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Ahead of the P40 launch, here’s the good tech news you need to know today

July 06, 2025

1. Good news, at last!

With the P40 series launch in just over half an hour or so, let’s take a look at some uplifting news before we get into the nuts and bolts of that new flagship from HUAWEI.

Coronavirus has slashed global air pollution: this interactive map shows how(Earther).

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The world’s wind power capacity is up by a fifth after record year, adding 60+ gigawatts of generation, with record growth for offshore windfarms and “a boom in onshore projects in the US and China” (The Guardian).

Social distancing is slowing not only COVID-19, but other diseases too(Quartz).

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Finally, a must see:Here’s what it looks like from space when everything stops(Bloomberg).

Good tech news abounds in the rest of the day’s links below.

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2.Leaked OnePlus 8 Pro press render leaves little to imagination(Android Authority).

3.Google Pixel Buds 2 pass through FCC, coming soon(Android Authority).

  1. Apple’s made a decision for Safari that will affect offline web apps, in order to promote even more privacy. Safari will now delete a site’s local storage on a device after seven days of inactivity, which developers argued would actually harm privacy and not help users at all as it’s now a solution to save users repeated login hassles.The debate gets into the thick of it here, including an update from Apple which walks it back a bit, but lots of questions still up in the air and lots of anger (ar.al).

5.Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs. Dell does it, the Mac does not (The Verge).

6.European mobile carriers will share location data to track COVID-19 spread: promises to protect privacy (the data will be deleted once the crisis is over), but concerns remain (Reuters).

7.88 out of top 200 US cities have seen internet speeds decline this past week, three cities by more than 40% (TechCrunch).

8.What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis: 100 staffers of TripActions shared a call with their CEO. They were all fired on the call, together, on video (Protocol).

9.Plex makes live TV free for three monthsvia a blog announcement titled “Ok. So Here We Are” (Plex).

10.A hacker stole and leaked the Xbox Series X graphics source code, quite the tale behind this (Engadget).

11.NYC has run out of dogs and cats to foster(Bloomberg). The good news just doesn’t stop!

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