ARM’s newest flagship GPU will offer hardware-based ray tracing, a first for the company. Announced today, the Immortalis-G715 promises a 15 percent performance boost compared to the firm’s previous generation of premium Mali GPUs. The performance improvement is courtesy of architectural improvements and a design that can accommodate up to 16 cores.
ARM already offered support for…
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said he believes that Tesla’s decision to ramp up 3 Gigafactories simultaneously will weaken the automaker and help VW catch up in the race to dominate the EV space.
Tesla and the Volkswagen Group are widely recognized as the leaders in…
US electric vehicle jobs exploded in 2021, clean energy jobs grew – and fossil fuel jobs shrunk
June 29, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) today released the 2022 US Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which reveals that 2021 saw electric vehicle jobs increase by a whopping 26.2%, or 21,961, new jobs.
US electric vehicle jobs led 2021 energy sector growth
The 2022 USEER…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 28, 2022
June 29, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
Nikon has announced the compact Nikkor Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S super-telephoto prime lens for its mirrorless Z-mount cameras and it says that this new optic is the lightest in its class.
The new full-frame lens for the Nikon Z Mirrorless system weighs about 2.55 pounds…
Nikon has announced the Z30 mirrorless camera designed specifically with video content creators in mind. The new 20-megapixel APS-C (DX) camera is lightweight, small, and packed full of features for vlogging and streaming.
The company says the new compact camera will…
Nikon has announced the release of the Nikkon Z 400mm F4.5 VR S, a relatively compact super-telephoto prime lens for its Z-mount mirrorless camera system.
The lens is constructed of 19 elements in 13 groups, including one Extra-low Dispersion (ED) element, two Super ED elements and one Short-wavelength Refractive (SR) lens element. The SR element refracts blue light more than green or red, helping…
Nikon announces Z30, model towards content creators
June 29, 2022
Nikon has announced the Z30, the third ‘DX’ (APS-C) model to be explicitly targeted towards content creators. It’s a 21MP compact mirrorless camera that can shoot 4K/30 or 1080/120 video with quick and easy content sharing to smartphones.
The Z30 fairly…
The Nikon Z30 is a 20MP APS-C mirrorless camera designed for vloggers and content creators. It presents a lot of elements familiar from Nikon’s existing ‘DX’ models but with a little more focus on self-shot stills and video.
Key specifications
21MP APS-C…
Help NASA Scientists Find Clouds on Mars
June 29, 2022
By identifying clouds in data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists’ understanding of the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars’ atmosphere, and you can help. They’ve organized a project called Cloudspotting on Mars that invites the public to identify Martian clouds using the citizen…
