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The 40 mph Ristretto electric bike puts a fresh spin on powerful mid-drive e-bikes

While new e-bike launches are fairly common these days, powerful mid-drive electric mopeds are still a rarity. That makes the new Ristretto e-bike all the more interesting. It isn’t your typical electric moped, with its large 26″ diameter wheels and a more traditional bicycle-style frame. It also goes its own way on the saddle, which appears to have been swapped for a library book…
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Tesla updates Powerwall with better Energy Plan, Virtual Power Plant integration and more

Tesla has released a new software update for Powerwall with better integration with Tesla’s Energy Plan and Virtual Power Plant, as well as a few more features. Tesla is known for introducing an extensive use of over-the-air software updates in vehicles, but the automaker is actually using the software updates to improve its other products too, like Powerwall. We got a good example today with…
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Quick Charge Podcast: May 24, 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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Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub

Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub. Google has told us that as of today, an update is beginning to roll out to owners of the first-generation Nest Hub, first released in 2018. For all intents and purposes, this update will not change any of the functionality of the Nest Hub…
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Samsung mocks iPhone 12 Pro Max with three new ads [Video]

In three new short videos, Samsung promotes its Galaxy S21 Ultra over the iPhone 12 Pro Max in the campaign, “Your phone upgrade shouldn’t be a downgrade.” Of course, this is not the first time Samsung has mocked the iPhone in its advertisements. These ads mainly…
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iOS 14.6 is now available, here’s why you should update

Apple has officially released iOS 14.6 to the general public. This update comes as iOS 14 beta testing begins to wind down ahead of iOS 15 being introduced next month. Here’s everything new with iOS 14.6 that should make you update your iPhone now. Podcasts subscriptions for channels and individual shows launch with iOS 14.6 iOS 14.6 lays the groundwork for Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, which…
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