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Wireless charging, environmental disaster? Plus more tech news today
July 02, 2025
1. The wireless charging conundrum
There’s been a little bit of a stir around wireless charging recently. OneZero, in a collab with iFixit, kicked things off with a piece looking at exactly how inefficient wireless chargers are.
And it’s a problem:
So, what does it all mean?
- We asked, you told us: It was close, butthe Pixel 4a camera still trounced the iPhone SE(Android Authority).
3. Weird optionlets you access Xiaomi’s in-display fingerprint camera(Android Authority).
4.you may beta test Microsoft Xbox xCloudtoday! August 11, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate only, and you’ll need an Android phone as Apple continues to wall off the Xbox (Android Authority). On that note:Apple goes to war with the gaming industry(TechCrunch).
5.E Ink demos a folding e-readerthat can also take notes (The Verge).
6.Apple’s upcoming 5nm A14 Bionic chipsetwill apparently set new performance standards (notebookcheck.net).
7.Tim Cook is now a billionaire, but not the Jeff Bezos founder kind: it’s rare for any non-founder CEO to hit a billion, but this is Apple (The Verge).
8.NVIDIA teases August 31st event countdownahead of rumored RTX 3080 Ampere GPUs (The Verge).
- After three years,Google reintroduces Google Maps for Apple Watchacross the coming weeks (Ars Technica).
10.More wireless spectrum unleashed for 5G: The White House announces a plan to speed up the rollout of 5G, by opening up to auction 100 MHz of mid-band spectrum, previously allocated to the military (Wired).
- First drive:The new 2021 Polestar 2has a great cabin—and deep Android integration (Ars Technica).
12.Greed may be good when it comes to solar power: Researchers find focusing on finances gets more people to install solar power, because based on economics, more people should have solar panels (Ars Technica).
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