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Daily Authority: 🎂 Android 13 and Tiramisu
July 24, 2025
🚀 Good morning! Android 13’s codename is delicious, and Elon Musk has crazy ambitions for space and Mars, of course. On with the day!
Android 13
LuckyAndroid 13 is here! Android dessert officiallycodename Tiramisuwas announced as ready to download as a developer preview at 1PM ET yesterday. Developers and enthusiasts with a spare Pixel are now able to load the early test version up from that moment to get a look at what’s to come from Android.
What’s new:
📸Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra camera test: Check out these quick look photo samples(Android Authority).
🍩 Here’sSony’s strange doughnut-shaped earbudscalled the LinkBuds WF-900(Android Authority).
📲 Dead or alive?Here’s what’s happeningwith BlackBerry phones(Android Authority).
🍎Apple is still working on stopping AirTags being so useful for tracking people: its new plan will be more safeguards, more warnings(Gizmodo).
👍Apple’s latest update should fix MacBooks’ battery drain issue: get to 12.2.1, people(The Verge).
🍏 This is nuts:Apple admits it changes every ex-employee’s role to the work “associate,”which means nothing, strips people of their titles, leads to mismatching titles that prevent people getting a new job, and creates a kind of “false information” zone. Understandably,stories like thismake people mad. I see an argument that people would prefer Apple saying it can’t confirm any details, rather than reporting incorrect information?(WashPo).
🤔Xiaomi founder Lei Jun “vows to challenge Apple”with sharpened focus on the global high-end smartphone market(SCMP).
🤖 “Arobot bought my seven-year-old carfor more than I paid brand-new.” Wow. Seven years old! Car prices are nuts, but the detail here is exceptional. Great read.(The Verge).
👉AMD’s $35 billion purchase of semiconductor company Xilinx, which makes FPGAs and ASICs, not CPUs and GPUS, has actually gone through(The Verge).
🔋US Army turns to microgrids, EVsto hit net zero by 2050. EV tanks?(Ars Technica).
🚀SpaceX Starship event recap: Elon Musk talks Mars missions, ambitious goals as always, including a future “where Starships could be built every three days,” and more in megarocket update(CNET).
☄Another video of the falling SpaceX Starlink satellites, this one crossed Spain apparently (Twitter).
🥗 “Is the stomach basically a constant ‘vat of acid’ that the food we eat just plops into and starts breaking down ordo the stomach walls simply secrete the acids rapidlywhen needed?” (r/askscience).
Friday Fun
I’m a sucker for a decoding job and there’s a fun write-up of the decoding of a 160-year-old letter written by Charles Dickens, which has been solved thanks to some classic internet crowd-sourced efforts.
Decode this: Vjrrtd!
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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