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Some of the very best Google Assistant easter eggs [Video]

January 26, 2021
The Google Assistant might be one of the best AI helpers out there, but along with so much knowledge comes pop culture references, memes, and even the odd surprise in the form of easter eggs. Every single pop culture reference and easter egg should work across your Android smartphone, Google Nest Hub, Nest Mini, Home Mini, Home, and all other Assistant-powered hardware including any third-party…
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Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS WR updated sample gallery

January 26, 2021
The Fujifilm 10-24mm F4 R OIS WR is a reasonably priced wide-angle zoom for the company’s X-mount, updated with weather-sealing and some ergonomic improvements. We’ve been shooting with it across the Pacific Northwest for a few days to see how it performs. Please…
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Shell buys Ubitricity, UK’s largest EV charging network

January 26, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell said today that it is acquiring 100% of Ubitricity, the UK’s largest public electric vehicle charging network. The amount of the acquisition is undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close later in 2021. But Shell’s true road map to net zero by 2050 won’t become more clear until next month’s strategy update. Ubitricity, founded in Germany, is a leading provider of…
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Clubhouse plans to start working on its Android app ‘soon’

January 26, 2021
If you haven’t heard of Clubhouse, it’s the latest social media fad taking the world — really, mostly just Silicon Valley — by storm. It’s a really cool experiment in live conversations that brings the best of podcasts and social networks like Twitter together…
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Tesla loses man who produced some of the ‘best engineering’ Elon Musk has seen

January 26, 2021
Tesla lost engineering director Joseph Mardall, who has helped produced “some of the best engineering” Elon Musk has seen in a long time. Tesla Model Y heat pump With Model Y last year, Tesla introduced several new design improvements, and its new heat pump is one of the main ones. A heat pump is a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to what is called a thermal…
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Leica ad reminds us of the importance of photography in documenting history

January 26, 2021
Leica invented the first 35mm camera in 1914. Recently, they created a minute-long video ad to celebrate ‘witnesses’ – photographers using their cameras for over a century to capture worldwide events, both large and small. Narrated by Joel Meyerowitz, to the music of Niccolò Pacella, it features images from 28 photographers. Love, hate, beauty, craziness, lonliness, fear…
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