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Pixel 4a: $349 but with no Active Edge?, and more tech news today
July 13, 2025
1. Pixel 4a: $349, but with no squeeze?
I’ve been saying it for a while, but theGoogle Pixel 4areally is right around the corner. And at $349, it’s going to be an interesting device.
Why $349, exactly?
What else?
2.Samsung’s latest 50MP camera sensorprioritizes low-light performance over big numbers (Android Authority).
3.OnePlus to temporarily disable the OnePlus 8 Pro color filter camera, which provided a round of tech amusement at its ‘X-ray’ abilities, evidently bad enough PR that it’s been turned off (Android Authority).
4.Um, Walmart’s $99 Android tablet …actually looks pretty good?(Ars Technica).
- Something different I wrote:How to invest as a beginner. Not advice, just the start of ideas and introduction to useful things like ETFs (Android Authority).
6.The FBI cracked the iPhones of the Pensacola shooter without Apple’s help, but it is mad at Apple and talking about legislative moves (Engadget).
- Minecraft just won’t stop:It’s now topped 200M unit sales, up from 100M in 2016, and with monthly players rising in April, has reached 126M monthly players (GeekWire). I remember when the $2.5B Microsoft paid in 2014 for Minecraft and Mojang seemed an enormous amount.
8.How a Chinese AI giant made chatting—and surveillance—easy: a profile of voice-computing company iFlytek (Wired).
9.Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ package will cost $1,000 more by July, no word yet on the monthly subscription cost angle mentioned last month (Engadget).
10.Bill Gates is back with his annual summer reading list, plus TV shows, and suggested we all play Bridge (gatesnotes.com).
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