U.S. Army Sgt. Gage Stancell, right, looks through binoculars as Sgt. Gentry Squier describes where he saw a drone during an unmanned aerial system training exercise at Erbil Air Base in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, April 24, 2020. (U.S. Army/Spc. Angel Ruszkiewicz)
The Army could be required to find a new capability for countering the increasing threat of enemy unmanned drones and get it ready…
Razer mice and keyboards hit all-time lows in Best Buy one-day sale
December 12, 2020
Now’s a good time to grab a gaming mouse, keyboard or headset if you’re in need of an upgrade or you’re still searching for a good gift for the gamer in your life. Best Buy has a one-day-only sale on Razer peripherals today and included in it is one of our favorite…
iPhone users continue to report missing Messages app notifications after updating to iOS 14
December 12, 2020
A bug resulting in missing text message notifications is continuing to affect iPhone users with iOS 14. While the issue appeared to at first to be exclusive to the iPhone 12 series, it appears to be affecting nearly any iPhone model running iOS 14 — and the early signs…
Nearly all of Apple’s MagSafe accessories for iPhone 12 provide a decent amount of value. But one of them has so much underutilized potential coupled with an astronomical price tag. Of course, I’m talking about Apple’s new MagSafe Sleeve.
Apple has been making really high-quality leather sleeves for various products for a couple of years now but the MagSafe Leather Sleeve is unique. Not…
Hyundai confirms its $1.1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics
December 12, 2020
Boston Dynamics is now officially part of Hyundai Motor Group. The Korean conglomerate has struck a deal with Softbank to acquire a controlling interest — an 80 percent stake — in the robotics company for $1.1 billion. Softbank will retain a 20 percent stake through one…
VW has unveiled a new 22 kW bi-directional DC charging station for electric vehicles that sort of closes the gap between level 2 charging and level 3 DC fast-charging.
Typically, we refer to charging electric vehicles with 3 different levels.
Level 1 or trickle charging…
EGEB: COVID causes record global emissions drop in 2020
December 12, 2020
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Global emissions are expected to drop around 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 (7%), a record.
Amazon declares that it’s now the largest corporate purchaser of green energy in the world.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so…
Galaxy S21 hands-on leak shows off the thin bezels, flat display, matte back [Video]
December 12, 2020
The war on bezels continues with Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S21 series as a new video shows off the phone’s very slim bezels all around on the completely flat display.
Posted to YouTube today, this video depicts what appears to be the mid-tier Galaxy S21+ model…
These US-built electric mopeds are expanding to Europe, adding electric motorcycles
December 12, 2020
North Carolina-based Huck Cycles may be less than a year old, but the electric moped company is moving fast!
I first stumbled upon the company in April of this year. There was almost no information available, so I called up founder Brett McCoy to figure out what was going…
You can now search Google Assistant settings on Android as Routines UI tests tweaks
December 12, 2020
Back in August, Google redesigned preferences for Assistant to just be one long alphabetical list. The Google Assistant settings page on Android now features a very convenient search field as tweaks to the Routines interface are being tested.
When we first spotted the new Google Assistant settings UI, which dropped the four-tab layout, in development earlier this year, it already featured a…
