In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
In 2020, due to the pandemic, US energy emissions fell to the lowest level since 1983.
Belfast, Maine, sees 7 megawatts of community solar launch for Central Maine Power customers.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so…
Huawei’s head of autonomous driving lost his job after claiming Tesla vehicles are killing people
July 28, 2021
Su Qing, the head of autonomous driving at Huawei, has been removed from his position after making some controversial comments about Tesla — going as far as claiming that Tesla vehicles are killing people.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference earlier this…
Hyundai Ioniq 6 plus Pony sneak peek [video]
July 28, 2021
In DK Kim’s first report from Korea, he gets a sneak peek at Hyundai’s incredible Ioniq 6, the production version of the Hyundai Prophecy Concept that was revealed in 2020.
[This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek.]
Hyundai Ioniq…
A team at University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new material that could potentially help lower the production costs of solid state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs. The new material, lithium zirconium chloride, offers a reduced material cost and necessary performance, all while remaining stable.
Solid state batteries have become a…
Favorite Nintendo 64 games and reassessing Metroid: Other M | Last of the Nintendogs 004
July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
On this episode of Last of the Nintendogs, the crew talks about their favorite Nintendo 64 games. And the hype for Metroid: Dread has GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb going back to try Metroid: Other…
Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division, had a record quarter, but the market doesn’t seem to care much due to how small it is in relation to its automotive business.
CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla Energy is becoming a distributed global utility, and it could…
Bobby Kotick apologizes for ‘tone deaf’ response to sex discrimination charges at Activision Blizzard
July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick apologized for the “tone deaf” company response to allegations of sex discrimination at the big video game publisher.
In a statement to all employees, Kotick said that he appreciated the courage of all of the employees who have come forward with their own complaints in the wake…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles, California, today announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Qualcomm…
Can you teach AI common sense?
July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Even before they speak their first words, human babies develop mental models about objects and people. This is one of the key capabilities that allows us humans to learn to live socially and…
After introducing the Replies function last fall, Discord is now launching a new Threads feature to keep the conversation more organized in big channels.
Threads are available on multiple platforms, like iMessage, Slack, and Twitter, but if by any chance you don’t use these platforms, here’s how Discord describes it:
“A Thread is a quick way to branch a conversation off of a channel’s…
