Tokina’s atx-m 23mm F1.4 is one of two of the company’s new primes available for Fujifilm X-mount shooters. With a 35mm full-frame equivalent focal length, this lens is perfect for casual, candid, and street photography, even in low light.
Focus is snappy, accurate and near-silent when shooting at wider apertures. But the lens does occasionally hunt and can sometimes miss focus when…
The LG Velvet is also the company’s last mainstream premium smartphone, but even with the company pulling its resources from the smartphone business, updates are still rolling out. This week, Android 11 was spotted rolling out to the LG Velvet in the United…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 10, 2021
April 11, 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…
This week’s top stories: final Play Music update, Apple talks iMessage on Android, more
April 11, 2021
In this week’s top stories: Google Play Music gets one last update on Android, Apple explains why they haven’t brought iMessage to Android, “Pixel 5a 5G” confirmed by Google for later this year, and more.
Despite having been fully shut down for a few months, Google Play Music received a final update on Android this week. The biggest change is that you can now hide the app from your app…
Samsung’s biggest hit in the Galaxy S20 lineup was the more affordable S20 FE, and it seems a sequel is on its way. This weekend, we’re getting a first look at the Galaxy S21 FE.
There aren’t really any surprises with this year’s “Fan Edition” smartphone.
Tesla delivers insane number of electric cars in China
April 11, 2021
Tesla’s sales have surged in China in March helping the automaker achieved its new record delivery results, according to registration numbers.
Last week, Tesla released its Q1 2021 delivery results – confirming a record quarter of over 184,000 electric cars…
Camera Gear You Should Never Buy Used
April 10, 2021
I previously wrote an article on some of the gear that photographers can buy used and how I saved $15,000 doing so. It feels wrong for me to buy any new gear — like I’m burning money when doing so. That said, here are a few photography things that even bargain-hunters like me buy new.
If buying used is great, why buy anything new ever again? I agree, after I said that buying new gear is…
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After a 2019 research paper demonstrated that commercially available facial analysis tools fail to work for women with dark skin, AWS executives went on the attack. Instead of offering up…
While overall hate crime dipped in 2020, hate crime against Asians increased dramatically in a number of cities around the country. That trend has unfortunately continued into the early parts of 2021, most visibly manifesting itself with the killing of 8 people (six of whom…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: Is this the world’s cheapest electric motorcycle?
April 10, 2021
Motorcycle riders have their own unique risk-management calculations. And while everyone loves a good deal, I’m not sure how many riders will be signing up to go canyon carving on what might just be the cheapest electric motorcycle in the world.
Each week I dive deep into the abyss of Alibaba, the internet’s kitchen junk drawer, to find an interesting new electric vehicle at (usually)…
