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Archives for June 2024

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Twitch is giving streamers some handy new tools.

Streamers will be able to drop in on each other with Stream Together, clips are getting a more optimized creation flow, and the platform’s enhanced broadcasting feature will soon be available for all streamers to try, among other things.

Twitch is also making a “Streamer Achievement Program. Streamers will get statues after their channel reaches certain milestones for hours watched.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra might soften its image.

Good news for anyone who is tired of the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s sharp corners digging into their palms: Samsung might round them off again for the S25 series.

That’s according to tipster Ice Universe, anyway, who posted the below about the change.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
iPhone 7 owners still have time to claim part of a microphone lawsuit settlement.

If you owned an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus between September 16th, 2016 and January 3rd, 2023 and met certain requirements, you may be eligible to claim part of a settlement after a class action lawsuit over issues with the Apple devices’ microphones.

The deadline was originally June 3rd, 2024, but it was extended earlier this month to July 3rd instead.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple Silicon exec joins Rain AI to develop new hardware.

Bloomberg reports that Rain AI, which has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of its backers, has hired Apple chip exec Jean-Didier Allegrucci to oversee the development of new AI processors that are supposed to reduce power consumption with “in-memory compute.”

[Allegrucci] has worked and led silicon teams across a broad range of applications, including CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, ISPs, SoCs, and many others....At Apple, he oversaw the development of more than 30 SoCs used for flagship products, including iPhones, Macs, iPads, Apple Watch, and many more.

Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Qualcomm is working on easing the pain of Android updates.

Speaking to Android Authority, Qulacomm’s head of handsets, Chris Patrick, says that the company will make announcements later this year about how it plans to help “keep Android phones closer to up to date.”

While definitely improved in recent years, updates are still slow to come for some OEMs — and plenty of budget phones only see one or two OS updates. Say more, Qualcomm.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple might try “electrically induced adhesive debonding” on iPhone batteries.

The Information reports the reversible adhesive could be tried on one iPhone 16 and potentially every iPhone 17, replacing the stretchy pull tabs seen in every teardown.

iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens called it a “cool idea,” even if we’ll need to see how it works in practice. Here’s a demo from adhesives giant Tesa, which is also developing approaches using lasers, heat, solvents, and magnets.

Tesa demo of electical “debonding on demand” adhesive that unsticks with no residue after an electrical charge is applied for 60 seconds.
“Debonding on Demand”
Image: tesa
The Verge’s summer ‘in’ / ‘out’ list

Just having fun while we make this website.

Mia Sato