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Samsung’s new Galaxy F series smartphones, and more tech news today

July 04, 2025

1. Samsung’s new Galaxy F series

Samsung is set to launch theGalaxy F41 today.The F-series is starting in India first as a mid-range option, and the expectation is that Samsung will focus on cameras.

From India to the world?

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2.Sony’s teardown of the PlayStation 5showed some super industrial design touches. It’s well worth a watch to see how it lies flat, panels can be easily replaced, liquid metal cooling with giant heatsink, and dust catchers that let you vacuum out dust. Loads of good choices, but how liquid metal performs over time will be interesting, given it can dry out after two years or so. Also: faster Wi-Fi and USB ports than Xbox Series X.

  1. Report:Qualcomm to develop its own premium gaming phones with ASUS(Android Authority).

4.Samsung Galaxy S20 FE review: “Don’t dismiss the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE as an also-ran. This superb value delivers on the all-important basics such as screen quality and performance” (Android Authority).

  1. AMD’s Zen 3 event introducing Ryzen 5000 processors goes down today at 12PM ET.Watch on YouTube.

  2. Facebook says it willblock political ads after polls close on Election Day(Axios). Here’s atweet: “…i’d feel super weird if i built a thing and the only times ppl agree we made positive contributions to society was when we disabled parts of the thing” (Charlie Warzel, Twitter).

7.Amazon wants to ‘win at games.’So why hasn’t it? (Wired).

  1. Valve’slatest Steam festivallets you try hundreds of PC games for free (The Verge).

9.Learn to typeby copying literary masters (Gizmodo).

  1. Swedishdrone truck startup Einrideunveils new driverless vehicles for autonomous freight hauling (The Verge).

11.SpaceX has launched enough satellitesfor Starlink’s upcoming public beta (Ars Technica).

12. Here’s what Boom launched:the XB-1 demonstrator supersonic jet(Engadget).

13. As is tradition:These are 2020’s worst Halloween costumes(Gizmodo).

  1. “Howdo radio stations knowhow many people are tuning in?” (r/askscience).

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