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Best of Android Mid-2020 winner plus your vote, and more tech news today
July 02, 2025
1. The Best of Android: Mid-2020 winner
The OnePlus 8 Pro was the Editor’s Choice winner for the Best of Android: Mid-2020 edition, beating out the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus.
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2. GPT3- Excitement
GPT-3 is lighting up social media, the third generation of OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformer.
Asking for a simple answer to what is GPT-3 is probably more easily answered by watching videos of how it works, but here’s a brief attempt at what it is:
Things to know:
Here are a variety of early views on what it means:
3. Great reporting here:Hackers tell the story of the Twitter Attack from the inside(New York Times).Twitter has posted more detail here, if you missed it (Twitter).
4.Galaxy Fold 2 could cost more than Samsung’s first foldable phone(Android Authority).
5.Google Chrome is testing a ‘download later’feature to manage large downloads: here’s how to enable it (Android Authority).
6. Has OnePlusoverhyped the OnePlus Nord?(Android Authority).
7.Dyson Pure Hot and Cool HP04 Air Purifier Review: Clean air, pure flair (Android Authority).
8.Seven ‘no log’ VPN providers accused of leaking– yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet. “Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: ‘No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!’” (The Register).
- Disney has reportedlypaused its spending on Facebook ads. Why does that matter? Disney spends the most: “Disney spent about $210 million for Disney Plus ads on Facebook in the US in the first half of 2020, the WSJ reports” (The Verge).
10.United Arab Emirates launches ‘Hope’ mission to Marson Japanese rocket (Space).
- Comet NEOWISE:10 big questions (and answers) about the icy wanderer(Space). Some tips for capturingwhat is a photographer’s dream(CNET).
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