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Tesla dashcam captures armed carjacking attempt and robber firing shot into electric car

TeslaCam, Tesla’s integrated dashcam system using Autopilot cameras, has captured an armed carjacking attempt during which the carjacker fired a shot into a Model 3 electric car. Draper Younce, a Navy sailor and Tesla Model 3 owner, was sitting in his car in Jacksonville, Florida, waiting to pick up a friend when an armed and masked man approached his vehicle, pointed a gun at him, and asked…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 10, 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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Canoo unveils fully-electric pickup truck set for 2023

Details of a fully-electric pickup truck from EV startup, Canoo ($GOEV) leaked today. The images and features were scheduled to be unveiled during the Motor Press Guild’s Virtual Media Day (VMD). This new truck is the third vehicle to sit upon the company’s proprietary multi-purpose platform. The new pickup truck is loaded with unique features and components that utilize every inch of that…
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MobileNews

Google Search stocks card gets modernized look on desktop web

Google offers a dedicated Finance portal that shows you news in addition to charts and other trend data. That said, most users make do with entering ticker symbols in Search to find the price of stocks, with Google recently revamping the desktop experience. Just like with…
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Chrome for Android now lets you preview a page before fully opening

The last major update to mobile Chrome introduced a grid layout for tabs and the ability to group them. A more minor Chrome addition on Android today lets you preview a page before fully opening it. The context menu that appears when long pressing links now has a “Preview page” option. Appearing between “Open in incognito tab” and “Copy link address,” tapping slides up a sheet for…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Optibus launches new AI platform to help cities plan transit routes

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Real-time transit can be a dilemma for municipalities that lack scalable infrastructure. Tasks like routing, timing, and asset management are tough to optimize without a system for moving the necessary pieces into place. And with the number of heavy-duty transit buses expected to surpass 57,700 in…
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