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Google boosts referrals and other rewards on new Google Pay to $21 until the new year

December 17, 2020
The new Google Pay app brings new ways to manage your funds and exchange money between friends, but it also has a powerful rewards offering. Now, Google is boosting some rewards in the new Google Pay to $21 through the new year. From now until December 31, select rewards in the new Google Pay app are being upgraded. Firstly, that includes direct referrals, which have jumped from just $5 to a…
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Electric vehicle battery cost officially dips under critical $100/kWh price point but there’s a catch

December 17, 2020
Electric vehicle batteries have officially dipped under the critical $100 per kWh price point for the first time. However, it was for the price of battery packs for electric buses in China. Price per kWh is a metric used to track the price of batteries. It can be used to talk about the cost of battery packs or battery cells. For example, Tesla was achieving a cost per kWh of $150 for its Model…
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Google tests new Search image and text previews on hover

December 17, 2020
Google Search is perhaps the most-used tool on the web today, and as such the company is always experimenting with new ways to improve it. This week, Google Search is testing a slight UI tweak that shows image previews when you hover over a link. Showing up now for some…
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Google, Qualcomm lay the technical groundwork for 4 years of Android updates

December 17, 2020
Today, Pixel phones and the top Samsung devices are guaranteed to get three years of major software upgrades. Working with Qualcomm, Google is now making it feasible for Android devices to get 4 OS versions and years of security updates. In 2017, Google re-architected Android to be more modular, thus allowing updates to be easier and faster to implement. With Project Treble, OEMs can just update…
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Japanese Astronaut Snaps Incredible Photos of Earth from Space

December 16, 2020
Japaneses astronaut Soichi Noguchi has emerged as the International Space Station’s resident photographer, uploading a slew of incredible images of Earth taken from the Cupola Observational Module. Noguchi is a Japanese astronaut that joined the crew of the ISS via the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft which was propelled out of the atmosphere by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on November 15. Back…
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