The UK government is bungling yet another aspect of the pandemic response as it appears Google and Apple have blocked a recent update to the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app over location sharing issues.
According to the BBC, this recent update was supposed to be made available on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store simultaneously as nationwide lockdowns ease over ahead of the full…
Leica APO-Summicron-M 35mm F2 ASPH lens samples
April 12, 2021
We recently took delivery of Leica’s new APO-Summicron-M 35mm F2 ASPH, and in the short time between its arrival and when it had to be sent back, we prepared a preliminary sample gallery in and around sunny Seattle.
The Leica APO-Summicron-M 35mm F2 ASPH is an…
If you’re having trouble with Google Drive services this morning, you’re not alone. Google Drive is experiencing a partial outage that’s bringing down Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for many users.
First reported by users around an hour ago, at 9 a.m. ET, Google…
Ducati backtracks on past commitment to electric motorcycles, touts ‘synthetic fuel’ instead
April 12, 2021
Despite electric motorcycles gaining an ever increasing share of the motorcycle market, Ducati is throwing cold water on the idea of a Ducati electric motorcycle.
That stands in stark contrast to comments made by Ducati’s CEO Claudio Domenicali in 2019.
Less than two years ago, Domenicali hinted that Ducati had already begun work on an electric motorcycle and that the world could expect to see…
Following the main product getting rebranded in October, Google followed with Workspace for Education this February. G Suite for Nonprofits is now Google Workspace for Nonprofits with key productivity applications available for free.
The free offering includes Gmail…
The “drop-in audio chat” app Clubhouse has become massively popular on iOS over the past couple of months, but it lacks an Android app entirely. Following an interview in late February where the app’s cofounder revealed that an Android app was the “top feature” in…
Tesla’s use of artificial intelligence in its electric vehicles is about to get better in a new software update, according to CEO Elon Musk, and he is not just talking about the automaker’s Full Self-Driving effort.
While Tesla is famous for its investment in artificial intelligence for self-driving technology, the automaker has also been using its expertise in machine learning and other…
Aki Murata, Chief Operating Officer of OM Digital Solutions (OMDS), formerly Olympus.
In the latest in our series of socially distanced interviews with senior executives across the consumer digital imaging industry, we sat down (virtually) with Aki Murata, Chief Operating…
Over the weekend, reports have come in of the recent massive Tesla solar roof price increase hitting several customers, some of whom have been waiting about a year with signed installation contracts. The price increase seems to apply to Tesla Powerwall installations, too…
We see quite a few iPhone prototype images nowadays, but something that is rare is to see an iPhone misprint or some sort of production error. New images shared on Twitter this week show an iPhone 11 Pro misprint, which could be as rare as 1 in 100 million.
The images were shared by the Internal Archive account on Twitter, which regularly shares images of rare Apple prototypes and accessories.
