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What to make of a cheaper Google Nest with Soli radar, and more tech news today
June 01, 2025
1. New Google Nest Thermostat with Soli
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is usually hot on the heels of Apple news. Or, is busy talking about the Los Angles Lakers. But he had aGoogle scoop late yesterday: the company looks close to releasing a new, cheaper Nest Thermostat.
Anyway, Google is stepping in again to make Nest great for more people:
- From yesterday,here’s what came of the Samsung Galaxy F41 launch. It does look like the M-series with better cameras for now, but here’s hoping the F-series grows to be something more (Android Authority).
3.Google Pixel 4a 5G unboxing and hands on: The Goldilocks Google phone? (Android Authority).
- POCOconfirms ‘true successor’ to POCO F1, addresses rebranding (Android Authority).
5.Black Friday vs Amazon Prime Day — should you wait to shop?Comparing to see which is best for your shopping (Android Authority).
6.PocketBook Color review: Is color E ink finally ready? (The Verge).
7.Microsoft is bringing xCloud to iOS via a web solution. Can’t have an app? It’s browser-based to beat the App Store problems (The Verge)
8.Apple is extending some Apple TV+ substhrough February 2021 for free, which is either generous or needed because Apple TV+ isn’t going that well. Hm. (Android Authority).
9.AMD revealed its new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 processors, including the ‘world’s best gaming CPU’. Arriving Nov 5 (The Verge).
- If AMD’s big Zen 3 claim is true,Intel’s in trouble(Gizmodo).
11. The14 juiciest quotesfrom the House Antitrust report (Wired).
- There are two games that are pretty good now: Fallout 76, more recently, and No Man’s Sky, which took longer but has been pretty solid now for a long time and is free on Game Pass.Here’s why Fallout 76 is now good. (Kotaku).
13.NASA gets ready to land on asteroid Bennuas new studies confirm it is a rich source of carbon (ABC).
14.Driverless Waymo rides are opening to the public. Elon Musk isn’t so impressed, which prompted a little back-and-forth on Twitter (Jalopnik). The Waymo going public news itself could’ve been the top news of the day, but it’s not happening for a few weeks yet, and I’m waiting to see it from the public perspective.
15. “Which apocalypse would youlike to see end humanity?” (r/askreddit).
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