News in Brief
VW: No rush to decide on new European battery plants
REUTTERS – Volkswagen's battery needs are covered until 2028 by its three confirmed factories in Europe – the Salzgitter plant in Germany, Northvolt's plant in Sweden and a planned plant in Valencia, board member Thomas Schmall said on Monday.
The carmaker is still targeting 240 gigawatt hours of battery cell production capacity in Europe but could do this with fewer than the originally planned six plants, Schmall said.
Caught
red-handed: Samsung's moon fraud
ghacks.ne – Controversy on Samsung's "fake" Space Zoom feature is brought to light once again after a user's post on Reddit.
Samsung has launched the Space Zoom technology with the S20 model. It lets you take impressive and precise photos of the moon with a camera sensor that supports up to 100x zoom. However, the controversies about it never ended. Some users and articles from the past claimed Samsung's Space Zoom technology doesn't really take explicit photos of the moon, but it artificially enhances the image to take realistic photos.
The Reddit user posted a detailed examination on Space Zoom, giving examples and proof of why they think Samsung is "tricking" people with false advertising. The user mentioned that they always doubted Space Zoom's authenticity as it appears too perfect. "While these images are not necessarily outright fabrications, neither are they entirely genuine," they added.