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Essential’s long phone, and more tech news you need to know today
July 16, 2025
1. The thin, weird Essential phone
We’ve heard Essential has been working on a new device. We had indications it was unusual. We saw specs leaks that suggested a new concept. But this is really something:
The Essential very tall, very thin Android smartphone:
The Essential problem:
- Arm makes blueprints for processors that later get made into chips from the likes of HUAWEI, MediaTek, Samsung and Qualcomm. At its big annual conference happening right now,Arm is talking about its next designs focusing on “digital immersion,” privacy, and more, as Adam explains (Android Authority).
3.Motorola One Macro launched: Another Motorola One, this time with a camera for close-ups (Android Authority).
4.You can now easily move music or video streams between Google smart home devices: just ask, and it’ll move, if you want (Android Authority).
5.Windows 10 preview brings Android phone calls to your PC(Engadget).
- The easy part for big tech was computers and apps: nowevery problem facing big tech is “fiendishly hard”(Axios).
7.You need a modern MacBook with a butterfly keyboard to use macOS Catalina’s iPad Sidecar feature(The Verge).
8.PlayStation 5, holidays 2020. We always knew but didn’t know for sure but now it’s official. And now we know know (Wired).
9.Collapse OS: An open source operating system for the post-apocalypse (Vice).
10.Blizzard: One of America’s biggest gaming companies is acting as China’s censor(Vox.com).
11.Nobel in physics is a two-fer: Big Bang and exoplanets(Ars Technica).
- Oh… and one last thing. We don’t include the daily bit of fun you get each day in the DGiT Daily, but this time, why the heck not? Here’s your Wednesday Weirdness:
Oobleck has been solved!Oobleck, this stuff:
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