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125W charging is hot but battery tech is adapting, and more tech news today!
August 14, 2025
1. 125W smartphone charging is here: what it means
If you’re like me, you probably charge your phone at night as you go to bed. Possibly within reach of you while in bed. Plenty of time to reach 100% charge.
But there are times when topping up fast could be handy. And that’s the idea behindOppo’s new 125W Flash Charge specbeing unveiled today.
What gives?
Also:OPPO hasn’t announced a phone that will ship with this technology yet, nor how much it all costs. It’s unlikely we’ll get much real insight until the next major OPPO flagship phone, possibly in the Ace series.
2. MoreLenovo Legion gaming phone specsspill in retail listing, ahead of July 22 unveiling (Android Authority).
3.Peacock launches todayat free and premium tiers: NBCUniversal’s new streaming service (owned by Comcast) has TV shows like Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, plus films from Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Animation, and, The Office, exclusively, (starting Jan. 2021). Because it’s free, it has a chance of being an app many have, but not on Roku or Amazon TV at the moment (Android Authority).
- 🛍Google Play Pass news: 150 more games, finally expanding outside the US, new $30 annual subscription (Android Authority).
5.Apple and Ireland win European appealover multi-billion tax deal. Lots more to come out of this (Engadget).
The Best of Android: Mid-2020 —Which phone has the best battery life?(Android Authority).
Next-gen game consoles:Sony boosting output of PlayStation 5 to meet demand: 10M PS5s by end 2020, a boost of 50% (Bloomberg).Digging into the tech specs: Microsoft details exactly how the comingXbox Series X will load 4.8GB/s from memory(Ars Technica).
🚗 German courtslams the brakes on Tesla’s bogus ‘Autopilot’ marketing(The Next Web).
🤔 The TikTok War: Ben Thompson argues while TikTok’s data security is problematic,what should truly concern Americans “is the algorithm.”Too good; too opaque. Thoughtful read. (Stratechery).
🐛Stop what you’re doing and patch the Windows bug that took Microsoft 17 years to fix(Gizmodo).
11.SpaceX gets closer to a private betaof its Starlink internet service (Engadget).
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