This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s delivery record, Tesla Semi production, the new Kia EV6, and more.
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The appointment of the Brazilian Army’s former chief health officer as the new service commander is an effort by President Jair Bolsonaro to heal a rift created by his firing of the defense minister and the subsequent removal of the top generals of all three military…
The OnePlus 9 Pro is the company’s most expensive smartphone ever at $969, but so far buyers have only had access to the top-end $1,069 version of the device. Now, we’ve confirmed with OnePlus that the OnePlus 9 Pro with 128GB of storage won’t be launching in the US…
Elon Musk: Tesla is still hoping to build retro diner at new Santa Monica Supercharger station
April 3, 2021
Tesla is apparently still planning to build a 1950s-style diner at a new Santa Monica Supercharger station.
In 2018, Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to open an “old-school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in Los Angeles.”
It was yet another “Is he joking?” kind of Elon Musk idea, but he apparently wasn’t kidding.
A few…
Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series, begins this weekend with its inaugural race, the Desert X Prix, in the deserts of Al-‘Ula, Saudi Arabia.
The race itself happens on Sunday at 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. UTC (3 a.m. PDT, 6 a.m. EDT, 1 p.m. local Saudi time) and…
With the last major overhaul in 2019, Google simplified the Home app to have two primary screens from four. Google Home now has settings to customize the “Feed” tab to “choose the types of events” that can appear.
Widely rolled today, there’s a new button in the…
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Nobody likes cheaters. I was playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently with my friend Anthony Palma, and he took down another player. That player was completely dead, not wounded. And then the player auto-rezzed, got up, and escaped. Another time, I was hiding in a building, and then I got shot through the…
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Why AI can’t solve unknown problems
April 2, 2021
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When will we have artificial general intelligence, the kind of AI that can mimic the human mind in all aspect? Experts are divided on the topic, and answers range anywhere between a…
What can I use to charge iPhone 12
April 2, 2021
Apple no longer includes the standard USB charging brick with the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro or iPhone 12 mini. There is only one cable included in the box — a USB-C to Lightning cable. But how can you charge the iPhone 12?
If you are coming from an older iPhone, you probably have a lot of USB-A to Lightning cables laying around.
These cables have a rectangular USB connection on one end a…
