Samsung’s new telephones will virtually definitely be the most well-liked Android telephones of 2025. They’ll in all probability even be among the many greatest Android telephones of 2025. And but the Unpacked occasion this week felt like one of the vital boring telephone launches… ever. Are we coming into a brand new section of the smartphone trade, by which firms principally simply launch the identical factor time and again? Wait a second: have we been in that section for some time now?
After that, we take a deep breath and wade into the primary week of the brand new Trump administration. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner explains what’s occurring with Stargate, and why a $500 billion AI data-center plan is being introduced within the White Home. We discuss The US Digital Service going full DOGE, the controversy over Elon Musk’s salute, and the newest deeply complicated updates on the TikTok ban. TikTok is again! For now. Perhaps not for lengthy. However perhaps for good? We’ve obtained 70 or so days to determine it out.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we focus on on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Samsung:
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