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Perseverance lift-off, Big Tech grilling highlights, and more tech news today
August 04, 2025
1. The Grilling of Big Tech
After an hour delay, yesterday’s congressional subcommittee hearing stretched nearly six hours. Much has been said about too many members of the subcommittee wasting time with politically-motivated questioning …during an antitrust hearing.
But enough committee members came prepared, with internal corporate emails and detail from interviews with smaller companies that said they were harmed by anti-competitive practices. And questions yielded some surprising answers from the tech CEOS.
Did we get any fundamental new revelations? Yes and no. Here are some of the big moments out of the five hours, 29 minutes, thanks to great reporting:
Other bits:
2.From motion blur to audio zoom, here’s what Google could soon bring to Pixels based on app teardown insights (Android Authority).
- Report:HUAWEI eclipses Samsung as the world’s biggest smartphone maker(Android Authority).
4.Alexagate is a gloriously unnecessary toolto stop Amazon Echo from listening (Android Authority).
5.Google One will backup iOS or Android devicesfor free (The Verge).
6.Apple earnings tonight: What to watch for, including iPhone 12 launch (CNET). Mind you, a possible spoiler:Qualcomm results suggest the 5G iPhonewill be slightly delayed: “Qualcomm is expecting “a partial impact from the delay of a global 5G flagship phone launch” (Engadget).
7.AMD: No delays for PS5, Xbox Series X, Zen 3 CPUs, and RDNA 2 GPUs, on-schedule projects underscore Intel’s continuing failures to deliver (Ars Technica).
8.Sony plans to test its prototype Vision-S electric car on public roads. The surprise from CES might be more than a concept car (Engadget).
9.Mars’ elongated cloud has reappeared. Like clockwork! (Gizmodo).
10.Del.icio.usmight be back?Discussion here(Hacker News).
- ELI5:Why have we settled on 16:9 as the standard aspect ratio?(r/explainlikeimfive)
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