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Daily Authority: 💻 Samsung has more to Unpack
July 30, 2025
🐤 Good morning! Hurricane-level winds here were warned, and a pigeon couple nesting outside my apartment window is bunkering down in the gusts. Hang in there!
Galaxy Book launch?
A week since the Galaxy S22 series launched, and now Samsung is announcing anew Galaxy Unpacked event.
What’s coming?
📱OPPO Find X5 Proofficial launch date set for just before MWC: February 24 (Android Authority).
📺 Microsoft is testing one ofAndroid’s best accessibility features in Windows 11: Live Caption (Android Authority).
📸 “Pixel cameras are foolproof, but I’m the foolwho wants a manual mode” (Android Authority).
📁 Foldable phone market “will hit $29 billion in 2025,” IDC says, which sounds like a lot but is only 1.7% of the entire market(CNET).
📊App Annie rebrands to Data.aias it attempts to be more than a mobile data and analytics platform?(VentureBeat).
🖥 Mini LED,the next best thing to OLED, is getting cheaper in PC monitors(Ars Technica).
🏡Disney is developing planned communitiesfor fans who never want to leave its clutches: “Storyliving”(The Verge).
📉Is Firefox OK? The browser is flatlining(Wired).
💻Chrome OS Flex is an ideal off-rampfor millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11 — a verdict after testing out the new tech(Ars Technica).
☢️ Latest success from Google’s AI group:Controlling a nuclear fusion reactor(Ars Technica).
🔋 Welp,the Hummer EV’s battery weighs more than a Honda Civicat 2,923 lbs (1,325kg). Giant SUVs aren’t great in any form, really(The Verge).
🤔 “ELI5:How did Duck Hunt for Nintendo work?” Love hearing about the light sensors involved in 40-year old tech and how the gun fire noise covered up the screen blanking! (r/explainlikeimfive).
Throwback Thursday
Remember as far back as a few years ago stretching to right now, when we had to use our spoken voice to activate Alexa/Assistant/Siri?
Well, no longer are you a slave to decibels, with a new invention:A wearable smart camera that can detect voice commands without a sound(Gizmodo).
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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