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Valais, Switzerland pulls plug on hybrid incentives, should the rest of the world follow?

January 14, 2022
Citing a report which found hybrid cars offered negligible emissions and fuel consumption advantages when tested on Switzerland’s Alpine roads, one Swiss region has decided to “pull the plug” on subsidies – even calling the claims of hybrids’ environmental advantages a “con.” The southern Swiss canton of Valais (Wallis, in German) commissioned a study by Impact Living, a project…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 13, 2022

January 14, 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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NASA’s Spitzer Illuminates Exoplanets in Astronomical Society Briefing

January 14, 2022
. NASA’s Spitzer Illuminates Exoplanets in Astronomical Society Briefing The infrared observatory may help answer questions about planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, including how they form and what drives weather in their atmospheres. Two new studies using data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shed light on giant exoplanets…
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Google Meet gets live translated captions [Update: Exits beta]

January 14, 2022
Back in 2019, Google introduced real-time video call transcriptions and has since added support for more languages. The next step sees Google Meet beta test live translated captions.  Update 1/13/22: Google Meet’s live translated captions capability is now out of beta for calls organized by the following Workspace editions: Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, the Teaching and…
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Google Meet ‘Companion Mode’ rolling out on the web, starting with Nest Hub Max calls

January 14, 2022
Back in June, Google previewed a second screen experience for video conferencing. Google Meet’s Companion Mode is now beginning to roll out “when joining a meeting using Google Meet hardware or the Nest Hub Max.” Companion Mode lets you text chat, hand raise, create/answer polls, screen share, and access host controls on another device (i.e. laptop) as you have a Google Meet call open on a…
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