Apple announced iPadOS 15 earlier today at the WWDC 2021 opening keynote with multiple new features, including widgets on the home screen, enhanced multitasking, App Library, and more. However, one small but interesting detail is that iPhone apps can now run in landscape mode on the iPad with iPadOS 15.
Previously on the iPad, if you had installed an iPhone app that did not fully support the…
iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset
June 8, 2021
With iOS 15, your iPhone is still traceable through the Find My network even when the device is powered off. It seems that with iOS 15, the phone is not really fully ‘powered off’, it stays in a low-power state and acts like an AirTag, allowing any nearby iOS device to…
While iOS 15 was announced earlier today at WWDC 2021 with features like SharePlay in FaceTime, Focus mode, a new look for notifications, and enhancements to multiple native system apps, Apple also made some improvements for a specific group of users. As mentioned on…
On June 23, full support for Stadia is coming to the Chromecast with Google TV, along with a handful of other Android TV devices.
Last year, with the launch of the Chromecast with Google TV, Google promised that their game streaming platform, Stadia, would be available on the device within the first half of 2021. Today, both Stadia and Nest have shared that Stadia will arrive on Google TV just…
Google Assistant bringing Duplex restaurant bookings to smart displays, expanding Guest Mode
June 8, 2021
After launching to users in 2018 and expanding to online orders earlier this year, Google Duplex on Assistant is making its debut on Nest smart displays in the near future as another feature also expands to more users.
Google announced today that, “soon,” Nest smart…
Google TV homescreen adding Sling TV integration on Chromecast in first expansion past YouTube TV
June 8, 2021
For live TV streaming customers, one of the best parts of Google TV is its homescreen guide. However, that “Live” tab has, to date, only worked with YouTube TV. Now, Google TV is adding homescreen integration for Sling TV.
Rolling out starting this week*, Chromecast…
While the first beta of Google’s next mobile operating system is now available, Android 11 remains the stable release for the next few months. Google is rolling out the June security patch with a Feature Drop to the Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a (5G), and Pixel 5 today.
There are 14 issues resolved in the June security patch dated 2021-06-01 and 27 for 2021-06-05.
Apple announced a whole slew of features for FaceTime today, but there was one major announcement for Android users: You’ll soon be able to join FaceTime calls via your phone’s web browser.
Famously, Steve Jobs said in 2010 when FaceTime was announced that it would be…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches transformer products for offshore floating wind farms.
Turbine installation is complete at Denmark’s largest wind farm, the offshore Kriegers Flak.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that…
Tesla loses head of energy operations
June 8, 2021
Tesla’s head of energy operations has left the company amid an important growth phase for the ‘Tesla Energy’ division.
RJ Johnson
RJ Johnson was a US Army officer who graduated from West Point in civil engineering.
When leaving the service in 2007, he joined NextEra, a large electric utility company operating throughout the US and Canada.
He spent over a decade at the company, where he…
