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Quick Charge Podcast: January 23, 2021

January 24, 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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Tesla claims a software engineer stole critical automated software from its WARP Drive system

January 24, 2021
Tesla is suing a recently hired software engineer who the company claims has stolen critical automated software from its WARP Drive ERP system. Tesla WARP Drive While most automakers use commonly known enterprise software from third parties like SAP, Tesla instead decided to build its own from scratch. Tesla’s longtime chief information officer Jay Vijayan, who quietly left in January 2016, is…
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In Praise of Inexpensive Lenses

January 23, 2021
When I was a semi-professional 4×5 landscape photographer I often spent a half-hour shooting a single sheet of film and several hours enlarging it to the best of my ability. I sought the sharpest possible result. And now in the digital age, I still pursue sharp…
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Facebook says a ‘configuration change’ mistakenly logged iPhone users out of their accounts

January 23, 2021
If you woke up this morning and were inexplicably logged out of the Facebook app on your iPhone, you’re not alone. Facebook says that a “configuration change” affected people’s ability to access the Facebook app on their iPhone on Friday evening, but the issue appears to have since been resolved for most users. Facebook logged out iPhone users Interestingly, the issue seems to have…
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Honor V40 5G is official with Dimensity 1000+, 50MP main camera

January 23, 2021
Honor has announced its first phone since the company officially separated from Huawei – say hello to the Honor V40 5G. The device comes with a Dimensity 1000+ chipset, a new 50 MP camera, and speedy charging. The screen of the Honor V40 5G is a 6.72” OLED with curved sides and a pill-shaped punch hole for the dual selfie cameras. The panel supports a 120Hz refresh rate and up to 300Hz…
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