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1. Apple's Biggest Launch Could The Biggest Tech Week Since 2007 Begin?
This is what this week looks like as what was once private at Apple, Microsoft and Sony is finally released:
- November 10th:: Apple's biggest keynote in years. Since the... iPad in 2010? Or even the 2007 iPhone? Huge milestone keynotes, but the move to Apple Silicon should be more than just a new MacBook with better battery life and a handy processor, the absolute ground floor of expectations.
- With Apple in control of the timeline, production of processors, and chipset design to get the most out of their software, it's going to be big. The real changes could come in the years to come, but this will be the marker in the ground.
- Remember, we're expecting three new MacBooks including a 13-inch MacBook Air, a 13-inch MacBook Pro, and possibly a 16-inch MacBook Pro.
- Now wonder if Apple Silicon will change the PC industry towards the arm, as Apple appears to be completely overriding x64 compared to the world of PC makers. The main manufacturers are, of course, Windows first with some arm-based chipsets that are more than just experiments - we've seen Microsoft with its Surface Pro X and Acer's Spin 7 as just two.
- Also on the arm front, November 10th is the annual MediaTek SummitThe Arm chipmaker is set to talk about its next Dimensity CPU and processor specifically for ChromeOS. Not much more on that yet. (This is about 1/100 of the other news if we look back on history, but it's still important this week.)
- And the other major November 10th Entry is the Microsoft Xbox Series X and Series S. are published. Unlike Sony, retailers offer the console in-store. Other people should see their pre-orders arrive at Unbox if they haven't got them delivered like a bunch of lucky ones (Reddit) yet. There will also be unhappy people with their noses pressed to the windows. Sorry for her.
- November 12th: The PlayStation 5 release datewhere all of that happens with the Xbox too, but with Sony's newest and greatest, plus Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the updated adventure that's ready to start, even though it's not quite the brand new exclusive blockbuster. The PlayStation 5 (Digital Foundry) reviews, published right after last week's Friday newsletter, were greeted with just a few nits in the next generation, while the DualSense controller is universally popular. It will be fun.
- At the end of the week the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Mini will be available in stores immediately November 13th.
Report 2: Samsung beat Apple in the US market for the first time in three years in the third quarter of 2020, with the deck stacked a bit towards Samsung. Q4 should be interesting. (Android Authority).
3. I wrote The Weekly Authority, a new, fresh newsletter on Android Authority that covers the week from 10,000 feet away, plus a deep dive or bigger story. This week: the 5nm chipset war of 2021 that will be great for smartphones and you (Android Authority).
4. With this in mind: Why a Snapdragon 875 Lite makes perfect sense (Android Authority).
5. OnePlus 8 Pro revised: The good and bad six months later (Android Authority).
6. OnePlus Buds Z-Test: Cheaper and better than the OnePlus Buds. Wait, cheaper and better? That never happens (Android Authority).
7. Sony launches Airpeak drone business to support "video artists" (Engadget).
8. Apple discontinues new (read: additional) business with main supplier Pegatron after violations of labor rules in connection with a student employee program (Bloomberg) were discovered.
9. Virgin Hyperloop reaches an important milestone: the first human passenger test (The Verge).
10. Cory Doctorow gives an incredible overview of the evils of the HP inkjet printer company. Oh, you know inkjet printers are bad. You didn't know exactly how bad it was: like HP's latest "Free Ink for Life" deal, which turned into "..." just 12 months later, you pay us 0.99 every month for the rest of your life US dollars, or your printer has stopped working 'Plan' (EFF.org)
11. The "most famous paradox in physics" is nearing its end: Physicists have proven that information escapes a black hole, exactly what black holes shouldn't. What does that mean? (Wired).
12. Going to the Sahara to count trees sounds rough. Instead, deep learning techniques identified trees from NASA's satellite imagery, of which 1.8 billion were counted (WeForum).
13. This is absolutely not 6G: "China is sending the world's first 6G test satellite into orbit" (BBC). 6G will be a standard established by 3GPP. What they'll be doing everywhere, sometime in the next 5-10 years. Whatever this is from China, with high frequency terahertz waves (not GHz, THz), 6G is not what it will be. It's interesting, but not 6G. OK cool.
14. In honor of Alex Trebek, the nicest man on TV, what's your favorite danger? Moment or memory? (r / askreddit).
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