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Who says no to $100/month for the SpaceX Starlink beta, and more tech news today
August 17, 2025
1. $100 a month for SpaceX Starlink seems really good, and more
So, $100 a month plus $500 upfront with no data cap, decent speeds, and latency low enough for most normal purposes. That’s really good! The occasional outage as more satellites wait to get into orbit to create more bandwidth overlaps makes sense, even if it may be a touch annoying depending on how quickly outages come and go.
Discussion on Redditseems to indicate that Starlink is being made available to those in a latitude range above 44 ° N, which isn’t much of the population of the United States. (Chicago sits at 41.9° N)
2. “The OnePlus 8Thas a Nord problem” (Android Authority).
3. What is glass-ceramic?Apple’s Ceramic Shield explained(Android Authority).
4.TCL 10 5G UW review: Bringing affordable 5G to Verizon customers (Android Authority).
5.Apple develops alternative to Google search, writes the FT: ‘In the latest version of iOS 14, Apple has begun to show its own search results and link directly to websites when users type queries from its home screen.’ Interesting! ($, FT.com). The report has no quoted sources but joins the dots: we’ve known John Giannandrea and the Siri team have been working on search outside of Apple’s current engines in Apple Photos, the App Store, Apple Maps, etc, and making Siri more useful seems absolutely necessary, and useful to Apple users, plus the increase in web crawler traffic adds more data against the noise. But a general search engine to take on Google would be another big step, even for Apple.
Also another interesting Apple report via The Information: “Profit margin tensions souring relationship between Apple and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn)” (MacRumors).
- TheiPhone 12 could support reverse chargingin the future, FCC filing hints (Engadget).
7.Microsoft gets a pandemic boostthanks to Surface, Xbox, and cloud services (The Verge).
- PS5 vs. Xbox Series X:The next-gen consoles in photos(The Verge).
- Logitech improved on the nearly flawless trackball, with the new $50Logitech Ergo M575 for the thumb-oriented(Gizmodo).
10.Daimler (aka Mercedes-Benz) signed an agreement with Waymo (Alphabet/Google) to make an L4 autonomous truck, with Daimler Trucks developing a customized Freightliner Cascadia truck chassis. No timeline or price-point (The Verge)
- Harley-Davidson unveils agorgeous new electric bike called Serial 1. Wow — on sale in March 2021 (The Verge).
12.Cyberpunk 2077 delayedto December 10. Quite a few people are mad but it’s ok to get things right (Twitter).
13. What comes afterthe International Space Station?(Wired).
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