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Electric vehicle spotlight (EVS): Faraday Future

March 3, 2021
We continue to spotlight up-and-coming or lesser-known electric vehicle companies, with Faraday Future. The Los Angeles based-automaker has had its fair share of ups and downs and controversies around electric vehicle technologies. With its first production EV in road testing, Faraday Future remains an automaker to watch. Faraday Future has come a long way in seven years The company was first…
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New Tesla Solar Roof tiles spotted at test facility

March 3, 2021
New Tesla Solar Roof tiles in a different color have been spotted at the automaker’s test facility near Fremont factory in California. When Tesla first unveiled its Solar Roof tiles in 2016, the product wasn’t fully formed yet, but the company had several different designs. Tesla has had issues bringing the product to volume production and deployment as it tried to test the longevity and…
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Google Fonts gets new logo as catalog adds iconography, starting with Material Icons

March 3, 2021
Given how “typography and iconography are so strongly related,” Google Fonts is adding Material icons and getting a new logo in the process. Google has long offered a catalog of free and open source fonts. It’s now adding iconography to make a one-stop discovery portal and “provide even more value to our users.” And while today’s letters and characters have evolved from abstracted…
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Google Duo on Android using ‘Lyra’ to offer natural-sounding voice calls on even a 2G connection

March 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Lyra, a new technology that allows Duo, and soon other apps, to offer natural-sounding voice chat with as little as 3 kilobytes per second of network bandwidth. With so many of us still unable to visit with loved ones, video calling apps have played a key role in keeping us all connected to one another, with Google Duo and Meet hosting over 1 trillion minutes of video last…
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