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Ford claims hands-free driving for the new Mustang, and more tech news today
August 02, 2025
1. Ford claims hands-free driving and that definitely won’t fail
One of Ford’s most important upcoming electric vehicles is its Mustang Mach-E, which is an SUV EV that adopts the muscle-car name even though it looks just like a crossover. And, er, quite like the Tesla Model Y and Audi E-Tron.
We’ve now seen more details trickle out since Ford’s announcement back in November of the car and what’s under the hood. The Blue Oval had a big one yesterday, saying it will offer‘Hands-Free’ Modein the new Mustang Mach-E bylate 2021(CNET).
In other Mach-E developments, there is a less likely-to-be-egg-on-face piece of news:
Final Ford news: A redesigned F-150 truck gets a reveal next week, but the EV F-150 is still a 2022 project last I heard.
2. Is this the Apple App Store reckoning?
The latest:Apple rejected Hey’s appeal in a letter that Apple’s Phil Schiller expandedon to Matthew Panzarino. Interestingly, Panzarino, very close to Apple, couldn’t agree with Apple’s stance (TechCrunch).
Then,Microsoft president Bras Smith didn’t name any namein taking a huge swipe at rivals, stating: “I do believe the time has come, whether we’re talking about Washington, D.C., or Brussels, for a much more focused conversation about the nature of app stores, the rules that are being put in place, the prices and the tolls that are being extracted and whether there is really a justification in antitrust law for everything that has been created” and implied everything happening with both Apple and Google with app stores is worse than anything Microsoft did with Windows back in the day (Politico).
Finally, the House antitrust committee chair explosively said:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’in a fresh podcast (The Verge).
We might notsee the Motorola Razr 2 in 2020, due to COVID-19 (Android Authority).
Fallout from the India-China border skirmishes:here’s all the Chinese apps India wants to ban, TikTok and Xiaomi included (Android Authority).
Samsung patents a pretty wildsix-camera tilting arrayfor its smartphones (Android Authority).
6.Apple may return iOS to its original ‘iPhone OS’ name at WWDC(Apple Insider). Also,Apple now accepts Mac trade-ins in its US stores. The trade-in offers are not great, but better than Best Buy (The Verge).
- EA had an event yesterday, and theStar Wars: Squadrons space combat gameis the big talking point, coming October 2. The ‘one more thing’ announcement was that it is finally, actually making a new Skate game:Skate 4(Polygon).
8.Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed again—this time to November: “Trading trust for additional time is one of the hardest decisions a developer can make.” (Ars Technica).
9.Masked arsonist might’ve gotten away with it if she hadn’t left Etsy review. Interesting reading for understanding how you leave traces of your identity everywhere. As one comment said, “That’s some dedicated, if unfortunately selective, pursuit of justice.” (Ars Technica).
10.A robot sloth will (very slowly) survey endangered species. Oh my, the picture is incredible. (Engadget).
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