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Qualcomm’s focus on imaging/connectivity and 4G, and more tech news today
July 10, 2025
1. New Qualcomm mid-range, 4G-only chipsets
Qualcomm’s range of chipsets for 2020 devices has expanded today, a few weeks after the more attention-grabbing launch of the flagship Snapdragon 865 range, which included 5G capabilities.
But at the 4G end – which is, to be fair, exactly where most of us will be for 2020 – Qualcomm has overhauled its more budget options for powering mid-range devices.
2.Here’s how Google Assistant wake-word sensitivity could work(Android Authority).
3.There’s an enormously creepy New York Times expose on a new facial recognition database run by Clearview AI and used by US police. It encompasses just about everyone who’s ever been online. Worth your time (NYT). Meanwhile:the EU is considering a ban of up to five years on facial recognition in public spaces(Politico).
- Also, yesterday,Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, published a (fairly dry) editorial arguing for regulation of AI(FT, $): “Now there is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated. It is too important not to. The only question is how to approach it.”
5.Disney+ is coming to Europe a week sooner than expected: March 24th for £5.99/€6.99 per month(Engadget).
6.Tesla says faulty acceleration allegation is ‘completely false’(The Verge).
7.“Living concrete” with cyanobacteria is an interesting first step, as long as you know it’s not really self-healing and can’t grow (Ars Technica).
8.A new type of immune cell which kills most cancers has been accidentally discovered by British scientists(Telegraph.co.uk)
9.Astronomers find an oddball asteroid entirely inside the orbit of Venus(Ars Technica).
- “How much power leaks from a charger that is not connected to a device?” (r/askscience). (Not much!)
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