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New TVs lack a killer feature, and more tech news you need to know

July 28, 2025

1. “Don’t buy a new TV”: yup

Gizmodois on the money post-CES, explaining why the latest and greatest TV technology trends are …actually not completely amazing or necessary just yet?

What’s next and why doesn’t it matter enough? Here’s what Gizmodo’s Adam Clark Estes noted out of CES 2020:

LG OLED Signature R TV

Even the manufacturers aren’t trying toconvince you, just yet:

What should you buy instead?

  1. A15-second-long hands-on video of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus has emerged, and the middle-tier 6.7-inch display device coming next month looks powerful (Android Authority).

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  1. Also there’s some explaining to doaround the Samsung Galaxy S20 120Hz display refresh rate rumors(Android Authority).

  2. Deal:Kindle Basic and Kindle Paperwhite on sale for 35% off, which is Black Friday level pricing (Android Authority).

  3. Trump criticizes Apple’s encryption stance on Pensacola phones, ACLU defends Apple (Reuters).

6.Disney+ was the most downloaded app in the US in Q4 2019(Sensor Tower).

7.How digital sleuths unraveled the mystery of Iran’s plane crash(Wired).

8.Coral is Google’s quiet initiative to enable AI without the cloud(The Verge).

9.Google says it will phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years, which will transform the cookie-tracking ad industry and probably would be bigger news if Chrome wasn’t part of Google which will likely stand to benefit (blog.chromium.org).

10.Instagram starts bringing DMs to the web(The Verge).

11.Visa, Plaid, Networks, and Jobs(Stratechery).

12.Is it really possible to improve one’s memory, if so, how?(r/nostupidquestions).

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