Charging has always been a focus for OnePlus, with the brand usually having the fastest wired charging speeds of any smartphone sold in the US. This year, the OnePlus 10 Pro ups the ante with 80W charging, but that’s limited to 65W in the United States.
When it launched in China earlier this year, the OnePlus 10 Pro introduced 80W charging to the series for the first time, an upgrade from the…
Google Play Protect marks discontinued YouTube Vanced Manager as ‘harmful,’ prompts uninstall
March 29, 2022
The feature-adding and ad-blocking YouTube Vanced app was discontinued earlier this month, but the app’s developers said it would continue to work until changes to YouTube’s API killed it off for good. Now, those with the app still installed are seeing Google Play…
A report today says that ‘Russian Google’ Yandex is sending data harvested from millions of iOS app users to Russia – whether or not you use the company’s apps. Laws there could compel the company to make the data available to the Russian government.
Your data can be…
NIU’s fastest and most powerful electric scooter yet arrives in Europe, headed to US soon
March 29, 2022
I was fortunate enough to be in the front row when NIU unveiled its new MQiGT EVO electric scooter at the 2021 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show last November. Now the leading smart electric scooter company has begun making deliveries in Europe, with other markets also set to soon receive the fast and powerful electric scooter.
The NIU MQiGT EVO electric scooter has begun hitting the road in Europe…
London announced that it is providing funding to deploy a fleet of Tesla Model 3 vehicles through a vehicle subscription service to be available for private hire drivers such as Uber.
Startup Breathe operates in the rapidly growing space of “vehicle-as-a-service” by…
Venus Optics Laowa 45mm F0.95 Sample Gallery
March 29, 2022
DPReview news editor Gannon Burgett has spent the past week with Venus Optics’ Laowa 45mm F0.95 Argus lens attached to his Canon EOS R. Above is a gallery of images, including Raw, he captured around Lansing, Michigan. Check out the photographs to see how it performs…
How to export a Google Doc to PDF in Google Drive
March 29, 2022
Google Docs has been a go-to product for many for quite a long time. Google Drive can handle complex text documents, as well as easy and simple tasks. One of those is exporting text documents as PDFs. Here’s how to export PDFs in Google Docs.
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Why would I need to export a PDF?
How to export a PDF file in Google Docs
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In Drive on Android and iOS
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In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with the iPhone app now removed from the App Store.
Update 3/29: Hangouts for…
Apple patent reveals next-generation force sensors for Apple Watch, MacBook, and iPhone
March 29, 2022
Except for the trackpad on MacBooks, Apple has all but discontinued Force Touch (also known as 3D Touch) technology from its products. However, it seems that the company still has plans to somehow bring Force Touch back, as new patents reveal next-generation force sensors…
Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel says EV batteries should last about 15 years
March 29, 2022
JB Straubel, Tesla’s longtime Chief Technology Officer, has given some insight into how long he believes electric vehicle batteries should last — about 15 years. This is critical for Straubel’s new business.
One of the most popular questions when it comes to electric vehicles is, “How long does the battery last?” And, I am not talking about the range here. How long, how many miles or…