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Apple working on rolling out 12-core MacBook ARM processors, and more tech news
August 19, 2025
1. Apple dropping Intel by 2021:Bloomberg
BloombergreportsApple will be aiming to offer its MacBook range with its own ARM-based chips starting in 2021. That leaves Intel out in the cold, in theory, but this has been talked about since the start of the last decade, and we last reported on itin February this year.
Now, though, more specific details have emerged that paints a picture of a 2021 debut for Apple-made chips in all of its iOS and MacBook products.
Key new details of the codenamed ‘Kalamata project’ from the report:
2.Android 11 Developer Preview 3 is out now, likely the last developer-only release before wider betas start, maybe on May 12, the previous date of Google I/O? Big new features: auto revoke permissions for apps you haven’t used in a while, remove persistent notifications, better app menus, resize picture-in-picture windows, take easier screenshots, and lots of developer under-the-hood updates (Android Authority).
3.The LG Velvet is launching on May 7(Android Authority).
- Good news:The FCC voted to free up 1,200MHz of additional bandwidthwhich gives rise to 6GHz Wi-Fi, or next-gen Wi-Fi 6E products (CNET).
5.AmazonBasicsare Amazon-branded products that tend to focus closely on popular items being bought on Amazon Marketplace, which is not its store but its platform. They’ve been uncannily targeted, and often are useful, cheaper options that leave competitors struggling on price and prominence on Amazon.com. It’s fine to offer private-label products, as most big stores do to an extent.
But Amazon’s potential advantage is having access to third-party seller data, thereby understanding product popularity to an extent other retailers never would. Amazon executives, though, told Congress it doesn’t use data it collects on third-party brands.New Wall Street Journal reporting, though, indicates otherwise: “Yet interviews with more than 20 former employees of Amazon’s private-label business and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal reveal that employees did just that.” Messy (WSJ).
6.Google Assistant tweak boosts its ability to recognize your voice(Engadget).
7.Google to cut marketing budgets for second half of year, report says(CNET).
8.This story on Airbnb’s plans to bounce back after the pandemic is a good one(Bloomberg).
9.Elon Musk says Starlink internet private betato begin in roughly three months, public beta in six (TechCrunch).
10.US Space Force’s first offensive weapon is a satellite jammer(Interesting Engineering).
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