Daily Authority: iPhone day 🚀
📈 Seven Marketing tricks Phone brands should stop using (Android authority).
👓 Xiaomi wants to replace phones with these Mission Impossible style smart glasses with a small projector, two 5 MP cameras and speakers, but You are just a concept, with no real details, not stylish at all, so don’t be fooled (Android authority).
👍 Pixel 6 series could Bring back the push to enable the Active Edge feature from the Pixel 4 (and from HTC before that). Also, Google has a Pixel Super Fan Club Thing, for the time being only in the USA (Android authority).
🔜 New Qualcomm chip Reportedly in the works for cheaper gaming phones (Android authority).
💸 Google has fined $ 177 million for abuse of Android dominance (again), in South Korea (Android authority).
🍎 Apple has a. patched major NSO zero day bug affecting all devices (any iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch) which means you should update again right away (TechCrunch).
😬 This latest Facebook VIP detail is appalling with The Wall Street Journal explosive details reveal, as if that weren’t enough: “For a few members of our community, we don’t enforce our policies and standards.” reads an internal Facebook report. “Unlike the rest of our community, these people can violate our standards without any consequences.” Incredibly, this was the case for 5.8 million people, which is completely wild. Facebook’s response: “We regret the problem and promise to do better in the future.” My oh my. (Ars Technica).
🌃 Google.com rolls out a dark mode to all (Ars-Technica).
📈 A joke that Walmart will accept Litecoin is causing cryptocurrency prices to skyrocket: The Litecoin / Walmart hoax yesterday was good enough to trick Reuters, which sent newsrooms everywhere to cover the crypto news that turned out to be the crypto ploy. Who has benefited? (New York Times, Gift link).
🧠 ‘Neuro grains‘could be the next brain-computer interfaces (Wired).
🐮 Scientists have potty trained cows hoping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by poop (CNET).
🚰 “ELI5: Why the water in bubbles Doesn’t it just seep out of the pores of the bladder skin? ”(r / explainlikeimfive).