Huawei has pulled Tencent games like Arena of Valor from its app store because of a “big change” Tencent made in how the companies work together, according to a Bloomberg report. Huawei dominates the Chinese mobile market, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments last quarter. Tencent, meanwhile owns the companies behind League of Legends and Clash of Clans, while operating local…
Perhaps the most useful thing about the new Google TV platform is the ability to aggregate and organize content from a variety of different sources. Which ones, though? Here’s a full list of streaming services that Google TV supports at launch.
Of course, Google can pull…
How To Make Your Own Pinhole Camera With a Matchbox or ILC
January 1, 2021
A pinhole camera is a simple image capture device that doesn’t use a lens but instead makes images through a tiny aperture. The simplest ones are just a light-proof box with a hole in it, and in this 7-minute video, you’ll learn how to make one as well as how to make…
An ‘Apple Car’ EV? What we know and how we got here
January 1, 2021
Apple has gifted the world with a library of devices that have since become household names, many of which we use daily. There’s the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, and AirPods; but when you think Apple, Car is not the first word to come to mind. That might soon change as recent news has breathed new life into over ten years of rumors surrounding Apple’s attempt at an electric car. Here’s…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 31, 2020
January 1, 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…
Textcraft app for iOS and Mac offers powerful text conversion tools for HTML stripping, Base64, alt case, emoji, much more
January 1, 2021
A new app has launched to help with quick text transformations on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Textcraft brings over 50 formats that you can quickly convert your text to which should be useful for everyone from developers to everyday users.
Textcraft‘s functionality spans…
Tesla stock (TSLA) pushes to new all-time high as people who bet against it lost $38 billion in 2020
January 1, 2021
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is pushing a new all-time high as short sellers, people who bet against it, have lost $38 billion in 2020.
That’s more than on any other stock by a wide margin.
Tesla (TSLA) Short Sellers
Short selling is the process of selling shares of a company by borrowing them with the hope of buying it back lower and pocketing the difference.
Along with put options, it’s the most…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia proves thermal energy storage’s great potential.
Illinois is getting a new 185 MW wind farm.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers…
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 Review: Three months later, I’m convinced foldables are the future
January 1, 2021
You still shouldn’t buy a foldable. 2020 has seen tech move leaps and bounds, with Samsung especially releasing the excellent Galaxy Z Flip and, more importantly, the Galaxy Z Fold 2. After three months using the $2,000 foldable, I’m thoroughly convinced that this…
The year 2020 wasn’t horrible for everyone. For the companies that make electric bikes, a convenient, inexpensive, and fun way to avoid public transportation, business was so good that supply chain shortages made their products hard to find. Many companies we spoke with had record years.
It’s the move of ebikes into micromobility that has been the bigger trend for 2020, and our ebike of the…
