Tomorrow, the first permanent Google retail store opens its doors to the public in a project that the company has been working toward since 2016. Since there’s only one — with the company steadfastly not commenting on whether there will be more, here’s a tour of the site in New York.
The lineage of this store directly dates back to pop-up and holiday experiences that Google experimented…
Besides astrophotography time lapse, the key addition from June’s Pixel Feature Drop is the Google Photos Locked Folder that was first announced at I/O. It’s now beginning to roll out via a server-side update.
Update 6/16: As of the start of this week, Google has…
Google Workspace branding comes to Gmail on the web
June 16, 2021
On Monday, Google made Workspace available “for everyone” with free, personal accounts able to turn on the integrated Gmail experience with Chat and Rooms — soon to be called Spaces. Alongside that, Google Workspace branding now appears on the Gmail web client.
When…
Elon Musk ponders Tesla making a home HVAC, may even advertise car air purification system
June 16, 2021
Elon Musk is still considering Tesla getting into the home HVAC business to leverage the work it has done on the HVAC system in its vehicles, which Musk is so proud of that he considers breaking his no-advertising rule.
Tesla has been putting a lot of effort to improve the air quality inside its electric cars, and it went as far as integrating a HEPA filter into its HVAC system inside some of…
PUBG maker Krafton will raise $5B in public offering
June 16, 2021
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Krafton, the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, or the battle royale shooter game known as PUBG, plans to raise $5 billion in a public offering.
Bloomberg reported that South Korea-based…
According to a report from LetsGoDigital, the Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi has patented three new smartphone designs with huge camera arrays developed in a collaboration with Samsung.
The three new patents were filed by Xiaomi Mobile Software in March of this year…
Within a few months of each other at the beginning of 2021, both Sony and Sigma announced 35mm f/1.4 lenses for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras. They were just begging for a comparison to be made.
This is not the first foray into the 35mm f/1.4 landscape for either company. Sony had the Distagon 35mm f/1.4 ZA available for full-frame mirrorless cameras since 2015. On the other hand, the Sigma 35mm…
In a Tweet earlier today, autonomous rideshare company Cruise, announced it has secured a multi-year credit line of $5 billion from GM financial, to help purchase thousands of Origin vehicles. This new credit line will give Cruise $10 billion in total capital to help roll…
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Nintendo sped off toward the second half of 2021 today with its E3 2021 Direct presentation. During that media briefing, the company revealed a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character, a…
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Chip Moore and Dylan Takeyama and came up with a concept for a turn-based strategy-RPG while in college. But Moore was an economics major; he wasn’t in programming or anything like that. So they turned to GameMaker and formed a team, Sword & Axe. They launched a successful Kickstarter and found a publisher, Freedom…
