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\nYour tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter, for Wednesday, July 8.
It\u2019s official: Samsung has announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, at 10AM ET, a fully virtual and streamed event, of course, which will see a different approach to Samsung\u2019s usual stadium-like events held in Brooklyn, New York City, and Berlin before that.
2. What\u2019s stopping Spotify from being the perfect music app? A Spotify cloud music locker, for uploading your own tracks. Couldn\u2019t agree more with this opinion (Android Authority).
3. There\u2019s a new gaming phone on the horizon from Lenovo, called the Lenovo Legion. Apparent new benchmark leaks reveal it\u2019s very fast, thanks to the supposed and as-yet-non-existent Snapdragon 865 Plus SoC and its GPU benefits. Hmm! (notebookcheck.net).
4. Walmart Plus may launch in July to compete with Amazon Prime: $98 yearly, unlimited same-day grocery delivery, fuel discounts, and potentially a \u2018Scan & Go service\u2019 that would allow checkouts in Walmart stores without waiting in line (Android Authority). Also: Uber launches grocery delivery in Latin America, Canada with the US to follow (Reuters).
5. Apple is working on QR Code payments for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals (9to5Mac).
6. Ad boycott leaders say meeting with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg was \u2018a disappointment\u2019, and the boycott, now with 800 companies on board, will continue (Engadget). Also: \u2018Too little, too late\u2019: Facebook\u2019s Oversight Board won\u2019t launch until \u2018late fall\u2019 (TechCrunch).
7. Alphabet\u2019s Loon balloons provide their first commercial internet service in Kenya: 35 hot air balloons will provide 4G LTE at about a 20km elevation. Loon says June testing saw speeds of 18.9Mbps down, 4.74Mbps up, latency of 19ms (Loon).
8. The rise and fall of Adobe Flash: \u201cBefore Flash Player sunsets this December, we talk its legacy with those who built it\u201d (Ars Technica).
9. \u201cAbout 8 months ago, I got a handwritten letter through the mail on a blank piece of paper with one sentence: \u201cFile a FOIA with USPS for [Long Life Vehicles] truck fires.\u201d 4,000 pages of documents later, here\u2019s the story:\u201d Hundreds of USPS mail trucks are spontaneously catching fire, seemingly because they\u2019re 30-years-old and the US Post has no money to replace them (Vice).
10. The next SpaceX launch of Starlink satellites happens today just before midday ET. Live stream on YouTube (spaceflightnow.com).
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