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Google prepares to open up Nearby Share to everyone near you, multiple people at once

After years of users clamoring for the functionality, Google finally debuted its own version of Apple’s AirDrop last year. Now, we’ve spotted what’s next for Nearby Share — the ability to see everyone around you and to send files to more than one person at once. Nearby Share is already useful in its current form, but there’s plenty of room for improvement. As it stands today, the…
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VW orders $14 billion worth of battery cells from Northvolt’s gigafactory, takes bigger stake

Volkswagen Group confirmed that it placed a new order for $14 billion worth of battery cells from Northvolt’s Swedish gigafactory, and it is taking a bigger stake in the battery manufacturer. Northvolt is a battery startup founded by two former Tesla executives who worked on Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada with Panasonic. The Swedish startup received investments from several companies…
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The easiest way to solar charge an electric bicycle (even at night!)

There’s just something so natural-feeling about charging an e-bike from solar power. E-bikes are already such environmentally responsible alternatives to cars that they make me want to go the rest of the way and charge them in what feels like an environmentally responsible form too – with solar power that I generated onsite myself.  I’ve played with various methods for solar charging my…
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Google Discover shrinks weather info down to a chip

Google’s ever-present Discover feed is testing a minor design tweak that moves the weather from a wide strip down to a chip in the corner. The Google Discover feed is available in quite a variety of places, such as the far-left page of some Android launchers, the new tab…
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Google Drive for Android getting a more prominent notifications feed

Google is introducing a “new way to view and manage notifications” related to your Drive files. The hope is that users with this new notifications feed will spend less time switching between Google Drive for Android and an email app. From the Home or Priority (available for Workspace users) bottom bar tab, users will be able to switch between “Suggested” and the new “Notifications”…
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