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After conquering electric motorcycles, Energica announces plans for electric boats

Energica has just announced a technological partnership designed to develop high tech electric watercraft. The Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer will be teaming up with Italian marine startup Sealence s.r.l. Energica described the company as “an innovative startup that has revolutionized the world of naval propulsion with its own DeepSpeed electric jet.” Together, the two companies…
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MobileNews

Google Fi will stop activating non-VoLTE phones in January, offering bill credit to upgrade

T-Mobile is moving relatively quickly to have all phones on its network support voice over LTE. Google Fi, as an MVNO, has to follow this decision and is encouraging customers with older phones to upgrade before next month through a promotional credit. In requiring VoLTE, carriers can shutdown legacy 3G networks, while customers get noticeably better call quality as the conversation is happening…
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DefenseNews

Defense Business Board members replaced with Trump loyalists

WASHINGTON — Nine members of the Defense Business Board, an advisory panel of outside experts for the Defense Department, have been replaced, the Pentagon announced Friday. Among the newcomers are loyalists to President Donald Trump, Some of the incoming DBB members are…
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Google Assistant ‘spoken notifications’ now available on all wired headphones

Besides voice commands, the key aspect of Google Assistant headphones is having incoming notifications read aloud. Google has now brought this Assistant feature to all wired headphones, regardless of whether they’ve been optimized by the manufacturer. Update: Google has confirmed to us that Assistant support, with features like spoken notifications, is officially available on all wired…
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The Incredible Work From the Artist Behind the Photoshop 2021 Splash Photo

You may not realize it, but you’ve already enjoyed the work of Photographer and digital artist Ted Chin. He makes some of the most eye-catching, surreal composite images you will likely ever see, and one greets you every time you open the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Chin has been making photo manipulations for the last six years, one of which you’ve very likely already enjoyed. In 2017…
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