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Fortunately for me, we kick issues off with Samsung’s huge Unpacked occasion, launching three new telephones and teasing two — sure, two! — extra coming quickly.
Every little thing Samsung introduced, together with costs and launch dates (February 8 — I’ll prevent a click on), we collated right here, however it was largely a fallow yr for Galaxy S {hardware}, barring a considerably extra highly effective chip.
Whereas the Galaxy S25 Extremely et al. won’t thrill, Samsung managed to breadcrumb a number of units with no launch date. First, at its San Jose occasion, the corporate revealed its blended actuality headset in individual, lastly — even when it was only a functionless headset for photographs and gawping at.
Then there was the Galaxy S25 Edge — a tool I didn’t suppose existed. (And one thing that wasn’t proven at my satellite tv for pc occasion in London — we bought a not-great projection mapping model activation throughout London’s Thames river. Boo.)
Like Samsung did a yr in the past with its Galaxy Ring teaser, we bought a fleeting glimpse of the rumored slim Galaxy telephone, really referred to as the Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s slim, has two cameras and… that’s about all we all know. Bloomberg studies it is going to value lower than the S25 Extremely when it arrives later this yr.
After which there’s the mysterious teaser for some potential bifold gadget — see the screengrab above. This is able to be a foldable concertina, like units we’ve seen from Huawei. Samsung teased the show tech again at CES 2022 and subsequent commerce occasions. Is it now prepared?
Will the corporate’s foldables change into the brand new house for Samsung {hardware} innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold collection now really the brand new Galaxy Be aware?
— Mat Smith
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At present, in 1984
The primary Mac(intosh).
Apple demonstrated its first Macintosh pc in entrance of three,000 folks. Graphical computing on the Macintosh wasn’t as commercially profitable as Microsoft’s DOS and Home windows, however this was the primary profitable mass-market desktop private pc with a graphical consumer interface, built-in display screen and mouse. Sure, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed advert, 1984, additionally teased it.
Time to look at that advert once more.
President Trump and tech
The brand new chief bought straight to work.
It was a busy first week for President Trump.
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The Trump Administration now not lets asylum seekers make appointments with app
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Donald Trump pardons Silk Highway creator Ross Ulbricht
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Trump government order rescinds Biden’s AI framework
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Trump delays TikTok ban for no less than 75 days by way of government order
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President Trump withdraws the US from the Paris local weather settlement (once more)
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