In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
A new feasibility study combines California’s water canals with solar power.
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced in Congress to address the plastic pollution crisis.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching…
Hands-on with the Sigma fp L and its new viewfinder
March 26, 2021
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Hands-on with the Sigma fp L
Sigma has just announced the fp L, a high-resolution sister model to the original fp, released in 2019. With a 61MP full-frame sensor, it’s intended to be more…
Xiaomi, one of the leading global smartphone manufacturers, has teased an upcoming tech that will be found in the forthcoming Mi Mix device: a liquid lens. It’s the first of its kind in a smartphone and can apparently change focus and focal length just by altering the…
California-based EV startup Drako Motors updated us on its test program ahead of the start of deliveries of its Drako GTE electric supercar.
Scroll down for some impressive footage of the $1.2 million electric vehicle driving in the snow.
We have been following Drako over the last two years.
While the company’s first vehicle, the Drako GTE, doesn’t do much to accelerate EV adoption with a…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 25, 2021
March 26, 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…
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PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion in lifetime sales, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
This comes as Tencent itself touts that the battle royale game has passed the 1…
When AI flags the ruler, not the tumor — and other arguments for abolishing the black box (VB Live)
March 26, 2021
AI helps health care experts do their jobs efficiently and effectively, but it needs to be used responsibly, ethically, and equitably. In this VB Live event, get an in-depth perspective on the strengths and limitations of data, AI methodology and more.
Hear more from Brian Christian during our VB Live event on March 31.
Register here for free.
One of the big issues that exists within AI…
Have you noticed that when you try to delete messages in Gmail on iOS you get an archive option? Read on for how to delete Gmail on iPhone instead of archive in the Mail app.
The setting to change the default option of archiving Gmail emails with the Mail app on iPhone and…
Two weeks ago, we reported that an iPhone survived six months at the bottom of a lake. Now, a new story shows an iPhone 11 Pro that survived a 30-day dive in a deep-freezing lake in Canada.
CTV News reports that a woman named Angie Carriere was celebrating her 50th birthday…
Consumer Reports has published its breakdown of what it calls the “best smartphones of 2021.” This list breaks down the best smartphones of the year, and somewhat surprisingly, the publication ranks the iPhone 12 Pro Max as the “best iPhone” to buy.
What’s surprising about the Consumer Reports recommendation of the iPhone 12 Pro Max is that rarely does the publication endorse Apple’s…