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Daily Authority: 📱 Pixel app streaming to PC, Mac, Chromebook
June 18, 2025
☕ Good morning! Happy Valentine’s Day Boxing Day …if anyone celebrates that?
Stream Android apps?
A good discovery by9to5Googlepaints an interesting picture: via the latest Android 13 release,it looks like Google Pixel phones can stream Android apps to PC, Mac, or Chromebook, be it running Windows or not.
The details:
What it all means:
🤷♂️ TheSamsung display controversy from yesterdaywasdownplayed by Samsung in an official statementsaying the hardware hasn’t changed, but it makes software adjustments to the refresh rate(Android Authority). Reading between the lines of that statement, I still don’t understand why Samsung “later opted to update how we communicate this specification.” It’s either accurate, or it’s not.
📸 After OnePlus went first, co-brandOppo’s Find X phones will now get the Hasselblad treatment, too(Android Authority).
🔜Samsung Galaxy A23 renders leak, showing a familiar design, but that might not be a bad thing(Android Authority).
🎁 Someofficial OnePlus Nord CE 2 images and specs revealedahead of Thursday launch, and it’ll have a headphone jack too(Android Authority).
🤔Motorola and Verizon made a chonky 5G neckbandfor AR/VR to save on headset weight(Android Authority).
📺 Some good YouTube vids: my colleague Joe Hindy’sfull Android 13 DP 1 breakdown, and some others:Why China is getting interesting new smartphone tech before other regions, andthe crazy computations inside your smartphone cameras, which is long but a good overview(YouTube).
👉 New report detailshow Apple forced Facebook to pivotits advertising tech(Recode).
🍎 Apple Support app for iPhone and iPadadds new ‘price estimates’ feature for service feesfor fixing damage etc, and more(9to5Mac).
🍏 For a fourth week,Apple is fined by the Netherlands: regulator says Apple is being unreasonable making developers submit a different version of their apps just for the Netherlands(MacRumors).
💰Intel to acquire contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductorfor $5.4 billion, meaning more direct competition for TSMC(VentureBeat).
🤑 Cryptocurrency’sbig Super Bowl ads sold FOMO, not the future(The Verge).
😎 Something from me as EVs rapidly become dominant:What impact will ubiquitous EVs have on the grid, our cities, countries, and solar?(PV Magazine).
📈 France, which has 56 nuclear power plants,announced it is adding 14 more, in a change from previous plans related to both local and world politics, and carbon emissions(Ars Technica).
🌎 I meant to link toWorldleyesterday (world, not word!): it’s good simple fun where you guess a country and your guess is rated based on distance, but today’s country wasn’t easy for me! Of all the Wordle off-shoot ideas, this one I keep coming back to (worldle.teuteuf.fr).
💩Wastewater sampling already tracks Covid. What else can it find?(Wired).
🚀Billionaire who flew to orbit with SpaceXbuys three new missions to space(The Verge).
👁 “How do eyelash microorganismsget to a newborn baby?” (r/askscience).
Chart Tuesday
Well, this sure was frightening to look at this morning:
Ominously,
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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