Tesla’s Supercharger stations that are open to non-Tesla electric vehicles are deemed “illegal” in Germany due to the lack of kWh counter on the units. Electrek reports: Handelsblatt reports that Tesla’s Superchargers are considered “illegal” because they don’t have a visible kWh counter at the stations (translated from German): “Every Read more…
Stephen Flavall makes his living by playing video games to an audience of thousands on Twitch. When he first started streaming, he only had about fifteen people at a time watching him. He liked how he could engage with a small community, cracking jokes while people cheered him on. Unfortunately, Read more…
The leaders of Canada and Germany will sign a multibillion-dollar green energy agreement this month “that could prove pivotal to Canada’s nascent hydrogen industry,” reports CTV News: The German government on Friday issued a statement confirming the agreement will be signed August 23 in Stephenville, where a Newfoundland-based company plans Read more…
Official Xbox One sales have largely been a mystery, but now Microsoft is finally admitting the obvious: the PS4 outsold the Xbox One — by a lot. Microsoft stopped reporting its Xbox One sales figures at the beginning of its 2016 financial year, focusing instead on Xbox Live numbers. The Read more…
“Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver,” reports Bloomberg. The Verge writes that Apple “could eventually bring ads to more of the apps that come pre-installed on your iPhone and other Apple devices, including Maps, Read more…
A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three Read more…
Alphabet’s “urban innovation” arm Sidewalk Labs planned to build a model “smart city” along a 12-acre patch of Toronto waterfront known as Quayside. But they abandoned the project in 2020, points out MIT’s Technology Review, “at the tail end of years of public controversy over its $900 million vision for Read more…