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Quick Charge Podcast: March 13, 2021

March 14, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Apple promotes iPhone 12 durability in new ad [Video]

March 13, 2021
Apple has launched a new ad promoting the iPhone 12 durability. It’s not the first time the company has emphasized this, as in its iPhone keynote last year, it said that this model has four times better drop performance. In the ad named Cook, a clumsy cooker tries to learn a recipe while reading the steps on his iPhone 12. The result is that he spills lots of sauce on the iPhone, fills it with…
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Open the Google Search calculator for a fun Pi Day easter egg

March 13, 2021
Pi Day — March 14th — in 2021 is this Sunday and Google is celebrating with an easter egg when you open Search’s built-in calculator. It tests how well you know the mathematical constant. Searching for “pi” or “pi day” will bring up the Google Search…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: An $1,850 electric motorcycle with only one wheel

March 13, 2021
If your biggest problem with motorcycles is that they are just too darn safe, then I’ve got just the product for you! This week’s entry in the Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week series is the strangest one-wheeled self-balancing electric motorcycle you’ve ever seen. And also probably the only one you’ve ever seen. If you thought things couldn’t get weirder around here, then you…
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Meyer Optik Görlitz Unveils Primoplan 58mm f/1.9 II Lens

March 13, 2021
Meyer Optik Görlitz has announced the 58mm f/1.9 II for multiple camera mounts and promises a lens that shares the characteristics of the original but manufactured with modern production processes and high-quality materials. The 58mm f/1.9 II will be available for nine…
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Tesla removed drivers who weren’t paying attention from Full Self-Driving beta as it expands

March 13, 2021
Elon Musk says that has Tesla removed from the Full Self-Driving Beta drivers who they determined weren’t paying enough attention. The automaker also expanded the beta to now a total of roughly 2000 Tesla owners. Last week, Musk announced that Tesla is doubling the size of its Full Self-Driving beta program. Back in October 2020, Tesla started to push a Full Self-Driving Beta release to…
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