Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla snaps up battery patent for just $3 – seemingly as part of startup acquisition

Tesla has snapped up an important battery patent for just $3, but it is seemingly part of a startup acquisition up in Canada. During Tesla’s Battery Day last year, the automaker unveiled several new improvements in battery technology to deliver cheaper, cleaner battery cells with higher energy density and longevity. One of the problems Tesla wanted to solve is water usage in creating battery…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: May 4, 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…
MobileNews

Nest Thermostat bug disables Google Home app control w/ endless account migration loop

If you’re an owner of a Nest Thermostat, you might be encountering a frustrating bug this week. It appears that some Nest Thermostat owners are losing access of their devices through the Google Home app due to an account migration issue. Here’s what’s going on. Nest Thermostat owners on Twitter, Reddit, and yours truly are unable to control the device through the Google Home app. When…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty: Mobile has 500 million downloads, $1 billion in player spending since 2019

Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Call of Duty: Mobile has crossed 500 million downloads worldwide since its launch in October 2019. The mobile game has also brought in over $1 billion in player spending, said Activision president Rob Kostich during today’s earnings call of parent company Activision Blizzard. The recent Tokyo Escape expansion is the highest-grossing…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Zammo unfurls conversational AI integration service

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Zammo.ai today launched a conversational AI platform that makes it simpler to engage customers via multiple voice assistants, interactive voice response (IVR)/telephony, and chatbots without having to write any code. That no-code approach, provided via the integrations the company has embedded within its…
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