Norway-headquartered energy giant Equinor has a new floating wind turbine foundation design, and it wants to launch it in a one-gigawatt (GW) Scottish offshore wind farm project.
If Equinor is successful in its bid for ScotWind, which is an offshore wind program that will lease areas of the seabed around Scotland for wind farm developments up to 10 GW, then it will use its new floating wind…
XPeng launches ‘Smart Driving Points’ beta, eerily similar to Tesla’s ‘Safety Score’
November 3, 2021
Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors has taken a play out of Tesla’s book and will implement a ‘Smart Driving Points’ scoring system to ensure future owners don’t abuse its self-driving technology. The safety monitoring system has launched in beta form ahead of a 2022…
UK’s NHS unveils new hydrogen-electric ambulances at COP26
November 3, 2021
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) unveiled a hydrogen-powered zero emission ambulance this week at Glasgow’s COP26 climate change conference. The vehicle will help the NHS reduce its contribution to UK road emissions and improve air quality and therefore health…
Tesla releases look into growing presence in Canada, where it builds ‘machines that build the machine’
November 3, 2021
Tesla has released a rare look into its growing presence in Canada, where the automaker builds some of the “machines that build the machine.”
The automaker has over 100,000 employees worldwide. Most of them are in the US, where Tesa is based, but the automaker is growing rapidly internationally.
Its efforts in China and Germany are most well known since it’s building and growing two…
COP26 Daily Briefing: 3 big things that happened on November 2
November 3, 2021
The COP26, aka the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021, is under way in Glasgow. Here’s Electrek‘s daily roundup of the key happenings at the world’s most important summit ever.
Tuesday, November 2
Global pledge to cut methane emissions
Leading an…
Activision Blizzard meets expectations in Q3 2021, but stock tanks thanks to two big game delays
November 3, 2021
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Activision Blizzard‘s net bookings of $1.88 billion in the third quarter ended September 30 matched expectations on Wall Street, with the net bookings…
Activision Blizzard delays Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV
November 3, 2021
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Activision Blizzard today revealed in its quarterly earnings report that it would be delaying the release of Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV.
The company was not specific on exactly how long the games would be delayed, but neither game will be released in 2022. It simply said that the…
Return of GoldenEye 007 and the best Nintendo controller | Last of the Nintendogs 018
November 3, 2021
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The best Nintendo podcast on the face of the planet is back. This time, the Last of the Nintendogs talk about Goldeneye 007, Pikmin Bloom, and more. Join…
Apple joins ‘First Movers Coalition’ in its goal to become a carbon-neutral company by 2030
November 3, 2021
Apple has joined the “First Movers Coalition,” a partnership between the World Economic Forum and the US Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate to maintain its commitment to becoming a carbon-neutral company by 2030.
In a Twitter post, Apple VP of…
Splash raises $20M to expand Roblox music-making tools
November 3, 2021
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Splash, the developer of the Roblox-based music-making creation kit of the same name, has announced it raised $20 million to expand its offerings.
The fundraise was co-led by Amazon’s Alexa Fund and Bitkraft Ventures. Other investors include Khosla Ventures and King River…
