Tesla is losing one of its top manufacturing engineers to Redwood Materials, a new startup founded by Tesla co-founder and long-time CTO JB Straubel.
Tesla’s Head of Model S/X Production Line
Andy Hamilton, a 10-year veteran at Tesla and longtime manufacturing engineer, announced that he left the automaker:
“After 10 amazing years working at Tesla, I am now moving on to my next adventure. I…
TCL is one of the biggest names in TV right now thanks to super affordable hardware that, frankly, is really good. After bringing Android TV models to the US market in 2020, TCL has just announced that it will be adopting Google TV in 2021.
At CES 2021 today, TCL announced…
Stadia is set to make a couple of platform expansions in 2021, including LG’s WebOS as announced at CES 2021. In a further announcement, LG has clarified what TVs will be getting access to the Stadia app, and there’s both good news and bad news.
The good news? Stadia…
After debuting its wacky Wing phone in 2020, LG has been teasing its next Explorer Project device which has a rollable display. Now, at CES 2021, LG has dropped another teaser for the Rollable, this time confirming its name and showing it in action.
During LG’s CES 2021 presentation, the company cut to a very brief clip that shows a phone being held as its screen starts to shrink down. At the…
Back in November, Google announced an “early preview” of Assistant Driving Mode in the US. It has officially been “rolling out” since late last year, but most users have yet to receive it. The company today reiterated that the preview is coming.
Intended to replace…
Google Chrome address bar may soon default to HTTPS
January 12, 2021
Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version.
For years now, HTTPS has steadily grown from being a way of feeling secure about…
WASHINGTON — To rebuild American sea power and face a growing Chinese threat, the U.S. Navy must get a larger share of the Defense Department’s budget, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee said Monday at the annual Surface Navy Association meeting.
Reps. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., respectively the chair and ranking…
Qualcomm’s new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is larger and faster, probably debuting in Galaxy S21
January 12, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy S21 reveal event is just a few days away, and today Qualcomm might have given us a preview of one piece of that phone’s hardware with its latest in-display fingerprint sensor, which is both larger and faster.
As CES 2021 is now officially underway…
LG Unveils Beautifully Thin, Color-Accurate 4K OLED Monitor
January 11, 2021
Though LG is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the OLED panels you’ll see in TVs and displays on the market, the company had yet to produce its own OLED monitor. Today that changes with the announcement of the LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro.
Using OLED…
Dina raises $7 million for its AI-powered at-home care platform
January 11, 2021
Dina, a Chicago-based startup developing an AI-powered at-home care platform, today announced it has raised $7 million. The company says the capital will be used to expand its products and support its mission to help the health care industry transition to in-home care.
In response to the pandemic, companies like Current Health and Twistle have teamed up with Providence and other health care…
