Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment studio ILMxLAB has released a new trailer for Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, and it gives us a glimpse of the kind of adventures we can expect from Ady Sun’Zee. It shows the young Padawan exploring a mysterious Jedi temple with guidance from Yoda, who’ll be voiced by the character’s original actor Frank Oz. “A mysterious evil awaits,”…
SmartThings Find app can track down lost Samsung Galaxy devices
October 31, 2020
Smartphones and other devices are so intertwined with our lives that losing one can be traumatic. To that end, Samsung has unveiled SmartThings Find, an app that uses a variety of technologies to locate your phone, even if there’s no cell or WiFi signal.
Unlike…
Lenovo unveils transparent edition of Legion Pro gaming flagship
October 31, 2020
Lenovo unveiled a transparent edition of the Legion Pro gaming flagship. The X-shaped middle part is now see-through, allowing you to peek at the components inside (the two “wedges” on either side of the X remain opaque).
While most phones are pretty static, the Lenovo…
Samsung redesigns its Galaxy Store to focus on games
October 31, 2020
Samsung wants its phones to be the go-to option for mobile gamers, and it’s taking another step towards achieving that goal. The redesigned Galaxy Store has just two home screen tabs: one for apps and one for games.
Each time you buy a game from the Galaxy Store, you’ll earn rewards points that you can put towards another one down the line. You’ll also find exclusive promos and previews…
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s service push, changes to Tesla’s regen braking, Model 3 2021 gets its EPA rating, and more.
Discover all the new and innovative…
Tesla Gigafactory Texas is progressing on pace 100 days in, but the hard part is still to come
October 31, 2020
We are now roughly 100 days into the Tesla Gigafactory Texas construction project, and it is progressing on pace, but the hard part is still to come as Tesla tries to rapidly deploy production capacity at the new facility.
Electrek exclusively reported that Tesla’s…
Protect the earth or face deadlier pandemics — report
October 31, 2020
Twenty-two global leading experts held an urgent virtual workshop, convened by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), about the connection between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks.
The resulting report (which you can read here) states that future pandemics will become more frequent, spread more rapidly, do more damage…
CAKE has two new race-oriented versions of its electric dirt bikes, and the company is ready to put them to use on the track.
CAKE’s main two models have been their CAKE Kalk OR and CAKE Kalk INK.
The former uses nicer suspension and thus carries a bit of a premium price…
Skydio 2 Drone: Better autonomy than Tesla? You be the judge
October 31, 2020
What would happen if you set up a Skydio 2 drone to follow a Tesla Model 3 in Full Self-Driving (Beta) mode? Would it perform as well as the automobile? Better? Buckle up; we’re about to find out.
We already know that the brains inside the Skydio 2 are pretty impressive.
EGEB: Exxon to lay off 1,900 US employees
October 31, 2020
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Exxon is making big cuts to its personnel, which could be close to 15% of the global workforce.
Protect the earth and its biodiversity or face deadlier, more frequent pandemics, says a new report.
A new report from Wärtsilä shows how a net-zero electricity system in the US is possible by 2035.
Arcadia Power is committed to making clean energy…
