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Google starts rolling out Play Store Material You redesign, but it only scratches the surface

October 10, 2021
Google’s Material You rollout continues with the Play Store over the last 24 hours but this redesign is not too visually encompassing yet, while availability is currently quite limited. The Play Store’s initial Material You redesign is limited to the four main homescreen feeds. It starts with a pill-shaped search bar that allows your profile avatar to slot in nicely. Just underneath…
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OnePlus 9RT, Buds Z2 will launch next week

October 10, 2021
While OnePlus has publicly said it wouldn’t make a OnePlus 9T this year, the company is now teasing the coming launch date of the OnePlus 9RT and its new earbuds too. Announced on Weibo, the OnePlus 9RT will see a launch date of October 13 in China. In that post, OnePlus…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: A fake electric Ferramborghini from China

October 10, 2021
Tech bro and manly compensation jokes aside, how cool would it be to have your own supercar parked in your garage? How many young boys didn’t grow up looking at Ferrari posters or have at least one Lamborghini in their Hotwheels car collection? I for one never thought I’d actually own one… at least until I found this work of art on Alibaba. Though the more I looked, the more things didn’t…
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Hands-on with the VW ID.4: The every-person’s electric SUV

October 10, 2021
As someone who’s owned and operated their fair share of EVs, I was looking forward to experiencing Volkswagen’s first truly mainstream electric vehicle, the . As a part of a #vwpartner collaboration with Volkswagen, I got the opportunity to drive the VW ID.4 for a few days. What I found was an SUV for the masses that is easy to adapt to if you’re coming from a traditional gas-powered…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 9, 2021

October 10, 2021
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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How to Create a Small World Photo in Photoshop

October 10, 2021
Want to create a “small world” or “tiny planet” image in which a landscape photo (often a panorama) is turned into what looks like a miniature planet? Here’s an easy-to-follow 2-minute tutorial that will teach you how to make one in Photoshop. Here are the…
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Latest Samsung Galaxy A52 update enables RAM Plus

October 10, 2021
While RAM Plus was prominently featured in the One UI 4.0 changelog, it is not actually part of Samsung’s Android 12 update package. Samsung has enabled it on several phones that still run Android 11, including the Galaxy Z Fold3, the Galaxy S21 series, the Galaxy M52 as well as two of the A52 series – the 5G model and the A52s 5G. Now the 4G model, the Galaxy A52, has also received RAM Plus…
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