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Gimbal tech in a smartphone, Instagram Shops, and more tech news today
June 14, 2025
1. Gimbals are built-in to flagships now?
Here’s something: radical stabilization tech looks like it’s headed from concept to flagship product for brighter photos and smoother videos.
So, it does seem like it’s coming to a real-world product, in the vivo X50 flagship,after videos were posted to Weibo, including this clip:
2.Google CEO Sundar Pichai says ‘hardware is hard’ in interview about Pixels, confirms hardware commitment including a tiny tiny hint about 2021 products (Android Authority).
- Galaxy Note 20:100x zoom is pointless, and it looks like Samsung might agree(Android Authority).
4.Chrome 83 for desktop introducing tons of new safety tools, including Safety Check (Android Authority).
5.Save $30 on AirPods Pro and more — Best AirPods dealsrounded up (Android Authority).
6.‘Apple Glass’ details have been apparently leaked, courtesy of Jon Prosser, and will reportedly cost $499 and work with prescriptions. Significant general details revealed, so much so it’s hard to believe, but Prosser has a track record? (AppleInsider).
- Significant:Facebook and Instagram roll out Shops, turning business profiles into storefronts. Key thing: Mark Zuckerberg has been reportedly personally invested in this, which takes it from an interesting idea to likely-to-be-important. But going all-in on Facebook has always been flirting with danger, given the complete lack of control you retain. Shopify’s involved as a partner, too (TechCrunch).
8.The Joe Rogan Experience goes exclusive to Spotify in a new deal, a move that is reverberating as the free/advertising-supported model of podcasts continues to turn towards walled gardens (TechCrunch).
- In Microsoft Office news out of Build 2020: it announced Lists, an Airtable-like new app (TechCrunch), and talked about its newFluid Office documents, being called Google Docs on steroids(The Verge). Plus,Microsoft has also released a new open source PowerToys Run launcher for Windows 10, which is like Apple’s macOS Spotlight tool,now available to download, and here’s thereadme(GitHub).
10.iFixit and right-to-repair groups fire shots at medical device manufacturers(Wired).
11.Mt. Everest visible from Kathmandu, Nepal for first time in living memory(r/interestingasfk).
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