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Will you install an exposure notification app? Plus more tech news today.
July 31, 2025
1. Your next decision: Exposure notification app, or no app?
Predicting a few days ahead let alone a week or two is folly, but what seems to be about to happen is that most people are going to have a phone with a COVID-19 contact tracing app on it.
That might not exactly be prophetic because it’s happening already:
Now, having said all that, the real question for most people that you’re going to have to think about is,will you voluntarily install an exposure notification/contact tracing app?
Will you install a COVID-19 contact tracing app?
2.Xiaomi’s MIUI 12 has launched with a major visual redesign, Dark Mode 2.0, better privacy, and more (Android Authority).
3.HUAWEI MatePad Pro review: Top-tier Android tablet suffers from a giant pain in the apps (Android Authority).
4.Samsung is reportedly working on a phone with a pop-up camera(Engadget).So, maybe not RIP pop-up selfies, as I lamented just a few weeks ago?
5.ASUS ROG Phone 3: What we want to see(Android Authority).
6.iFixit: You can use some iPhone 8 parts inside an iPhone SE(Engadget).
7.AMD vs Intel 2020: Who makes the best CPUs? New testing decides“AMD wins the CPU war overall right now, but depending on your needs, an Intel processor could still be the better choice” In desktop CPUs, not laptops or servers. (Tom’s Hardware).
One of the Apple Watch’s original designerstweeted a behind-the-scenes look at its development(The Verge).
A year after launch:Luminary wanted to become the Netflix of podcasts, but just hasn’t found traction yet, as it lowers prices. Podcast episodes that normally get more than 100,000 downloads got less than 50 from Luminary (Bloomberg).
One of the better explainers on why Silicon Valley investors raved about Magic Leap, and why it cratered:Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch(TechCrunch).
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