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Daily Authority: ⬜ Why white smartphones are hard to make
July 16, 2025
☕ Good morning!
Two tech facts: white is hard, laptop cameras harder
Fact #1: White smartphones are difficult to make
Here’s a chance to learn something this morning: why smartphones are rarely white, and why our laptop cameras are terrible.
The first comes via OnePlus. It just announced a new white OnePlus 10 Pro in China, the first time a white OnePlus has appeared since 2018 and the OnePlus 6.
OnePlus product line president Liu Fengshuo noted three reasons on Weibo:
Fact #2: Laptop webcams are terrible and this is why
Also in the Today I Learned fact file is why laptop webcams are bad. (You might already know, by the way! Or, at least, feel free to guess…)
So, why have webcams been stuck at rubbish resolutions for so long? Lenovo has answers.
🔎 ICYMI:Google.com is testing a busier homepagefor the first time in forever, with a row of info cards, and it all reminds me of AltaVista and Yahoo (Ars Technica).
👉 Also ICYMI:First Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro details leakand it’s very very early, but…(Android Authority).
🤔Galaxy Book 2 360 renders leak: Here’s what Samsung could reveal at MWC(Android Authority).
🎞 TheSnapdragon 8 Gen 2 could finally gain a key missing feature: AV1 codec support(Android Authority).
💻 Gurman:Apple to launch new Macs next month, with more to come around May or June: high-end Mac mini and a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a 24-inch iMac, and a redesigned MacBook Air, all outfitted with the rumored M2 chip(MacRumors).
🤯A fake company tricked real people into working for itand now being “jobfished” is a thing(BBC).
⛓ Also, a real company,OpenSea, saw people on its marketplace tricked, with their NFTs being supposedly phished away… and then returned, oddly enough. Or was OpenSea exploited?(CoinDesk).
☄King Tut’s meteorite daggerhas a mystery origin story(Gizmodo).
🎮 Capcom announcesStreet Fighter 6via a new teaser trailer for the game: no word on a release window, or which consoles it’ll be for(Engadget).
🎨 “AI’s next trick?Helping unearth amazing artwork”(Wired).
🔴Perseverance celebrates one year and 200,000 imageson Mars(NASA).
📺 “What’s a movie you lovethat you swear no one ever talks about like the world has forgotten it?” (r/askreddit).
Monday Meme
These memes: cool, or terrible? I can’t figure it out but I can’t stop looking at this:Hidreley Diaouses AI to capture what historical figures would look like if they were modern people, and a guy put them into aTwitter thread here.
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor
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