In addition to offering user-facing apps, Google Workspace gives companies the ability to manage their employees’ devices. Google Workspace admins now have more control over Android app updates on work devices that use managed Google Play.
Previously, the default behavior for app updates in managed Google Play was contingent on the device being connected to a Wi-Fi network, to be charging, and…
“Are you breaking stuff over there?” my wife said, seconds after my phone hit the ground. Sadly, though, I was. My Pixel 6 Pro’s display was dead and, for the first time in years, it was time to figure out the cost and time it would take to repair my daily driver.
Google’s long-term goal for its hardware is having technology that’s always available in the background to help. The latest work towards Ambient Computing from Google is about “hidden interfaces” where the display is invisible unless being used. This is similar to…
While straightforward SMS texting isn’t perfect by any means, the adoption of the RCS standard means you can do pretty neat things in Google Messages that you couldn’t for a very long time. Follow along to learn a few tips and tricks for using RCS messaging and Google Messages features to the fullest.
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What is RCS messaging?
How to use RCS on Android
What Google Messages…
Safari got an overhaul with iOS 15, and while there are a number of improvements and changes, some features aren’t found where they used to be. Read along for a look at how to switch to iPhone Private Browsing in Safari with iOS 15.
As a refresher, here’s how Apple…
CIRP: iPhone 13 best-selling lineup in recent years (despite tiny interest in iPhone mini)
April 22, 2022
A new report by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that the iPhone 13 lineup is delivering ”some of the best results in many quarters,” although the two mini version launched so far still account for as little as 3% of all sales on the second quarter of…
Europeans already love electric cargo bikes, and now Americans are embracing these low-cost car alternatives
April 21, 2022
Electric cargo bikes, which are essentially normal electric bicycles with stretched frames for carrying more gear or passengers, are becoming increasingly popular as car alternatives in the US.
The move follows a common trend in the electric bike industry that sees Americans tracking several years behind European e-bike industry currents.
The last time much of the Electrek team was in Germany…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $675 million to accelerate its tunnel-digging under cities
April 21, 2022
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it has raised $675 million in a new funding round valuing the company at $5.675 billion. It plans to use the funds to build many new boring machines and dig tunnels under more cities.
The Boring Company (TBC) wrote in a press…
The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK [update]
April 21, 2022
A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest.
April 21, 2022…
Elon Musk confirmed through a new SEC filing that he secured $46 billion in financing to make a tender offer to Twitter, but he will likely need to negotiate with the social media’s board after they adopted a poison pill defense. This time, it is truly “funding secured.”
When trying to take Tesla private back in 2018, Musk got into trouble with the SEC for tweeting “funding secured,”…
