This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s Q1 earning results, Tesla Powerwall 2+, Elon Musk on new FSD Beta update, and more.
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The Denver metro area of Colorado is the next major city to see Amazon packages delivered by Rivian electric vans. The vans were spotted this past week across Denver and its surrounding cities, such as Boulder and Aurora. The capital of Colorado remains one of 16 cities…
Tesla Cybertruck camper system receives $50 million in orders, and it doesn’t even exist yet
May 1, 2021
A third-party Tesla Cybertruck camper system has received over $50 million worth of orders even though the product doesn’t even exist yet.
It shows just how excited people are for the new electric pickup trucks and the kinds of adventures you can do with it.
Earlier this…
Google proposal for multi-skin toned handshake emoji expected with Unicode 14.0 next year
May 1, 2021
Emoji is undeniably one big reason why people update to the latest operating system every year. A proposal from Google for a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is expected to happen in 2022 with Unicode 14.0.
Google’s creative director for emoji, Jennifer Daniel, first proposed the addition in November of 2019. It specifically involves a “right hand in all the various skin tone shades and a…
You can get Apple’s AirTag for Samsung smartphones in the Galaxy SmartTag+, available now
May 1, 2021
Apple’s AirTag launched today and is dominating news cycles, but it’s a device that only has the most limited possible functionality with Android phones. Here’s the good news, though. If you have a Samsung smartphone, you can get your own version of the AirTag in the…
Google is experimenting with putting ultra-wideband (UWB) connectivity into their Android hardware, likely for the Pixel 6 family of phones.
Over the last year or so, UWB has become the latest hot feature for smartphones and smart home devices alike. In the Apple…
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The Call of Duty Endowment unveiled its #CODEMedicalHeroes campaign to raise $3 Million to employ veterans in high-paying jobs.
Under the campaign, the endowment will honor veteran medics and hospital corpsmen and bring attention to the difficulties that they face finding jobs in the civilian healthcare industry. Through a series of…
While many now understand that science, technology, engineering, art, and math education, or STEAM, is important to the success of the video game industry, it’s critical to creating meaningful opportunities for marginalized people.
On the second day of GamesBeat Summit…
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Epic Games has acquired ArtStation, which operates a marketplace for artists to sell their art, post jobs, and host portfolios — and it’s cutting the fees that folks pay to sell their wares on the site.
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Facebook today announced that it developed an algorithm in collaboration with Inria called DINO that enables the training of transformers, a type of machine learning model, without labeled training data. The company claims it sets a new state-of-the-art among unlabeled data training methods and leads to a model that can…
