Daimler and Portland General Electric (PGE) have unveiled today a new ‘first of its kind’ electric truck charging station in Portland, Oregon.
Semi electric trucks are now coming to the roads in bigger numbers and the industry is trying to figure out the charging infrastructure to support them.
Today, Daimler and Portland General Electric (PGE) has announced an important step toward that…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 21, 2021
April 22, 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…
Elon Musk announced that Tesla is going to bundle its solar products, solar roofs and solar panels, with its Powerwall home battery pack going forward.
You are not going to be able to buy one without the other starting next week.
Last month, Electrek exclusively reported…
Tamron announces APS-C 11-20mm F2.8, full-frame 150-500mm F5–6.7 zooms for Sony E mount
April 22, 2021
Tamron has announced the release of two new zoom lenses on opposite ends of the focal length spectrum: the 11-20mm F/2.8 Di III-A RXD for APS-C Sony E mount cameras and the 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD for full-frame Sony E mount cameras.
11–20mm F2.8 Di III-A RXD
First up is the 11–20mm F2.8 Di III-A RXD, a fast-aperture ultrawide zoom lens for Sony E mount APS-C mirrorless…
PlayStation may battle Xbox Game Pass with movies and TV
April 22, 2021
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Sony’s secret weapon in its efforts to compete with Xbox Game Pass may include movies and television. The company posted key art for something called PlayStation Plus Video Pass earlier…
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Mario Kart Tour has reached two important milestones, according to mobile market analyst Sensor Tower, racing past 200 million downloads and $200 million in lifetime revenue on both iOS and…
Infinix launches Hot 10S Series gaming smartphone
April 22, 2021
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China’s Infinix unveiled its Hot 10S Series, a gaming and entertainment smartphone that has a lot of high-end features.
The Infinix Hot 10S and Hot 10S NFC models have high-end processing, long-lasting battery, a triple camera with Super Nightscape imaging, and a smooth 6.82-inch HD+ display. This kind of…
The security of millions of iOS apps could have been compromised due to a security vulnerability in the popular dependency manager CocoaPods.
Software developers often rely on code written by other companies or developers in order to speed up the development of their…
Twitter for iOS launches 4K image support to everybody
April 22, 2021
After more than a month of testing, Twitter is finally enabling all users to upload and see 4K images on its app.
As previously reported, Twitter was testing an improved design for sharing images as well as 4K image upload support, so the user can share pictures with a…
The Pixel Launcher gained a 4×5 grid option with Developer Preview 1 in February and is now picking up a second 4×4 layout in Android 12 DP3 that notably shrinks the size of app icons.
Android 11 today offers Default (5×5), 4×4, 3×3, and 2×2 grid sizes. Each drop in the number of total apps you can see greatly enlarges the icon size. While it’s definitely useful for some, the size might…
