???? After a long hiatus, Xiaomi’s innovative Mi Mix line is coming back next week — and it will have a liquid camera lens to switch focus types (Android Authority)
???? Xiaomi phone sales boomed in 2020 at Huawei’s expense (Android Authority)
???? OnePlus 9 vs 9 Pro vs 9R: Which is right for you? (Android Authority)
⚽ Rocket League Sideswipe brings car soccer to your phone, on Android and iOS, coming later in 2021 (Android Authority)
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???? LG’s 2021 OLED TV lineup starts at $1,299 — the new artistic G1 Gallery series starts with a 55-inch G1 for $2,199 (Engadget)
???? Apple reportedly bans facial scans of employees, but not factory workers, as surveillance camera use increases and background checks on factory workers are required (CNET)
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???? “What would happen if all 7 billion people screamed at once?” (r/askreddit).
March 24 marked 20 years of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system that offered a badly-needed upgrade to its OS problems.
Today, 17 versions and major architecture changes later, it’s called macOS.
What’s cool for this 20th anniversary is that people involved with the development of Mac OS X are tweeting funny little tidbits.
Here’s Imran Chaudhri:
- “in 1995, while interning at apple, i bought a NeXT cube for $150 at stanford surplus
while designing mac os X with steve, he liked to tell us how the NeXT was better
so i started bringing in my cube to win arguments by showing him that things weren’t as good as he remembered
this happened so often that it got to the point where if he walked in and saw the cube in the room, he’d just let it go
still the best $150 i’ve spent
happy 20 years mac os x!”
Cheers,
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
PS. Windows XP turns 20 in October.
