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TCL updates its fan-fave TV range, Surface Duo has a baffling price, and more
June 17, 2025
1. New TCL TVs
While we wait for the seemingly unaffordable Surface Duo to launch proper, TCL has a much more appealing offer with its new 6-Series Roku TVs, now in 55, 65 and 75-inch models
What’s good?
The other TV newsis Xiaomi’s transparent TV, mainly for how much you shouldn’t want this, no matter how expensive the dress is:
2.Microsoft to launch Xbox Series X in November. No exact day yet, but much more firm now that the date has shifted from the general holiday 2020 release to a month (The Verge).
3.Microsoft has, though, delayed Halo Infinite to 2021— a possible delay was pre-empted, but given the way Microsoft went ahead with game demonstrations it looked like it’d still launch with the Series X. I suspect the November date was revealed to keep this story from looking too embarrassing (The Verge).
4.Samsung Display announces first variable refresh rate technology, and it’s on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. The ‘VRR’ tech means the latest Note 20 can shift between 120, 60, 30 and 10Hz modes, depending on what you’re doing with your device, aiming to preserve battery life (Android Authority).
5.Google Lens’ new ‘Homework’ filterwill solve math problems from a photo (Android Authority).
- OPPO could be working on phoneswith radical Li-Fi tech(Android Authority).
7.Google Pixel 4a vs older Google phones: Should you upgrade? (Android Authority).
8.Samsung Galaxy Buds Live vs Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus: the older the better (SoundGuys).
9.TikTok used a loophole to track MAC addresseson Android. Why? Ads, generally, but this fuels the TikTok data/China issues (WSJ, $).
10. Deeply bad news:Mozilla to lay off around 250 employees(Vice).
- New on TV:Netflix gaming documentary High Score, on gaming’s golden age, is ‘honestly solid’ (Ars Technica).
12. HowGoogle Meet weathered the work-from-home explosion(Wired).
- “A keyboard with blank keycapsmade me an expert typist” Hmm! (bojanvidanovic.com)
14. “Can insects/spiders get obese?” Short, gross answer: Yes (r/askscience).
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