Tesla has started production of the Model Y with a massive single-piece rear casting, according to a picture of a new unit of the electric SUV. It’s the automaker’s latest move into massive casting techniques.
Tesla and massive casting
In recent years, Tesla has focused on making bigger casting parts in order to build bigger parts of its vehicles in single pieces to facilitate…
Lordstown claims to now have received more than 100,000 pre-orders for its electric pickup truck ahead of the start of production later this year.
Lordstown Endurance electric pickup truck
Lordstown, an electric vehicle startup that spun out of Workhorse and GM’s sale of…
Tesla is losing one of its top manufacturing engineers to Redwood Materials, a new startup founded by Tesla co-founder and long-time CTO JB Straubel.
Tesla’s Head of Model S/X Production Line
Andy Hamilton, a 10-year veteran at Tesla and longtime manufacturing engineer…
TCL and Alcatel launching trio of Android tablets, including one w/ color E Ink competitor
January 12, 2021
Today, TCL is announcing a trio of Android tablets to be released over the next few months, including a model using a NXTPAPER display, their competitor to color E Ink.
By the spec sheet, the TCL TAB 10S and TCL NXTPAPER have a great deal in common. Both tablets run on Android 10, use a MediaTek MT8768 series chip, and offer as much as 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
The main thing that sets the…
TCL is one of the biggest names in TV right now thanks to super affordable hardware that, frankly, is really good. After bringing Android TV models to the US market in 2020, TCL has just announced that it will be adopting Google TV in 2021.
At CES 2021 today, TCL announced…
Stadia is set to make a couple of platform expansions in 2021, including LG’s WebOS as announced at CES 2021. In a further announcement, LG has clarified what TVs will be getting access to the Stadia app, and there’s both good news and bad news.
The good news? Stadia…
After debuting its wacky Wing phone in 2020, LG has been teasing its next Explorer Project device which has a rollable display. Now, at CES 2021, LG has dropped another teaser for the Rollable, this time confirming its name and showing it in action.
During LG’s CES 2021 presentation, the company cut to a very brief clip that shows a phone being held as its screen starts to shrink down. At the…
Back in November, Google announced an “early preview” of Assistant Driving Mode in the US. It has officially been “rolling out” since late last year, but most users have yet to receive it. The company today reiterated that the preview is coming.
Intended to replace…
WASHINGTON — To rebuild American sea power and face a growing Chinese threat, the U.S. Navy must get a larger share of the Defense Department’s budget, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee said Monday at the annual…
Google Chrome address bar may soon default to HTTPS
January 12, 2021
Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version.
For years now, HTTPS has steadily grown from being a way of feeling secure about a particular site into being the expected minimum for a website. It’s gotten to the point that instead of Chrome showing…
