Over the past few days, the online game Wordle has taken social media by storm, but the game is designed to be a web app. There is no official Wordle app for Android, so don’t fall for the clones invading the Play Store.
Wordle, a word-guessing game that’s exploded in popularity lately, is available only at one place – powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle. That’s the only official place to play…
Twitter testing new search bar on the Home tab of its iOS app
January 12, 2022
2022 has just begun and Twitter has already announced some new features for its iOS app. After an experimental new option to retweet a post with a video reaction, the social network is now testing a search bar in the Home tab of its iPhone app.
Currently, Twitter search…
Somewhere in a Venn diagram that includes Turkish bath houses, refugee camps, and outdoor music festivals exists the American truck stop. In concept and execution, it’s a business model that has endured for decades – but the coming wave of electric semi trucks will…
Coal will make up 85% of electric generating capacity retirements in 2022 – Here’s why
January 12, 2022
US electricity generator operators have scheduled 14.9 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity to retire during 2022, and the vast majority of those scheduled retirements – 85% – are coal-fired power plants, reports the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) today.
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 11, 2022
January 12, 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…
Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that would allow users to customize the order in which photos appear on their profile pages. The grid customization feature was recently discovered through an analysis of the app’s code.
The feature was discovered by…
Humorous Photos of Dogs Catching Flying Treats
January 12, 2022
Christian Vieler is a German photographer who has built his career on shooting humorous photos of dogs catching treats.
In each of the photos, the dogs are frozen in time with various expressions on their faces while they lunge with jaws open at tasty snacks flying toward them.
How the Photos of Dogs Catching Treats Started
The 42-year-old Vieler had no formal education in photography.
NASA’s InSight Enters Safe Mode During Regional Mars Dust Storm
January 12, 2022
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NASA’s InSight Enters Safe Mode During Regional Mars Dust Storm
The lander has taken measures to conserve energy; engineers aim to return to normal operations next week.
NASA’s InSight lander is stable and sending health…
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Ubisoft announced today it’s bringing Assassin’s…
How Nintendo has failed us | Last of the Nintendogs 028
January 12, 2022
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Everyone is dropping their hot and beefy takes on Last of the Nintendogs this week. The community wrote in with the Nintendo games that most disappointed them, and that list…
