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The long goodbye for the 747 now certain, plus more tech news today
July 10, 2025
1.The end of the 747
Boeing’s legendary 747, first built in 1968 and built continuously since then, is over. Finished. No more. Capiche?
(Photo credit: Lufthansa/Oliver Roesler)
The final 747 variant in production at Boeing, the 747-8F freighter jet, will reportedly cease production as fresh orders come to a halt.
And,as Jalopnik points out, for real this time. No, really!:
Twin-engines preferred:
New Samsung Galaxy phonemight get close to the 7,000mAh battery barrier(Android Authority).
“I wish theOnePlus 8 Pro was more like the OPPO Find X2 Pro” (Android Authority).
4.TikTok predicts staggering loss of cashfollowing India ban (Android Authority).
5.What are Apple Car Keys (CarKey) and is there an alternative on Android?(Android Authority).
6.LG CX OLED TVreview: New paper-thin C-series is really expensive, but it looks really, really good (Wired).
7.US sanctions make HUAWEI more of a security risk: UK to phase out HUAWEI network infrastructure, including already installed 5G, by end of 2020, says leaked report (Bloomberg).
8.A future Chrome update may extend your laptop’s battery life by up to 2 hours. Two hours?! Google’s own tests showed “an experimental feature in Chrome 86 will reduce energy use by shutting down unnecessary JavaScript timers and trackers when a tab is in the background.” (The Windows Club).
9.Nice insight into Sony’s secret weapon for PlayStation: a nearly all-automated factory, that pumps out a new Playstation every 30 seconds (Nikkei).
10.People have committed more than $300,000for a NASA-designed perfume that smells like space. Spoiler: “The smell of space has been compared to many things over the years, including “seared steak, gunpowder, hot metal, and arc welding on [an astronaut’s] motorbike.” Mm, the smell of hot energy and radiation (Gizmodo).
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