In the latest news released as part of its impact report, Tesla claims that its battery packs lose only about 10% of their energy capacity after 200,000 miles.
Battery degradation, which represents the loss in capacity and range over time with increasing mileage, is one of the biggest concerns of new electric vehicle buyers.
It’s also an important part of the equation to make electric cars…
Android’s Find My Device network preps to crowdsource locating lost phones, secure vehicle data
August 12, 2021
Google is preparing to upgrade its “Find My Device” system to use other Androids to anonymously find your lost phone, as well as gain the ability to protect data on a lost vehicle.
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Levion Software’s free Photo Map app for Android shows photos stored on device or in multiple cloud storage platforms and illustrates them on a world map so users never lose track of where and when their images were taken.
As smartphones get better and more powerful…
The Digital Picture has published an in-depth in-body image stabilization (IBIS) test that compared the performance of the Canon EOS R5 and the Sony Alpha 1. In many cases, Canon’s EOS R5 showed a 1/3 to 2/3 stop advantage over Sony’s flagship.
The camera and lens review website recently published a detailed IBIS test that compared the two mirrorless cameras, but just one day after that was…
Google provides a more detailed look at Nest Cam with floodlight, Doorbell set-up [Video]
August 12, 2021
The new Nest Cam (battery) and Doorbell (battery) will launch on August 24 in several countries, and ahead of that Google has released videos showing the set-up process. We also get to see more of the Nest Cam with floodlight variant.
At a high-level, you set up the new…
Galaxy Z Fold 3 uses the tablet version of more Android apps including Google Chrome [Gallery]
August 12, 2021
The Galaxy Z Fold 3 makes a lot of physical improvements over its predecessor despite, on the whole, being a relatively minor upgrade. However, it also makes some tweaks to the software with the Fold 3 to show the tablet version of more Android apps.
One of the complaints…
Google Camera points to 50MP Samsung sensor on Pixel 6
August 12, 2021
The latest version of the Google Camera app suggests that the Pixel 6 series will use a 50 megapixel sensor made by Samsung.
Android 12 Beta 4 released earlier today, and with it, the Google Camera app was bumped to version 8.3.252. While nothing changed on the surface, some important changes were made under the hood.
Android community member and renowned Google Camera modder Cstark27 took a…
How to preorder the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3
August 12, 2021
Like in previous years, Samsung used its latest Galaxy Unpacked event to announce a slew of new devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3. The two smartphones are already available for preorder starting at $1,799.99 and $999.99, respectively, and will launch…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above
Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater?
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet…
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit
Along with collecting a sample from the Bennu’s surface, the spacecraft provided precision data to better predict the near-Earth object’s orbit around the Sun.
In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral…
