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Tesla plans to enter Texas deregulated energy market, starts with massive 250 MW battery

August 27, 2021
Tesla has filed to enter Texas’s deregulated energy market and become an official electricity retailer. For a change, the company sees an opportunity not to disrupt but to fix and stabilize the market. After winter storms earlier this year, the Texas grid experienced widespread blackouts, leading to more than a hundred deaths and billions in costs. Many experts blamed Texas’s mostly…
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Elon Musk: ‘Bezos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’

August 27, 2021
Elon Musk has criticized fellow centibillionaire and space cowboy Jeff Bezos for filing lawsuits against the former’s aerospace company SpaceX. Earlier this month, Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin sued NASA after it lost a critical government contract to put astronauts on the Moon to SpaceX. This has had the effect of delaying SpaceX’s own work on the project. And now, this week, Amazon has…
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Camera+ 2 Mobile App Maker Launches Camera+ Studio for Mac

August 27, 2021
Mobile photo editing app developer LateNiteSoft — known for the mobile app Camera+ 2 — has launched the Camera+ Studio application for Apple computers. The company says that the desktop version brings many of the more popular tools from the mobile app to the Mac along…
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Pixel Live Wallpaper update enables Material You Dynamic Color theming on Android 12

August 27, 2021
Wallpaper-based theming is the main highlight of Android 12 and Material You. However, Dynamic Color did not initially work with the Pixel Live Wallpaper collection/category, and an app update rolling out this week remedies that. At launch, Dynamic Color was only able to pull color from static backgrounds. The Pixel’s delightful collection of live wallpapers were excluded from theming, with…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 26, 2021

August 27, 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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Mass-produceable Candela C-8 flying hydrofoil electric boat debuts in ‘iPhone moment for boats’

August 27, 2021
Candela has just revealed its latest hydrofoil electric boat, the Candela C-8. With the high-tech, ultra-premium electric boat designed for mass production, the company is calling this “an iPhone moment for the boat industry.” Candela’s first flying electric boat, the C-7, debuted last year as a radical new option in the boating industry. It flew above the water on hydrofoils, allowing it…
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