Tesla is going into a hiring spree for motor and actuator designers and engineers for its humanoid Optimus robot program. The automaker is actually hiring more for the robot program than for its electric vehicles.
CEO Elon Musk has made it clear that Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot program, has become a priority for the automaker’s development teams. This level of priority is starting to be…
BYD may be about to launch a premium $145k+ EV
August 26, 2022
The Chinese automaking giant BYD (Build Your Dreams) is considering releasing a premium EV line as soon as this year, with prices starting at around $145,000.
According to a new report from First Financial, a news outlet in China, BYD is planning to increase the price of…
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, Tesla launching a cheaper Tesla Model Y in Europe, FSD getting a price hike, new Kia EV9 images, and more.
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Debra, an Air Force working dog, wears specialized eye protection, allegedly in preparation for a photo shoot with Vanity Fur, Aug. 23, 2022 at Patrick Space force Base, Fla. (Senior Airman Samuel Becker/U.S. Space Force)
This week in the military, the Justice Department is seeking a 17-year prison sentence for a Marine veteran who assaulted a police officer with the Marine Corps flag on Jan.
Photographer Nicholas Sherlock 3D printed a $25 super wide-angle macro lens using glass from a CCTV camera and a 4x microscope.
The DIY lens adapter builds on Sherlock’s last project, a 3D printed 4x telescopic macro adapter lens.
A wide-angle macro lens…
Aurora chasing photographer MaryBeth Kiczenski had to battle a camera that failed on her to capture this gorgeous photo of the northern lights dancing over a sunflower field.
Kiczenski tells PetaPixel that the screen on her Nikon Z6 camera cut out on her at a…
Photographer Richard Malogorski uses an incredibly complex 1915 Cirkut camera to capture 360-degree panoramics on film.
Despite most modern smartphones having a panoramic mode and an increasingly expanding 360-degree camera market, Malogorski chooses to use a large-format 100-year-old analog camera for his 360 panoramics.
Malogorski with the large format Cirkut
Cemetery, Rocky Springs…
A Canon patent application in Japan outlines the technology and optical formulas to achieve Defocus Smoothing using electrochromic elements (EC). With EC elements, a lens with variable apodization is possible. Before looking at the patent literature, it’s worthwhile to…
Prime Gaming adds Assassin’s Creed Origins in September
August 26, 2022
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Amazon announced today which games are coming to Luna’s Prime Gaming Channel and what…
Google Tensor put out a relatively strong debut in the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, but it was clear there was plenty of room for improvement. While Tensor 2 is set for the Pixel 7 series in just a couple of months, work is already rumored to be underway on the third generation of Tensor at Samsung.
Rumor has it, according to the folks over at GalaxyClub, that Samsung is currently in early testing…
