In the morning hours of June 10th, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse greeted sky observers in the northeast United States, northern Canada, Europe, northern Asia, Russia and Greenland. While most photographers captured single photos of the eclipse, Göran Strand decided to show the entirety of the rare eclipse from his backyard in Östersund, Sweden.
Using 50,000 still images that equaled over…
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Facebook today introduced TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo from just a single word. The company claims that TextStyleBrush, which can edit and replace…
Latest Apple Arcade games for iPhone, Mac, Apple TV [New for June 11: Legends of Kingdom Rush]
June 11, 2021
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 180 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.
June 11: a new RPG has launched called Legends of Kindom…
Apple Tower Theatre opens June 24 in Los Angeles. Let’s celebrate the grand opening of Downtown L.A.’s first Apple Store and the premiere of a significant historic restoration project years in the making.
We’re inviting you to share your best L.A. photos shot on iPhone. If you live in Los Angeles and can do so safely, get out and photograph the places and people close to your heart. What…
The Weather app is attracting quite a bit of attention with this year’s release of iOS 15. It’s getting an all-new design, new real-time notifications, and more. Head below as we take a closer look at the all-new Weather app in iOS 15 including maps, design, and more.
After adding up the figures, the Google Calculator app has now surpassed the 1 billion download milestone over on the Play Store.
Given that the Calculator app comes pre-installed on millions of devices each and every year, it’s no surprise that this is one Google app to…
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.
Once live on your device, you’ll get up a “Set up Locked Folder” notification from the Google Photos app. Tapping will start the set-up process with the company providing an…
Microlino electric bubble car shows off latest prototype with slick-looking interior, folding roof
June 11, 2021
The Microlino 2.0, an electric bubble car with a decidedly BMW Isetta-style design, has entered its final phase of development. The company is now showing off a nearly production-ready third prototype.
The latest prototype includes some major new updates that we haven’t…
We’re still digesting last night’s events here at the Electrek newsroom, and Fred did a great writeup of what’s new last night, but here are our initial reactions. Spoiler alert, we’re serious Plaid fans and will have more to say on it during this afternoon’s…
Google Chrome no longer plans to hide full URLs because it doesn’t help security after all
June 11, 2021
For the past three years or so, Google has been working on a project behind the scenes with the goal to hide full URLs in the address bar. Now, Google is pulling the plug on its Chrome experiment and will not hide URLs.
Google’s experiments with hiding the URL bar have gone through a few iterations, but the biggest move came in Chrome 86 where Google actively hid the full URL in the omnibox.
