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Apple to buy over $50 million worth of batteries from Tesla for new energy storage project

April 1, 2021
Apple announced a massive new energy storage project in California, and we learned that Tesla will supply its Megapack battery systems for the project. In a press release yesterday, Apple announced that it is building a massive new 240 MWh energy storage project at its solar farm in Northern California: “Apple is constructing one of the largest battery projects in the country, California…
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Google Lens translate chip for Recent Apps screen shows up on Android 12 w/ new design

April 1, 2021
Even after trawling through almost all aspects of the recent Android 12 Developer Preview, things slip the net. One of those looks to be the long-overdue addition of a Google Lens translate option within the Android recent apps panel. If you cast your mind back, this feature was touted as far back as July 2019 during the Android 10 preview phase. The original Android Q solution provided a…
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Eight Photoshop Visual Pranks To Try on April Fools’ Day

April 1, 2021
Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day, and with such a bummer of a year leading up to this point (and things are only now just starting to look better in a few places), everyone could use some laughs. To that end, photographer Richard Wakefield shows how you can create eight visual jokes in Photoshop. Some people have mixed feelings about April Fools’ Day jokes, but Wakefield believes you shouldn’t…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 31, 2021

April 1, 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 Home, Nest speakers in Preview Program get new Casting sound

April 1, 2021
At the start of the year, the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max started playing a new sound following a successful Casting connection, and that updated chime is now appearing on Google Home and Nest speakers. This new Casting sound is rolling out with Cast firmware version 1.54 to speakers enrolled in the Preview Program — current stable is 1.50. The previous confirmatory chime/beep had been in place…
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