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Porsche sells more than 20,000 Taycan electric cars in its first year of production

Porsche announced that it sold more than 20,000 Taycan electric cars in its first full-year of production. The electric car is becoming one of the brand’s best-selling models. Porsche Taycan in 2020 Porsche released its 2020 results today and confirmed that total deliveries were down 3% in 2020 compared to its record year in 2019. The automaker is happy with the results, considering the hit…
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Camera Sales Shrank 40% in 2020

While monitoring the camera market over the past year has been like riding a volatile roller coaster, now that 2020 is behind us it can be properly evaluated as a whole. BCN+R, a major Japanese camera retailer, has released its data from the whole of 2020 and it is…
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Nikon Has Likely Discontinued the D3500 and D5600 DSLRs

Nikon Japan has designated the D5600 and D3500 as “old product,” which has historically meant that the cameras were being discontinued. This news comes after the Nikon D5600 was Japan’s top-selling DSLR of 2020. Though it continues to sell well, Nikon’s designation of the D5600 as “old product” may stem from other data that has been released from CIPA: though DSLRs move many units…
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User successfully runs Ubuntu on a jailbroken iPhone 7

The jailbreak process lets users run several tweaks and other iOS modifications, but one user recently decided to go further and install the Ubuntu operating system on an iPhone. The experiment was shared by the user identified as “newhacker1746” on Reddit. According…
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Here’s the US Navy’s plan to stop its string of shipbuilding failures

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s top officer has laid down the gauntlet: The service must deliver two new classes of surface ships on time. After 20 years of what two leading lawmakers last year called “absurd acquisition debacles,” the Navy is changing its approach. Instead of building ships and technologies in concert — as it did with the Zumwalt-class destroyer, the littoral combat…
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US Navy rolls out new strategy for expanding Arctic operations

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Department of the Navy released details of a new strategy for operations in the Arctic as competition for resources among nations increases in the region. Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation have expressed support for the increased…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 11, 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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