The end of 2020 is nearing and Apple has just announced its 15 best apps and games and several categories. The “iPhone App of the Year” award goes to Wakeout – a platform helping all the people confined at their home stay active. Working and studying from home also brought an award – to Zoom for “iPad App of the Year”.
Wakeout • Zoom • Disney+
In the Games category…
Every year, the popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee — better known as MKBHD — shares its own blind smartphone camera test based on the choice of its followers on the web. MKBHD has just posted its 2020 blind camera test and surprisingly, iPhone 12 Pro Max lost to OnePlus…
Google AI is now piloting Loon's internet-beaming balloons
December 3, 2020
Alphabet’s Loon has shifted to a different type of navigation system for its internet-beaming balloons. Rather than relying on algorithms designed by humans, the balloons are using an artificial intelligence system Loon developed with Google AI over the last few years.
A…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 2, 2020
December 3, 2020
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…
Tesla and powerful German union prepare for a fight over Gigafactory Berlin workforce
December 3, 2020
Tesla’s effort to build a new Gigafactory near Berlin has had a few hiccups, but it seems to be going smoothly overall.
However, it looks like the automaker might have to battle with IG Metall, a powerful union in Germany.
Elon Musk came to Berlin earlier this week and…
Immortals: Fenyx Rising is now available on Google Stadia
December 3, 2020
Following the massive releases of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft has one more major release to close out 2020. Immortals: Fenyx Rising has just arrived on Google Stadia among other platforms.
Previously known as “Gods & Monsters,”…
BMW confirms higher-performance John Cooper Works electric Mini
December 3, 2020
Last month we reported on rumors that BMW had greenlit development of a high-performance “GP” version of the electric Mini. Today BMW announced that the car is indeed being worked on, but it will be designated as a “John Cooper Works” model, a name reserved for the brand’s highest-performance, track-ready vehicles.
We didn’t get any specific information, other than the fact that…
Bug causing ‘new Google Assistant’ functionality, UI to disappear for some Pixel 5/4 owners
December 3, 2020
The new Assistant consists of a transparent, compact UI and faster responses thanks to on-device processing. A strange bug this evening is responsible for the new Google Assistant disappearing from some Pixel 4, 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 phones.
Over the past few hours, Google’s…
WASHINGTON — The Army wants its Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) Gray Eagles to have synthetic aperture radars, moving target indicators, electronic intelligence and communications intelligence capability as well as air-launched effects and radar warning receivers…
Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 888 SoC with 3 ISPs capable of 8K video, 120fps still shooting, 960fps slo-mo and more
December 3, 2020
Today, Qualcomm revealed details of the Snapdragon 888, its next-generation flagship mobile chipset, showing what kind of features, functionality and performance we can expect to see in flagship Android mobile devices in the coming year.
The Snapdragon 888 is a System on a Chip (SoC) that consists of multiple processors atop a single substrate. These include multiple CPU and GPU cores, as well as…
