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Tesla Model Y receives top safety rating

September 7, 2022
Tesla continues to receive accolades for its safety ratings, with the Model Y receiving the top safety rating from Euro NCAP and Australia’s ANCAP. Australasian New Car Assessment Program or ANCAP becomes the latest car safety agency to give Tesla’s electric SUV a top safety score. We previously reported on the Model Y acing its safety test with NHTSA and achieving the highest possible…
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Sigma Developing 65mm T1.5 and 65mm T2.5 Full-Frame Cine Primes

September 7, 2022
Sigma has announced that it is developing a pair of cinema prime lenses: a 65mm T1.5 FF Cine Prime and 65mm T2.5 FF Classic Prime. The addition of these two lenses brings its line of full-frame compatible prime cinema lenses to 11. The two lenses bear the same focal length, but have some distinct differences. The 65mm T1.5 FF is a full-frame high-speed prime lens that Sigma is making…
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Google will announce new Nest products at the Pixel 7 event

September 7, 2022
Google primarily teased the Pixel 7, 7 Pro, and Watch in announcing its October 6 event this morning, but it will also introduce the “latest smart home devices from Nest.” This tidbit about Google also announcing “additions to the Nest smart home portfolio” at the…
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Gmail for Android removing text labels from the bottom bar

September 7, 2022
Soon after Gmail received a Material You redesign on Android last year, the bottom bar was shrunk, and Google is now taking things a step further by removing the descriptive labels. Since launch, the vast majority of Gmail for Android users have had “Mail,” “Chat,” “Spaces,” and “Meet” labels underneath the bottom bar icons. A few users had a version without any text, and this…
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This ‘solar tree’ may be the EV charging station of the future

September 7, 2022
London-based SolarBotanic Trees officially launched its “solar tree” prototype today, and the company wants to use it to power EV charging stations first. The SolarBotanic energy tree, which features what the company says is the “world’s first” 3-D leaf-shaped photovoltaic nanotechnology, utilizes thin-film solar cells and has a power generation capacity of 5 kilowatts. SolarBotanic…
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