Everyone is looking for indoor activities amid the current situation, and Google is providing one in the form of a video tutorial on how to make an origami Android mascot.
The Android Developers Twitter account this morning kicked off the new year by sharing an Android origami fold-along tutorial on YouTube.
Grab some paper and fold along as we create an Android logo origami. We hope you’ll…
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…
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 your digital camera into one.
COOPH regularly uploads fun and easy photography projects that either involves simple tools or…
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…
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 everything being able to more quickly have fun with text to valuable utility for developers and more.
There’s basic text…
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…
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 technology is the future, but it’s not ready yet. Let’s talk.
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Without a doubt the most impressive thing about the…