Fisker, Henrik Fisker’s latest electric vehicle startup, wants to build an electric vehicle with Foxconn, a massive Chinese company better known for being an Apple supplier.
After the original Fisker Automotive went bankrupt, the assets of the defunct EV startup were purchased by a Chinese interest who relaunched the company and its Karma (now Revero) plug-in hybrid.
A few years later, Henrik…
YouTube Music for Android now lets you repeat songs while Casting
February 25, 2021
The criticism of YouTube Music, especially from Google Play Music users, is that it bizarrely lacks basic features. One of those is the ability to repeat songs while Casting, though that has finally just been added to YouTube Music on Android.
For the past few weeks, there…
Jetpack Compose enters beta, making Android UI development easier
February 25, 2021
Jetpack Compose, Google and Jetbrain’s up-and-coming Kotlin-based UI toolkit for Android, is entering beta testing stage, meaning it’s now suitable for production-ready apps.
Some could point to Jetpack Compose as an Android-native alternative to Google’s other UI…
With Jetpack Compose entering beta today, the Android team is encouraging developers to learn about and “get ready to adopt” the modern toolkit for building native UI. To do so, Google is launching a monthlong Android Dev Challenge that includes Jetpack Compose-themed prizes.
Google will offer four weekly challenges that familiarize developers with the Compose mental model and different…
A free version of Google Chat is officially set to arrive in the first half of 2021. As we spotted earlier this month, Google is starting the Hangouts migration with a “preview of the new Chat” for free, personal accounts.
Chat has long just been a Workspace-only app…
In 2019, Google introduced a powerful Recorder app with real-time transcriptions for Pixel devices. The latest version, released alongside the Pixel 5, added editing and social sharing through video clips. A Google Recorder web app is coming soon with the ability to backup…
Google TV ‘basic’ mode will strip smart features, apps on TVs from TCL, Sony, others
February 25, 2021
Google TV is the company’s next effort to rule the living room, picking up on the progress that Android TV made over half a decade. The first smart TVs running on top of Google TV have yet to hit the market, but when they do, they’ll come with a “Basic TV” feature that strips smart features from the TV.
This new “Basic TV” option appears at setup for television sets running on Google…
Maryland county transitioning to electric public school buses
February 25, 2021
Maryland’s Montgomery County plans to switch the entire public school bus fleet to fully electric from diesel engines. The transition is one of the largest in the US to date, and is expected to take 12 years. The green plan will completely replace all 1,400 current ICE…
Tesla prepares cloud-based driver profile ahead of ‘Tesla Network’ ride-hailing app launch
February 25, 2021
Tesla is preparing to move all driver data and settings into the cloud ahead of the launch of its “Tesla Network” ride-hailing app launch.
Driver profiles exist in Tesla vehicles and are linked to keys (or phones through the Tesla app) in order to automatically have…
The first-ever World Defense Show in Saudi Arabia is a year away. Are event planners ready?
February 25, 2021
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabian Military Industries is the official strategic partner for the World Defense Show, a defense conference scheduled for an inaugural launch in March 2022 in Saudi Arabia, event organizers announced Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Military Industries, which is charged with building a sustainable domestic defense sector, founded the…
