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A date for the next Galaxy Unpacked and Note 20, and more tech news today
July 14, 2025
1. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: August 5
It’s official:Samsung has announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, at 10AM ET, a fully virtual and streamed event, of course, which will see a different approach to Samsung’s usual stadium-like events held in Brooklyn, New York City, and Berlin before that.
What to expect:
Keeping up:
What’s stopping Spotify from being the perfect music app? ASpotify cloud music locker, for uploading your own tracks. Couldn’t agree more with this opinion (Android Authority).
There’s a new gaming phone on the horizon from Lenovo, called the Lenovo Legion.Apparent new benchmark leaks reveal it’s very fast, thanks to the supposed and as-yet-non-existent Snapdragon 865 Plus SoC and its GPU benefits. Hmm! (notebookcheck.net).
4.Walmart Plus may launch in July to compete with Amazon Prime: $98 yearly, unlimited same-day grocery delivery, fuel discounts, and potentially a ‘Scan & Go service’ that would allow checkouts in Walmart stores without waiting in line (Android Authority). Also:Uber launches grocery deliveryin Latin America, Canada with the US to follow (Reuters).
5.Apple is working on QR Code paymentsfor Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals (9to5Mac).
Ad boycott leaders saymeeting with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg was ‘a disappointment’, and the boycott, now with 800 companies on board, will continue (Engadget). Also: ‘Too little, too late’:Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch until ‘late fall’(TechCrunch).
Alphabet’s Loon balloonsprovide their first commercial internet service in Kenya: 35 hot air balloons will provide 4G LTE at about a 20km elevation. Loon says June testing saw speeds of 18.9Mbps down, 4.74Mbps up, latency of 19ms (Loon).
8.The rise and fall of Adobe Flash: “Before Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it” (Ars Technica).
“About 8 months ago, I got a handwritten letter through the mail on a blank piece of paper with one sentence: “File a FOIA with USPS for [Long Life Vehicles] truck fires.” 4,000 pages of documents later, here’s the story:”Hundreds of USPS mail trucks are spontaneously catching fire, seemingly because they’re 30-years-old and the US Post has no money to replace them (Vice).
Thenext SpaceX launch of Starlink satelliteshappens today just before midday ET.Live stream on YouTube(spaceflightnow.com).
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