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Square Enix announced Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate during a stream today celebrating the franchise’s 35th anniversary. It does not have a release date, although Square Enix did note that it is aiming for simultaneous worldwide release. We also do not know which platforms it is heading for.
This will be the first…
Volvo Cars has announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden has become the company’s first climate neutral car manufacturing plant. The automaker is calling this achievement a significant step toward its goal of making its global manufacturing network climate neutral by…
Tesla announced today that they have just surpassed 200,000 Powerwalls installed globally.
It means that Tesla installed as many Powerwalls over the last year as it did for the first five years of the home battery pack’s existence.
Tesla introduced Powerwall 2 in 2016…
Taycan Cross Turismo Turbo first drive: The best $2,600 upgrade Porsche has ever offered
May 27, 2021
Porsche hooked us up with a gorgeous blue Taycan Cross Turismo ‘Turbo’ for the better part of 24 hours last week so we could get a feel of the lust-worthy variant of the popular Taycan EV. For a short time, I was the envy of the suburbs…
The Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo is the slightly “station-wagoned-out” version of the popular Taycan EV that we reviewed all the way back in January…
Quick Charge Podcast: May 26, 2021
May 27, 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…
You’ll be able to join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday, the company announced, making the company’s social audio rooms much more widely accessible. Previously, you could only join Spaces from Twitter’s iOS and…
When Apple introduced iOS 14 last year, it unleashed a whole new rush of amazing widgets, both from third-party developers and Apple itself. Apple’s own apps and now its own widgets are supposed to serve as examples for other developers to be inspired by. But many of Apple’s stock apps don’t actually have widgets yet. Meanwhile, widgets are still static and can’t be made interactive.
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…
Pokémon HOME for iOS teases new Catch Calendar feature with Bulbasaur and Squirtle as gifts
May 27, 2021
Pokémon HOME launched in 2020 for iOS and Android users as a way to store pocket monsters from the Nintendo DS games to your phone and then to the Nintendo Switch. Today, The Pokémon Company teased a major update coming this June for iOS users.
According to a blog post…
Another exploit found in WebKit hasn’t yet been fixed in the latest iOS and macOS versions
May 27, 2021
Apple released iOS 14.5.1 and other software updates in late April that brought important security fixes to WebKit, which is the engine behind Safari and other web browsers on iOS. However, security researchers point out that there is still an exploit in WebKit that is active even in the latest versions of iOS and macOS.
As pointed out by security firm Theori (via ArsTechnica), the vulnerability…
