When it comes to fun-sized electric trucks, there’s just nowhere else to look but China’s fantastically weird Alibaba collection. Those engineers must spend night and day dreaming up the wildest electric vehicles that can be built for the absolute lowest rock-bottom price. And this week we’ve landed on another doozy for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week entry: A cheap…
Capcom vet Hiroyuki Kobayashi joins NetEase
August 13, 2022
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Capcom veteran Hiroyuki Kobayashi announced on Twitter today that he is joining NetEase…
Since launching in 2011, Gogoro (GGR) has grown into an EV battery swap leader. Gogoro released its Q2 earnings results yesterday, signaling a cautious but optimistic road ahead in the second half of 2022.
Gogoro’s previous growth continued in Q2, according to its…
US House passes climate bill, on to President Biden
August 13, 2022
The United States House of Representatives has voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive climate bill passed by the Senate on Sunday, in a party-line vote of 220-207, supported by Democrats and opposed by republicans.
Now it goes on to Biden’s desk – where the President is expected to sign it in the coming days – which will immediately affect the availability of EV tax…
Tesla has decided to stop taking new orders for its Model 3 Long Range, one of its most popular models, in the United States and Canada. The automaker has adopted this new business model to avoid creating delivery timelines that are super long for customers.
There’s…
At the start of this month, Google updated the Android distribution numbers to reveal that Android 12 is running on 13.3% of devices.
Before the August 4 update, Google last refreshed the Android Platform/API Version Distribution in Android Studio on May 9. Four months…
Google Photos renaming ‘Archive’ to ‘Hidden’ as Android shows on-device file location
August 13, 2022
In a small tweak, Google Photos is renaming the “Archive” ability that lets you hide images and videos from the main feed to be much more obvious.
Upon updating Google Photos for iOS to version 6.1 today, we were greeted by an “Archive is now called Hidden” prompt:
Hidden photos will still show up in albums and search results. You can find the Hidden folder in the Library…
For the utmost hard-core Android gamer, the GameSir X3 may be the ultimate mobile controller, carrying almost every feature you could ask for – including in-depth customization and an RGB fan – but that excess comes at a cost.
Cooling
The key difference between the…
Is the Galaxy Watch 5 and 5 Pro waterproof? What you need to know before taking a swim
August 13, 2022
For the last few years, wearables like the Galaxy Watch series have been designed to deal with water exposure at varying levels. The Galaxy Watch 5 can certainly take a splash or two, but at what level? This guide will help you determine just how waterproof your Galaxy Watch…
We’ve now learned that the Pixel Buds Pro mark the first known major use of Google’s open source Pigweed development kit.
Back in 2020, Google unveiled Pigweed, an open source collection of libraries or “modules” meant to make it easier to develop for embedded devices. In layman’s terms, Pigweed is something of a starter kit for creating a new gadget.
At the time, Pigweed was…
