If you missed all the crazy things that happened this week, we’re here with our weekly tech news roundup to tell you about it. This is a one-stop shop where we briefly talk about the biggest things that happened in the tech world this week.
We’ll start with headlines from Monday and cover the week. You know, the natural order. So here’s what was the first big thing that happened this week in tech.
Musk buys Twitter
Ah, the weed-smoking billionaire adds another jewel to his collection. From being told by the SEC toget his tweets approvedto being a Twitter board member, Elon Musk is on a roll. Right after thenews broke outon Monday, there was chatter about anedit button for Twitterthe next day.
From the days of social media platforms turning college students into billionaires, we now have billionaires buying social media. Look how the turntables have turned. Twitter also launched a newfeature that lets you exit a keyboard argument, so, good going Twitter!
Other than buying new toys, Musk also announced that Tesla’s own toy, theCybertruck will start selling in 2023. So now we have something more to look forward to from Tesla.
WWDC dates and iPhones
This week Apple also announced that theWWDC 2022 will be online, taking place from 6 to 10 June. We’re excited about iOS 16 and to see how it builds upon theiOS 15’s privacy features.
What’s more interesting though, is that iPhones are being made more repairable. Apple launched aself-service repair programlast year, but there are also speculations that Apple wants to startiPhone subscriptions. So Apple will probably make iPhones more repairable because it is going to be the one that has to repair those subscription phones.
The iPhone may be expensive, but close to90% of American teens prefer an iPhone. Not only do they have iPhones, but they’ll also buy iPhones in the future too. So if I were Apple, I wouldn’t be worried about future sales.
Fix your sh!t, or make a new emoji :D
Yeah, we have another report on the environment, and no, this isn’t good either. It’s a rather ‘hot’ take for our politicians and industries, but the IPCC report now sayswe have three years to fix the planet. If we don’t, then we can kiss our resources goodbye and plan how to live underwater.
Now unless we’re resurrecting Atlantis, IPCC’s report says we have to cut down greenhouse emissions. The report comes months before the Scotland Sustainability Summit in Glasgow, so we may see some steps taken there.
I’m sorry if this was a bit too depressing. But on the bright side, Unicode is accepting applications for emoji 16.0, so this is your chance tosubmit a new emojithat might get picked up by officials. However, be serious about the climate too, or else the bright side could become the unbearably hot side.
Samsung, TikTok, And Netflix’s Short-Ass
Samsung took the iPhone SE a little too seriously andrelaunched its Galaxy S20 FE in 2022. The S20 FE is a powerful phone, and with a new lease on software life, it’s a much better offering than the iPhone SE 3. Pretty much anything is a better offering than the 2022 iPhone SE at that price, but Samsung steals the show there.
Coming to TikTok, it turns out that it wascopying Instagrambefore it was the other way around. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company allegedly took Instagram users’ videos and posted them on their platform to test the waters. Well, what can we say, they had to come up with something original despite this.
Lastly, Netflix literally has a ‘short-ass’ movies tag. This is good. If you’re like me, trying to sneak into sleep watching a short film, this Netflix tag has your a#$ covered. However,how it came to beis an even better story. Click on the linked article to read that.
Weekly Tech News Roundup
Well, this week was an exciting one and pretty packed for the first iteration of our Fossbytes weekly tech news roundup. We saw how Google is trying to makesearches more human, Twitter is trying to make arguments more humane, and Meta is releasing anadversarial threat reportbecause, well, humans.
What we almost skipped is that someLG phones will get Android 12, which is good. We also missed theEpic Reality Scan appwhich can turn your phone’s photos into 3D models. And I was certainly not going to conclude it without theRussian food app data leak.
All in all, a pretty tight week and a pretty tight wrap-up. Do let us know your thoughts and recommendations about it in the comments. Have a good weekend!
