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Facebook Gaming: A Twitch-copycat hits Android first, and more tech news today
July 19, 2025
1. Facebook’s dedicated game streaming app now out, if you want
Last night, details emerged in a New York Times reportthat Facebook would launch a Twitch-copycaton Monday. And it happened as of about an hour ago, so you haven’t missed anything yet!
Why is Facebook Gaming an app?
Why not Apple?
2.Google looks like it will launch a Google Pay smart debit card, with leaked pics now out (Android Authority).
3.POCO F2 could launch globally as soon as next month(Android Authority).
4.Flagships aren’t driving smartphone innovation anymore(Android Authority).
Apple leaks:New, cheaper AirPods could be ready to launch next month, while ananonymous-but-accurate long-view leaker has Apple insights for the future: iPad Air with under-the-screen Touch ID, ARM-based 12-Inch MacBook are coming, an Apple-designed game controller in 2021, and more (MacRumors).
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have their first post-Facebook product:Rt.live, a tracker of whether the coronavirus is spreading or slowing in each US state (rt.live)
7.Australia will compel Facebook and Google to pay media companies for content, via mandatory code of conduct following lack of progress during voluntary code of conduct efforts (Mashable).
8.FBI sees cybercrime reports increase fourfold during COVID-19 outbreak(Engadget). On that note: “Please stop buying that foldable phone from Pablo Escobar’s brother” (PCMag).
9.What’s this Clubhouse app being talked about so much?a) It’s not the product management app also called Clubhouse b) No, I don’t have an invite (TechCrunch).
10.Here’s what you do with two-thirds of the world’s jets when they can’t fly: 16,000 jets need to be parked. (Funnily enough, $1,000 a day for airport parking is in the ballpark of what it costs for a car…) (Bloomberg).
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