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What a week: Apple Silicon, Xbox, PS5, vaccine(!?), and more
June 23, 2025
Stop press: Pfizer is saying its coronavirus vaccine trial is 90% effective. Here’s more on thatstunning Pfizer-COVID19 vaccine newsjust being announced (NY Times)
1. Apple’s biggest launch could start the biggest tech week since… 2007?
Here’s how this week looks, as what was once private at Apple, Microsoft, and Sony, finally comes out into the open:
- Report:Samsung beat Apple in the US marketfor the first time in three years in Q3 2020, with the deck stacked a little towards Samsung. Q4 should be interesting. (Android Authority).
- On that note:Why a Snapdragon 875 Lite makes perfect sense(Android Authority).
5.OnePlus 8 Pro revisited: The good and bad six months later (Android Authority).
6.OnePlus Buds Z review: Cheaper and better than the OnePlus Buds. Wait, cheaper and better? That never happens (Android Authority).
7. Sony launchesAirpeak drone businessto support ‘video creators’ (Engadget).
Apple suspends new (read: additional) business with key supplier Pegatronafter discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program(Bloomberg).
Virgin hyperloop hits an important milestone:The first human passenger test(The Verge).
Cory Doctorow gives an incredible breakdown ofHP’s ink-jet printer corporation evil. Oh, you know ink-jet printers are bad. You didn’t know quite how bad: like HP’s very recent ‘Free Ink for Life’ deal that turned, just on 12 months later, “…into a ‘Pay us $0.99 every month for the rest of your life or your printer stops working’ plan” (EFF.org)
The ‘most famous paradox in physics’ nears its end: Physicists have proved that information does escape a black hole, the very thing that black holes weren’t supposed to do. So, what does that mean? (Wired).
Going to the Sahara Desert to count trees sounds rough. Instead,deep learning techniques identified trees from NASA’s satellite imagery, to count 1.8 billion of them (WeForum).
This is absolutely not 6G: “China sends ‘world’s first 6G’ test satellite into orbit” (BBC). 6G will be a standard decided by 3GPP. Which they’ll do anywhere sometime in the next 5-10 years. So whatever this is from China, with high-frequency terahertz waves (not GHz, THz) isn’t what 6G will be. It’s interesting, but not 6G. Ok, cool.
In honor of Alex Trebek, the nicest man on television,what is your favorite Jeopardy! moment or memory?(r/askreddit).
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