Reverse Wireless Charging was one of the rumored features for iPhone 11 last year, but Apple allegedly removed it from the final version of the devices. Now, FCC filings for iPhone 12 have revealed that this year’s devices might have a functional reverse wireless charging system.
Following the iPhone 11 rumors in 2019, iFixit disassembled the new smartphones as usual and then discovered that…
BMW is going to unveil its Tesla-fighting BMW iNext next week
November 2, 2020
BMW confirmed that it plans to unveil the production version of its BMW iNext, an electric vehicle that the German automaker has previously described as its response to Tesla, next week.
Since the launch of the BMW i3, the German automaker has been taking things extremely…
Here’s what happened when a country let people trade in old cars for electric bikes, scooters
November 2, 2020
Believe it or not, a cash-for-clunkers plan helped get old and polluting cars off the road, replacing them with efficient and traffic-reducing personal electric vehicles like e-bikes and e-scooters.
Shocking, right?
Trading in old cars for new electric bikes
Perhaps it’s…
Today, we take a look at Tesla Powerhub, a lesser-known Tesla energy product to monitor and control energy assets at a large scale.
Tesla’s well-known energy products are the Powerwall, Powerpack, Megapack, solar panels and solar roof.
Earlier this year, we also learned of Autobidder, Tesla’s platform to autonomously monetize battery assets.
But this new product is not alone in Tesla’s…
Just in case you didn’t notice, the US election is next week, on Tuesday, November 3. We at Electrek ran a Climate Crisis Weekly roundup on October 10 with the headline, “Humanity’s future rests on American voters.” Someone on the subreddit r/JoeBiden declared…
Google Pixel 5 camera earns 120-point score from DxOMark
November 2, 2020
Despite the incredibly flawed and confusing nature of ranking cameras using a point-based system, the Google Pixel 5 has achieved a 120-point score from the defacto industry camera experts DxOMark — an 8-point bump over the Pixel 4 according to the French firm’s…
Tesla pushes new Full Self-Driving Beta update, Elon Musk says could slash interventions by a third
November 2, 2020
Tesla has started pushing a new software update under its Full Self-Driving Beta program and CEO Elon Musk says it could already cut driver interventions by a third.
It has been less than two weeks since Tesla has started pushing the first version of its “Full Self-Driving” feature in beta to some users.
As we previously reported, Tesla has already been collecting a large amount of data…
As a computing teaching tool or even as a nifty emulation station, the Raspberry Pi is a wonderful piece of kit that runs Linux. Thanks to work by devs, you can now get a version of Android 11 running on Raspberry Pi hardware.
Even though the Raspberry Pi uses effectively…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 31, 2020
November 2, 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…
OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition goes official with unnecessarily gigantic camera module
November 2, 2020
Ahead of the game’s delayed release in a few weeks, OnePlus has debuted a special tie-in edition of the OnePlus 8T to go with Cyberpunk 2077.
Going up for pre-order today in China, the Cyberpunk 2077 Edition OnePlus 8T is pretty much identical to the standard model on the spec sheet. It has a 6.55-inch 1080p 120Hz display, a Snapdragon 865 chip, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 4,500 mAh…
