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The Biden administration is set to beat its 25 GW by 2025 onshore clean energy goal – and it needs to tell everyone

April 22, 2022
The Biden administration set a goal of permitting 25 gigawatts (GW) of solar, onshore wind, and geothermal energy on public lands by 2025. It’s well on its way to exceeding that goal. 25 GW by 2025 clean energy – and then some In January 2022, the White House reported that since President Joe Biden took office, his administration had approved 18 onshore projects totaling 4.175 GW (including…
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Quick Charge Podcast: April 21, 2022

April 22, 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…
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BlowerBaby is the World’s First Electronic Camera Sensor Blower

April 22, 2022
The Nitecore BlowerBaby is the world’s first electronic, rechargeable air duster designed specifically for cameras and delicate tech. Photographers are in a constant battle when it comes to keeping dust off mirrorless sensors and the mainstay solutions are all manual blowers or specialized stickers. NiteCore’s curiously named BlowerBaby is a lightweight electronic air-duster that is…
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Google Fi rolling out straightforward Material You redesign on Android

April 22, 2022
After widget tweaks last year, Google Fi has now redesigned its Android app with Material You. It’s a straightforward modernization as the company is nearly finished visually revamping its biggest apps. The most prominent change is to Google Fi’s bottom bar with Material You’s tall design and pill-shaped indicators leveraged. Various buttons are now pills instead of rounded rectangles…
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Google researching hidden displays and interfaces for Ambient Computing

April 22, 2022
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 the 2020 Nest Thermostat with its mirror-finish screen. Google Research today detailed its work on these “Hidden Interfaces…
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