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…
Pixel 4a shoppers are being pushed to the Pixel 4a 5G with revamped Google Store listing
December 5, 2020
Google’s two budget “a” phones this year are universally praised and highly sought after. The Pixel 4a launched first in August, while the 4a 5G followed with the Pixel 5 this fall. With the holiday shopping season under way, a change to the Google Store reflects how…
Should Tesla (TSLA) raise an insane amount of cash at crazy stock price to accelerate its plans?
December 5, 2020
As Tesla (TSLA) is reaching new, insane levels of market capitalization, some suggest that it could be a good idea to again raise money and try to accelerate its effort to build more electric vehicle and battery production capacity.
Tesla has already done two capital…
Google Fi will stop activating non-VoLTE phones in January, offering bill credit to upgrade
December 5, 2020
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…
The Air Force wanted to mothball over 100 planes. Here’s what Congress says it will permit.
December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON — Congress is seeking to block the Air Force from retiring any of its A-10 Warthog attack planes, KC-135 refueling tankers and RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones this fiscal year.
On Dec. 3, the House and Senate Armed Services committees put forward the…
Defense Business Board members replaced with Trump loyalists
December 5, 2020
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…
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…
Podcast: Tesla (TSLA) profit vs massive cap raise, software update, Lucid’s factory, and more
December 5, 2020
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a discussion about Tesla making profits versus doing a massive capital raise, a new Tesla software update, Lucid’s factory, and more.
Discover…
The holiday tech-product refresh season continues with Razer updating its take on the wireless earbuds. The Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro Earbuds are available now for $200. For that price, you get the familiar dual buds and charging case that is standard for this…
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…