Daily Authority: π The good and bad from Apple
π Of course, there was Pixel 6 news during the Apple event, with Pixel 6 Pro leaks based on a βrealβ unit on high-end features like UWB support, 12 GB RAM, 5,000 mAh battery, and more encouraging Point out details. (Android authority).
π Fairphone’s first 5G smartphone leaks with a new design (Android authority).
π Personal tracking technology is heading for a precise – and dangerous – new era (Android authority).
π€― Nintendo is finally adding Bluetooth audio to the Switch in a new software update. The detail here is interesting: adding a headset means you can connect fewer controllers. Sounds like Nintendo had to do hardware magic or compromise. Anyway, it’s finally here now (The edge).
πΊ LG’s new 325-inch Direct View 8K LED TV is an answer to Samsung’s The Wall. There’s no price listed, but what is fun is that LG charges $ 30,000 for setup and support (Engage).
π New emojis are coming: bubbles, melting face, a kind of biting lip emoji that feels very thirsty (The edge).
π New York passes law for the first time banning the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles after 2034 (Ars-Technica).
π SpaceX Inspiration4 mission, the first purely civilian flight into space (featuring a cancer survivor and the first person to fly into space with a prosthesis) is ready for departure tonight at 8:02 p.m. ET (Abc news).
π² This is wonderful read – Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy-Colored Dream Bike: βThe Tour de France legend and anti-doping crusader is building an ultra-light e-bike that he hopes will be hellishly fun – and to give a US carbon jump start – fiber boom. ” (Wired).
π’ The frustration with the productivity culture (New Yorker).
πΏ A sad day yesterday when Norm McDonald died prematurely of cancer. My friend, who has seen almost all comedy ever, rates his Moth Joke as his most popular (YouTube).
π€ βWhich product would humanity improve the most if its cost were reduced to US $ 1?β (R / askreddit).