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Daily Authority: 🎁 S22, Ultra, Tab S8
July 25, 2025
☕ Good morning! Whew, lots to consider this morning with Samsung’s generous bonus offers…
Galaxy everything
Samsung took the wraps off itsGalaxy S22 seriesand its new tablets in theTab S8 seriesand I really liked what we saw from Samsung in nearly every way.
S22 Ultra:
S22, S22 Plus:
Pre-orders vs waiting for reviews
Tablets: Galaxy Tab S8 series
Other stuff:
⌚ Samsungconfirms Galaxy Watch 4 will see updatesfor years to come (Android Authority).
👉 A newOnePlus Nord CE 2 is coming next week. Here’s what we know.(Android Authority).
🔧 Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shapewith bet on RISC-Vvia a new $1b innovation fund. Intel trying stuff again is great to see(Ars Technica).
📈RIP cheap SSD prices: Western Digital, Kioxia say they’ve lost “at least” 6.5 Exabytes of 3D NAND due to contamination, which is crazy (Tom’s Hardware).
🎮Nintendo Direct happened yesterday!Nintendo announced Mario Kart 8 DLC, with 48 new upcoming racetracks, the return of Wii Sports with Nintendo Switch Sports, plus Portal and Portal 2 are coming to Switch, as is No Man’s Sky, and more(Ars Technica).
⚛ Nuclear fusion! It’s back!There’s a pretty accessible read here on the UK’s tokamakat the JET laboratory which generated fusion lasting five seconds, which is a huge breakthrough on the path towards sustaining longer and longer reactions. Still decades away :((BBC).
💍 Got a spare $2 billion? You couldown the Lord of the Rings filmrights(Gizmodo).
⚡ Cansuper-fast battery charginghelp the electric car?(Wired).
☄️Fiery death of SpaceX Starlink satellitescaptured on video after geomagnetic storm(Space).
🤔 “ELI5: Why can you jumpstart a car batterywith the black cable on the negative pin on the battery or the car frame? Doesn’t the electricity flow from negative to positive?” (r/explainlikeimfive).
Throwback Thursday
Oh hey, throwback to when Futurama was a thing on TV because …it’s back!
Varietypublished the news that Hulu is reviving it, and I might as well just quoteVariety:
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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