Electric tractor manufacturer Solectrac announced it has delivered its first Compact Electric Tractor (CET) in Oahu, Hawaii. The fully-electric tractor was donated to the Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by musician Jack Johnson and his wife, Kim, that supports environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaii.
Solectrac was founded in Northern…
Americans are getting closer to a federal tax credit for electric bicycles, a proposal that could be similar in concept to the electric car and motorcycle tax incentives already on the books.
Back in February, a new bill was proposed known as the Electric Bicycle Incentive…
OnePlus Watch gets its first update with improved step tracking, app icons for notifications
April 21, 2021
The OnePlus Watch is a mess, but a lot of its flaws can be addressed through software updates. Today, OnePlus is releasing the first post-launch update for the OnePlus Watch, with better step tracking, notification improvements, and more.
Detailed on the OnePlus forums…
Hackers exploit SonicWall email security vulnerability
April 21, 2021
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(Reuters) — Hackers have targeted customers of California-based network services firm SonicWall via a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its email security product, the company and cybersecurity firm FireEye said Tuesday.
In a statement, SonicWall said that the vulnerability had been “exploited in the wild,”…
Verizon's Samsung Galaxy S10 gets April patch and new camera features with the latest update
April 21, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy S10 locked to Verizon’s network is receiving a new software update, which bumps up the Android security patch level on the smartphone to April 2021 and brings a couple of new camera features.
Here’s the small changelog of the new update:
Pro…
Weekly poll results: the new Nokias fail to excite, but a couple show a glimmer of potential
April 21, 2021
Last week’s poll shows that the six new Nokia models didn’t cause excitement – and maybe they weren’t supposed to, sometimes boring is good. The X-series have a chance chance to position themselves as phones that “just work” for three years, which is exactly what…
Weekly poll: Sony Xperia Mark III tries something different, but is it worth the price of admission?
April 21, 2021
When it comes to phones, Sony follows the beat of a different drummer – months after the first Snapdragon 888 flagships hit the market, the Japanese tech giant announced that it will release its own flagships in early summer.
You can’t rush perfection, they say, and Sony has given up on trying to dominate the smartphone market, anyway. Unlike LG, Sony managed to eke out a small profit off its…
Sony brought its smartphone lineup for an entire year in a single announcement this week and there are things we want to talk about.
So here go a few early thoughts on what we found interesting, what are the key points and what we think about them.
A true band of…
Realme announced the Q3 lineup will arrive this month, and we finally know the date. The series will be introduced on April 22, as confirmed by the company on Weibo.
One of the expected phones will be the Realme Q3 Pro, and it has already appeared on TENAA and Geekbench with…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 20, 2021
April 21, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
