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Your tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter<\/a>, for Wednesday, July 8.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n It’s official: Samsung has announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5<\/a>, at 10AM ET, a fully virtual and streamed event, of course, which will see a different approach to Samsung’s usual stadium-like events held in Brooklyn, New York City, and Berlin before that.<\/p>\n What to expect:<\/strong><\/p>\n Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n Keeping up:<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. What’s stopping Spotify from being the perfect music app? A Spotify cloud music locker<\/a>, for uploading your own tracks. Couldn’t agree more with this opinion (Android Authority<\/em>).<\/p>\n 3. There’s a new gaming phone on the horizon from Lenovo, called the Lenovo Legion. Apparent new benchmark leaks reveal it’s very fast<\/a>, thanks to the supposed and as-yet-non-existent Snapdragon 865 Plus SoC and its GPU benefits. Hmm! (notebookcheck.net<\/em>).<\/p>\n 4. Walmart Plus may launch in July to compete with Amazon Prime<\/a>: $98 yearly, unlimited same-day grocery delivery, fuel discounts, and potentially a ‘Scan & Go service’ that would allow checkouts in Walmart stores without waiting in line (Android Authority<\/em>). Also: Uber launches grocery delivery<\/a> in Latin America, Canada with the US to follow (Reuters<\/em>).<\/p>\n 5. Apple is working on QR Code payments<\/a> for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals (9to5Mac<\/em>).<\/p>\n 6. Ad boycott leaders say meeting with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg was ‘a disappointment’<\/a>, and the boycott, now with 800 companies on board, will continue (Engadget<\/em>). Also: ‘Too little, too late’: Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch until ‘late fall’<\/a> (TechCrunch).<\/p>\n 7. Alphabet’s Loon balloons provide their first commercial internet service in Kenya<\/a>: 35 hot air balloons will provide 4G LTE at about a 20km elevation. Loon says June testing saw speeds of 18.9Mbps down, 4.74Mbps up, latency of 19ms (Loon<\/em>).<\/p>\n 8. The rise and fall of Adobe Flash<\/a>: “Before Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it” (Ars Technica<\/em>).<\/p>\n 9. “About 8 months ago, I got a handwritten letter through the mail on a blank piece of paper with one sentence: “File a FOIA with USPS for [Long Life Vehicles] truck fires.” 4,000 pages of documents later, here’s the story:” Hundreds of USPS mail trucks are spontaneously catching fire<\/a>, seemingly because they’re 30-years-old and the US Post has no money to replace them (Vice<\/em>).<\/p>\n 10. The next SpaceX launch of Starlink satellites<\/a> happens today just before midday ET. Live stream on YouTube<\/a> (spaceflightnow.com).<\/p>\n Tags:<\/b> Tristan Rayner\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: August 5<\/h2>\n
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Your tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter, for Wednesday, July 8. 1. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: August 5 It’s official: Samsung has announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, at 10AM ET, a fully virtual and streamed event, of course, which will see a different approach to Samsung’s usual stadium-like events … Continue reading A date for the next Galaxy Unpacked and Note 20, and more tech news today<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading