Alex Spiro, Elon Musk’s lawyer, sent a letter to the SEC on behalf of Musk and Tesla arguing that the agency is “harassing” them and failed to transfer money to Tesla shareholders.
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the SEC
Musk and the SEC have had a few run-ins with each other, rarely with a good outcome. Most famously, the SEC filed a lawsuit against Musk over his infamous “funding secured”…
Quick Charge Podcast: February 17, 2022
February 18, 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…
Tesla app update adds actionable notifications, charge stats, plans for annual FSD/connectivity subscriptions
February 18, 2022
Tesla has updated their smartphone app to version 4.6 adding some useful new features including actionable notifications and charging stats, and data-miners have found plans for an upcoming cheaper annual subscription to their Full Self-Driving and Premium Connectivity…
Wearable Smart Camera Can Detect Silent Voice Commands
February 18, 2022
Two researchers from Cornell University have created a wearable infrared smart camera that can detect voice commands even if the speaker isn’t making a sound by measuring the neck and face from under the chin.
The Usefulness of Silent Speech Detection
Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and…
Autonomous drone maker Skyfish has announced an official technical integration with Sony’s Alpha series mirrorless cameras which the company says will “deliver high-quality data capture and drone-enabled web based photogrammetry”
What is…
What’s In Your Camera Bag, Anete Lusina?
February 18, 2022
Anete Lusina has been a news, features, and reviews writer with PetaPixel for about a year and brings her talent for street and wedding photography to frame many of the stories you see here. As she focuses more on personal work and journalism, we thought it would be…
Samsung will reveal the Galaxy S22 prices for India tomorrow
February 18, 2022
While Samsung India posted the Galaxy S22 press releases on the 9th along with the rest of the world, the local branch of the company did not reveal the pricing for the new flagships. This will happen tomorrow, February 17, during an online event.
The start of sales date is the same as elsewhere, February 25 (Friday next week). What you can do today is pre-reserve a unit with a ₹2,000 down…
The Oppo Find X5 series will be unveiled on February 24
February 18, 2022
Oppo has sent out invites for the official unveiling of the new Find X5 series. You are invited too, virtually – the event will be livestreamed on February 24 at 11:00 GMT. You will be able to watch on Oppo.com.
While the event will introduce a new series, it’s not hard…
Samsung doesn’t include a charger with the Galaxy Tab S8 series; even the iPad does that
February 18, 2022
Over the past two years, chargers have disappeared from the box on most flagship smartphones. Now, the same is happening to tablets, as Samsung has stopped including a charger with the Galaxy Tab S8.
The Galaxy S21 series was Samsung’s first batch of smartphones to ship…
After widely rolling out iOS-style install indicators on the homescreen, Google now specifies what version of “Android OS” is required to install an app on the Play Store.
Going to the “App info” section (under “About this app”) of a Play Store listing today reveals that “Android OS” is now a line item alongside Version, Updated on, Downloads, Offered by, Released on, and App…
