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Tesla starts offering free Powerwalls to people with big price increases on solar roof

Tesla is starting to offer free Powerwalls to people who received big price increases on solar roof projects that were already under contracts. Last month, we reported that Tesla is drastically increasing the price of its solar roof tiles by as much as 50% based on an extremely inconsistent new “complexity factor.” Even with the lowest complexity factor, the average quote price went up…
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Quick Charge Podcast: April 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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'A Year in Photos' documentary covers winning imagery from Sony World Photography Awards

The annual Sony World Photography Awards is one of the world’s most reputable competitions for creatives. DPReview makes it a point to cover every announcement. Over the course of the past year, over 330,000 images were submitted to its myriad of contests covering contemporary events and issues. A documentary, produced by Chocolate Films, showcasing the winning images, as well as the stories…
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Exclusive Photos Inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

It’s been nearly 10 years since I first visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was a great experience for me. I could finally see the place I’d previously only known from books and TV and the tart taste of the Lugol’s iodine I had to drink a few days after the disaster. After many visits to the plant, I was finally even allowed to enter the damaged Reactor 4 and see the notorious…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Watch3 receive new updates improving Wi-Fi

Samsung has started sending out a new update for two of its wearables – the original Galaxy Watch from 2018, as well as the Galaxy Watch3 from last year. It’s nice to see the older model receiving the new software at exactly the same time as its successor. The new build is R80xXXU1FUD1 for the Galaxy Watch, and R84xXXU1BUD1 for the Galaxy Watch3. In both cases the lowercase…
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