Following rumors circulating earlier this month, Hyundai Motor Group has officially signed an agreement with the state of Georgia to invest $5.5 billion in new facilities dedicated to EV and battery manufacturing. When complete, these new facilities will be Hyundai’s first EV-specific manufacturing on US soil and will produce a wide range of upcoming electric models.
One year ago, we covered…
Elon Musk announces that Tesla is building a ‘hardcore litigation department’ – Timing is strange
May 21, 2022
Elon Musk announced today that Tesla is building a “hardcore litigation department” to “directly initiate and execute lawsuits.” The timing of the effort is strange since it comes right after an allegation of sexual misconduct against the CEO.
Musk made the…
Boeing’s Starliner successfully docks to the International Space Station for the first time
May 21, 2022
This evening, Boeing’s new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, successfully docked itself to the International Space Station — demonstrating that the vehicle can potentially bring humans to the ISS in the future. It’s a crucial capability that Starliner has…
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When Zoom’s business boomed almost overnight in the early days of the pandemic, Michelle Dotson, head of sales enablement at the video conferencing leader, knew that preparing salespeople for every…
While plaudits flowed for the Galaxy S22 Ultra — and rightly so — the Galaxy S22+ might be the best of the latest Samsung lineup due to its mix of form and feature set. With that in mind, this is our long-term review of the Galaxy S22+.
It has been almost three months…
Bandcamp will keep in-app billing on Android for now, as Google & Epic battle it out [U]
May 21, 2022
Just last month, Epic Games announced that it would acquire the music platform Bandcamp. Now, Bandcamp is the latest reason Epic Games is taking legal action against Google, this time over the tech giant’s Android app billing crackdown.
This article was last updated on May…
In a bit of cross-promotion, PayPal is offering a $10 reward for making a purchase on Google Play through their payment service.
There are quite a few ways you can buy something through the Google Play Store, including the cards you’ve saved to Google Pay, Play Store gift cards, and of course PayPal. To encourage more people in the United States to connect PayPal to their Google Play payments…
Microsoft is now offering a new version of Windows Subsystem for Android, in testing, that runs all of your apps on the latest Android 12.1.
First launched earlier this year, the Windows Subsystem for Android lets you access many of the same Android apps you know and love…
Bandwidth: Shadow gets a ‘Power Upgrade’ as Sony confirms dates for new PlayStation Plus
May 21, 2022
The lesser-known cloud gaming service Shadow is this week getting a “Power Upgrade,” with a new subscription option that adds the power of an RTX 3070 GPU and more.
Bandwidth is 9to5Google’s weekly look at the cloud gaming market beyond Google’s own Stadia…
Xiaomi, one of the biggest phone manufacturers in China, wants to prevent APKs from being extracted from Android devices, but thankfully Google disagrees with the idea.
Over the years, the ease of extracting and sharing APK files (used to install apps) has been a significant benefit for the Android ecosystem. For example, if a recent update to an app causes major issues, you can go to a…
