An insurance company has faked a Tesla battery fire and crash as part of a bizarre showcase to show that electric cars cause more accidents.
Tesla vehicles have been tested by many auto safety agencies around the world, including the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which most recently gave the Tesla Model Y its highest possible safety rating.
When I received an email telling me…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 30, 2022
August 31, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Engineers Solve Data Glitch on NASA’s Voyager 1
August 31, 2022
A critical system aboard the probe was sending garbled data about its status. Engineers have fixed the issue but are still seeking the root cause.
Engineers have repaired an issue affecting data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Earlier this year, the probe’s…
Twitter Circles were first announced earlier this year, bringing back the name and general idea of Google+’s Circles. Now, Circles are rolling out widely to everyone.
What are Twitter Circles? As we covered back in May, the idea here is to send tweets to a select group of users rather than the general public. Up to 150 users can be in a Circle, and tweets sent to a Circle can’t be retweeted or…
Google celebrates its inception every year on September 27 and marks it internationally with deals on first-party hardware. The Google Store will be having that one-day 24th birthday sale a bit early next week.
Across most European and some Asia-Pacific (Japan and Taiwan…
Google debuted the ability to have themed icons on the homescreen in Android 12, designed to help go all-in on Material You theming. Now, in Android 13, third-party apps can get in on the fun of themed icons; here’s an ongoing list of apps that support the…
Last September, the Google app redesigned its “Collections” tab, and the system built in to Search for bookmarks is now becoming more prominent with a save button directly on mobile web results.
When opening web pages through the Google app (Search or Discover), the built-in browser (on iOS and Chrome Custom Tab for Android) has long featured an “Add to collection” button in the top-right…
Google Design today shared a video “collage of animated experiments inspired by #MaterialDesign,” specifically Material You.
Coming in at under two minutes, it’s the culmination of artwork created by someform Studio that Google Design commissioned and has been sharing…
Ubisoft’s Rocksmith+ subscription service will arrive on September 6th, the publisher announced today. Following a nearly year-long delay, the guitar learning platform will be available on PC exclusively through the Ubisoft Store. With 5,000 songs available at lunch…
In a week, Apple will announce the new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro series. With leakers now debating over the colors that Apple will unveil, graphic designer Ian Zelbo has shared some renders with the possible colors for these upcoming phones – and they look great
Ian Zelbo‘s renders use information shared by Twitter user Jioriku and an account from Naver. Both have said these will be the…
