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- Snapdragon 865+ Arrives to Power a New Wave of Gaming Phones
Qualcomm's 865+ chip bumps clock speeds and GPU performance for the next round of Android gaming phones.
- SpaceX Notches Its 13th Falcon 9 Launch of the Year
SpaceX flew its 13th Falcon 9 mission of 2020, sending up Starlink satellites on a five-time-flown booster.
- Samsung's Virtual Unpacked Drops Five New Galaxy Devices
Samsung's first fully virtual Unpacked event unveiled the Note20, Note20 Ultra, Z Fold2, Watch3, Buds Live, and Tab S7 lineup.
- NEOWISE Is Fading Fast — Catch It Now or Wait 6,800 Years
Comet NEOWISE has dimmed from a naked-eye spectacle to a binoculars-only target, and the window to see it is closing.
- Which Remote-Work Habits Will Outlast the Pandemic for Dev Teams
Zoom, Slack, and GitHub usage keeps climbing as engineering teams go fully remote — here's what's likely to stick around.
- Google's Pixel 4a Just Made $349 Phones Interesting Again
Google unveils the $349 Pixel 4a with a Snapdragon 730G, 5.81-inch OLED display, and a camera reviewers already call the best under $400.
- Crew Dragon Comes Home: Demo-2 Ends With a Splash
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed down off Pensacola with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the first crewed splashdown since Apollo-Soyuz.
- GPT-3's Private Beta Has Developers Buzzing
OpenAI's invite-only API for GPT-3 is flooding Twitter with demos of code, poetry, and chatbots generated from plain-English prompts.
- Samsung Sets August 5 for Its Biggest Unpacked Yet
Samsung's invites are out for an August 5 Unpacked event expected to reveal the Note 20, Z Fold 2, Watch 3, Buds Live, and Tab S7.
- Perseverance Lifts Off: NASA's Next Mars Rover Is On Its Way
NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter launched to Mars today aboard a ULA Atlas V, bound for Jezero Crater.
- Why ARM Laptops Suddenly Look Interesting
Apple's move to Apple Silicon has put ARM-based laptops back in the spotlight, and the promise of better battery life is hard to ignore.
- Get Ready: The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Next Month
The 2020 Perseids are ramping up toward a mid-August peak with dark skies and forecasts of 50-75 meteors an hour.
- Pressure to ban TikTok in the US keeps escalating
CFIUS scrutiny and talk of a forced ByteDance divestiture show the US moving closer to real action against TikTok.
- The Medium Locks In as an Xbox Series X Launch Exclusive
Microsoft's showcase confirmed Bloober Team's dual-reality horror game The Medium as a launch-window Xbox Series X exclusive.
- Comet NEOWISE Fades After Its Closest Pass by Earth
NEOWISE made its closest approach to Earth on July 23 and is now dimming — your last easy chance to see it is closing fast.
- ASUS ROG Phone 3 Lands in India with a 144Hz Display
ASUS brings the gaming-focused ROG Phone 3 to India with a 144Hz AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 865 Plus.
- China Sends Tianwen-1 to Mars, Betting on Orbiter, Lander, and Rover in One Shot
China launched its first fully domestic Mars mission today, packing an orbiter, lander, and rover into a single spacecraft.
- Developers Start Building on Top of GPT-3
Since OpenAI's private beta opened, devs are shipping chatbots, SQL generators, and code tools on GPT-3 — and arguing about what it actually means.
- OnePlus Nord Launches, Aiming Squarely at the Affordable-Flagship Crowd
OnePlus officially launched the Nord today, packing Snapdragon 765G, a 90Hz display, and quad cameras into a mid-range price.
- GPT-3 Dazzles Its First Private-Beta Testers
OpenAI's 175-billion-parameter model is quietly blowing minds in a private API beta, with testers posting viral demos of code, prose, and dialogue.
- Hope Rises: The UAE Launches the Arab World's First Mars Mission
The UAE's Hope orbiter launched atop a Japanese H-IIA rocket, kicking off the Arab world's first interplanetary mission and this July's Mars launch trio.
- A First Look at What's Coming in Python 3.9
Python 3.9 hit feature-complete beta in May, and the changes are small but genuinely useful for everyday code.
- Vivo's X50 Series Bets Big on a Gimbal in Your Pocket
Vivo's newly launched X50 Pro swaps standard OIS for a micro-gimbal stabilization system aimed at smoother handheld video.
- Solar Orbiter Spots Tiny 'Campfires' Dotting the Sun's Surface
ESA and NASA release Solar Orbiter's first images, revealing miniature flares called 'campfires' that may help explain the Sun's mysterious hot corona.
- Twitter Just Had Its Worst Security Day in Years
A phone-based social engineering attack let hackers hijack roughly 130 verified Twitter accounts to run a bitcoin scam.
- DDR5 Is Official: JEDEC Locks In the Next Memory Standard
JEDEC published the DDR5 SDRAM standard today, setting up faster, lower-power memory for the next wave of CPUs and servers.
- Solar Orbiter closes in on the Sun for its first big reveal
ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter made its first close pass in mid-June, and its first imagery is due for release later this month.
- Streaming Just Overtook Cable in America, and It Only Took a Pandemic
New reports show more Americans now watch streaming TV than traditional cable, a milestone pulled forward by months of lockdown.
- Three Countries, One Launch Window: The Mars Traffic Jam of Summer 2020
The UAE, China, and NASA are all racing to launch Mars missions within about two weeks of each other this July.
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 Plus Breaks the 3GHz Barrier
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 865 Plus hits 3.1GHz on its Prime core and adds a faster GPU and Wi-Fi 6E support.