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European planemaker Airbus has announced a partnership with French carmaker Renault to develop a new generation of electric batteries for cars and planes. Engineering teams from both companies will join forces to mature technologies related to energy storage, one of the main roadblocks for the development of long-range electric vehicles, Airbus said in a statement. … Read more
Tech giant Google has announced that it has started to roll out refunds for Stadia hardware which were purchased from the Google Store. According to an email sent to customers, the hardware refunds will be processed within two weeks. As per the tech giant’s Stadia shutdown FAQ page, purchases of the Stadia controller, the Founder’s … Read more
Google Maps is reportedly facing an issue with the voice search feature on CarPlay, a smartphone integration system that allows users to use and see a selection of iPhone-based applications through the car’s dashboard. Several Reddit users have reported the strange issue, mentioning that the feature is only working after multiple attempts, according to 9To5Google. … Read more
Iran has signed a Memorandum of Understanding valued at $300 million with Russia for car exports to the country, semi-official Fars news agency reported. Russia is one of the customers of Iranian automobiles, Fars quoted Mohammadreza Najafi-Manesh, President of the Association of Homogeneous Powertrain Industries and Parts Manufacturers, as saying on Monday. Read Also Najafi-Manesh … Read more
After a few users reported that they were not able to block accounts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that a “slight degradation of service” on the microblogging platform was caused by an old “3rd party tool” that has now been fixed. Musk tweeted: “Twitter experienced slight degradation of service today from an old 3rd party … Read more
WhatsApp rolls out contact cards sharing on Windows beta Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has started to roll out the ability to share contact cards on Windows beta. The new feature allows users to share contact cards within the same chat share sheet, reports WABetaInfo. The entry point “Contacts” will appear if the feature is already … Read more
Qualcomm has announced its next-generation top-of-the-line chipset for smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, succeeding the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets. The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset improves CPU and GPU performance with better efficiency. So far, only one smartphone has launched with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 – … Read more
Apple is reportedly close to signing a deal with “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” author Michael Lewis for exclusive streaming rights to his upcoming book on the FTX crash. Deadline reported that the author spent six months with the embattled entrepreneur, before the FTX crash. Lewis‘s book will follow former CEO Bankman-Fried, a man estimated … Read more
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that the micro-blogging platform has added 1.6 million daily active users in the last week. He tweeted: “Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high.” Popular YouTube content creator Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast commented on Musk‘s post, “I wonder what YouTube’s daily actives is”. Read Also … Read more
Microsoft‘s virtual keyboard application SwiftKey has unexpectedly made a comeback on iOS’s App Store. “Based on customer feedback, SwiftKey iOS has been relisted on the Apple App Store,” Microsoft’s Caitlin Roulston said in a statement. “Please visit Support.SwiftKey.com for more information,” Roulston added. Despite the comeback, SwiftKey’s latest update is still dated August 11, 2021. … Read more