MobileNews

Review: OnePlus Watch doesn’t just settle, it demands you do too

Smartwatches for Android are a tough subject. Wear OS works, but it has a lot of flaws. Samsung’s Tizen-based smartwatches are great, but they’re also pretty expensive and work best on Samsung’s own smartphones. Fitbit smartwatches are excellent for fitness, but not so amazing for smart features. That’s why there was a lot of excitement for OnePlus to debut its own smartwatch, the OnePlus…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

BlackRock’s Carbon Transition Fund is swimming in Big Oil

The BlackRock US Carbon Transition Readiness exchange-traded fund (ETF) (LCTU) launched last week. It broke records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested. But there’s a big problem with this ETF: It’s jam-packed with Big Oil companies. BlackRock’s fund contains Big Oil As the Fossil Free Funds website points out, BlackRock’s fund includes major oil and gas companies…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Bye eFlyer 800 will fly you and 7 of your closest friends 500nm at 320 knots, or more with solar

As a pilot and electric vehicle enthusiast, I’ve been waiting for a larger cabin aircraft to emerge from all of the electric startups. Bye aircraft, which is named after its founder, George E. Bye, not the salutation, may have a winner in its new gorgeous turboprop-class eFlyer 800… The eFlyer 800, announced today, will have only one-fifth the operating costs of traditional twin turboprops…
Read more
DefenseNews

F-35 program office announces a “strategic pause” on new logistics system

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is pausing its efforts to field replacement software for the F-35′s troubled logistics system due to a lack of funding, the head of the F-35 program office said Thursday. In 2020, the F-35 program executive office announced plans to develop a replacement for the Lockheed Martin-made Autonomic Logistics Information System currently used by maintenance…
Read more