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The PC market is alive and well, and more tech news you need to know
July 28, 2025
1. There’s life in the ol’ PC just yet!
The PC market grew by a range somewhere between 2.3% and 4.8% in Q4 2019, according to research firmsGartnerandIDC, which both released positive (and only slightly conflicting) news.
This matters, because it marks thefirst full year of growth in the PC categoryfor the first time since 2011. Here’s how that looks (before 2019’s stats) according to Gartner, viaStatista:
Windows 7 upgrades?
Dual/folding devices, and 5G:
2.Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra specs leak, but is it a real device?(Android Authority).
- The era of pre-announcing smartphone features seems to be here, nowOnePlus says the OnePlus 8 will have a “120Hz Fluid Display”, just like the Samsung S20 (Android Authority).
4.Apple said it is helping the Pensacola shooting investigation, but won’t unlock the shooter’s iPhones: “We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance in the Pensacola investigation” (BuzzFeed).Also, Microsoft CEO says encryption backdoors are a ‘terrible idea’(The Verge).
5.Apple might be developing a ‘Pro Mode’ to speed up Macbooks(9to5Mac).
- The European Parliament is looking atforcing companies to use a common charger“for all mobile phones”. Happily, the industry is already consolidating around USB-C, including iPhones either this year or next, so …it’ll happen anyway? (europarl.europa.eu).
7.How digital sleuths unraveled the mystery of Iran’s plane crash(Wired).
8.Visa is buying Plaid, a financial services API startup that powers much of new fintech startups backends like Venmo: a cool $5.3 billion changes hands (TechCrunch).
9.These are the most frequently checked-out books in the history of the New York Public Library(NPR).
10.Dr. Phil Metzger with some detailed knowledge about moon dust, rocks, and how we simulate the moon’s environment on earth with coarse quartz sand containing no dust (Twitter).
- “What can never be filmed or photographed, thus never observed by humans?” (r/askreddit). “We’ve never actually seen the core of our own planet and I doubt we will ever actually see it,” is, sadly, a pretty good answer.
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