces more tools coming to iOS app to combat misinformation

Facebook announced it’s launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker, as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform. Before a user likes a page that repeatedly shared misinformation, Facebook will give a pop-up to warn the user and include what fact-checkers said about some…
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This new dual motor carbon fiber electric scooter is 3D-printed to the exact size of the rider

Following the wildly successful Superstrata 3D-printed carbon fiber electric bicycle last summer, the team behind the Arevo 3D-printers that enabled such tech has a new offering: the Scotsman electric scooter. The Scotsman is the world’s first custom 3D-printed carbon fiber electric scooter. It uses unibody construction, meaning literally everything is printed in one go out of carbon fiber…
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Asus ROG Phone 5 arrives in the United States for $999

If gaming is the most important thing you do on your smartphone, Asus has the option for you. Following its reveal earlier this year, the Asus ROG Phone 5 has just arrived in the United States with a hefty price tag in tow. Asus ROG Phone 5 delivers one heck of a package…
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Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut emissions in historic first

A court in the Netherlands today ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. Previous to the ruling, Shell’s emissions reduction target was 20% by 2030. It’s the first time activists have taken a major energy company to court to get it to overhaul its climate strategy, and they were successful. Shell’s current climate target states that it aims…
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