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Samsung’s 7,000mAh phone lands, and more tech news you need to know today
July 13, 2025
1. 7,000mAh
Samsung’s M-series of Galaxy smartphones promised plenty in early 2019 when they were first unveiled as proper mid-range devices, mostly focused on India.
Now we’ve seen rumors of the new Galaxy M51 with a huge battery, and Samsung surprised everyone with the phone quietlygoing official on Samsung’s official German website.
Otherwise, the leaks were right:
You cannow watch select Netflix originals for freewithout a subscription or an account: Strangers Things, Bird Box, Grace and Frankie, and more, free! Only first eps for TV shows, but you do get full movies (Android Authority).
Tested: How much doesBluetooth actually drain your phone battery?Thankfully, not much, but an interesting process here (Android Authority).
- Samsung doesn’t mind touting its manufacturing prowess with memory chips, but this is one time where it made a particularly notable breakthrough:16-gigabit LPDDR5 mobile RAM chips, first to be made using extreme ultraviolet lithography, coming to smartphones in 2021 (XDA).
5. ICYMI:Apple terminates Epic Games’ App Store account(TechCrunch).
Elon Musk trots out pigsin demo of Neuralink brain implant(The Verge).
NASA’s Mars Roverwill be powered by US-made plutonium: Oak Ridge National Laboratory produced the first plutonium fuel in the US in nearly 30 years. Now it’s headed to another planet (Wired).
Players arefixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s missing or messed up monumentswith Google Maps (rockpapershotgun.com)
Kymeta raises $85.2 million led by Bill Gatesto speed growth of its satellite-cellular antenna tech. No moving parts makes a big difference. (TechCrunch).
10. These newshape-shifting materials get super cool, super fast(Wired).
- WatchULA abort a rocket launch at the very last moment(Engadget). But that abort didn’t impact SpaceX, which launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sundaythat was historic for two reasons: 100th mission, polar corridor (Ars Technica). And finally in rocket things: Rocket Lab’s Electronmakes a successful return to flight out of NZ(YouTube).
12.Meet the “menu engineers”who optimize restaurant revenue (The Hustle).
- “What’s an industry secret in the field you work in?” (r/askreddit). Interesting one: job “requirements” are more of a wish-list situation so don’t think you need to check every box to apply.
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