Using Smart Displays and speakers as an intercom system is one of Google Assistant’s most popular capabilities. Google is now updating Assistant Broadcasts so that they appear on both Android and iOS phones.
The extended experience starts with telling Assistant on your Smart Display (or speaker) to send a voice message. If you’re reaching out to a Family Group — “Hey Google, Broadcast…
What Arrival is doing is revolutionary, and since our visit last July, we have been desperate to return to its R&D centre in Banbury to see how the EV startup’s electric van and bus designs have developed.
Whilst still a prototype, the bus has come a long way with a…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The US solar industry employed 231,474 workers in 2020. By 2035, we’ll need 900,000 solar workers.
2020 saw the largest annual decrease in US energy production on record.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to…
NIO, one of the most successful new electric automakers to come out of China, is expanding for the first time out of its home country – starting with launching its electric vehicles in Norway.
From the start, NIO had global ambitions.
It even marketed itself has a “global automaker,” but it had to rein back its ambitions as it discovered just how difficult it is to bring an electric…
It’s been just a few months since Google started rolling out homescreen ads to Android TV, and in that time, users haven’t exactly let up in showing their displeasure over the change. As it turns out, things have gotten so bad in the Play Store that the Android TV home…
Belgium’s Cowboy has already run through several generations of its popular urban-oriented electric bicycles. Now the company has just unveiled the new Cowboy C4 e-bike, which is available in two different models.
The new C4 upgrades the classic Cowboy e-bike, while the…
Google brings Gboard to Wear OS for first major app launch in years, more teased for 2021
May 7, 2021
Gboard today is available on Android, iOS, Google/Android TV, and is now coming to Wear OS. The company touts this as bringing “faster and easier messaging” to your wearable.
Wear OS currently uses an app/service called “Google Keyboard.” Gboard brings a new UI that features better spacing for keys to make everything less visually overwhelming. Meanwhile, the top row features shortcuts…
Renault Mégane E-TECH Electric production shots revealed as automaker rebrands for electric era
May 7, 2021
Today in France, Renault CEO Luca de Meo and the Renault brand team shared their new vision of the company. They painted themselves as an energy transition leader on the forefront of the latest technology and services, operating in a more sustainable and responsible manner.
The costs of most existing coal-fired power plants in the US are now more expensive than the total costs of wind and solar as a result of their plunging costs, according to a new study.
Coal versus wind and solar
US think tank Energy Innovation reports:
Today, local wind…
Tesla moves to give greater access to data from your electric car after pressure in China
May 7, 2021
Tesla announced that it will create a database to give greater access to data from their electric cars after being under pressure in China.
Over the last few months, there have been a lot of discussions about data with Tesla in China.
Firstly, we reported on the People’s Liberation Army, China’s military, issuing a notice banning Tesla owners from parking their vehicles on bases and in…
