The Weekly Authority: 📱 Pixel 7 Professional leaks

⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority e-newsletter that breaks down the highest Android and tech information from the week. The two hundredth version right here, with Pixel 7 Professional information, Samsung’s inventory downside, a peek on the ASUS ROG Telephone 6, and far more…

☀️ It was the June solstice on Tuesday, which implies summer time is formally, astronomically right here — and Scotland has been seeing a heatwave (which implies about 24 levels centigrade for us!)

Fashionable information this week

Google:

Samsung:

Poco:

Nothing:

Apple:

Amazon:

Area:

Elsewhere:

• Asus ROG Telephone 6 pictures, specs seem on-line: Right here’s what we all know forward of the July 5 launch.
• ZTE Axon 40 Extremely launched within the US: A flagship with under-display digicam.
• And Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus launched: Its energy stage is (technically) over 9000 — telephones with the Dimensity 9000 Plus set to launch in Q3 2022.
• In the meantime, religious successor to Important Telephone is up for preorder, ships early 2023.
• Plus Xiaomi Mi Band 7 goes world for $52.
• Enormous swaths of the web have been down Tuesday throughout a Cloudflare outage, together with Medium, Discord, Fitbit, Peloton, and DoorDash, however issues have been again up and operating inside a few hours.
• Meta goals to ultimately develop a VR headset that may cross a “visible Turing Take a look at,” i.e. create a digital world indistinguishable from our personal — and we obtained a glimpse at future generations of VR shows from Meta, however you’ll by no means be capable to attempt any of them.
• Instagram can now confirm your age along with your face with new AI know-how.
• And Elon Musk continues to delay Twitter buyout, and has three the reason why.
• Telegram Premium launched: Right here’s all the things it’s essential know.
• Additionally: Reddit celebrated its seventeenth birthday on Thursday.
• Senators name for a standard charger normal within the US.
• As cryptocurrency tumbles, costs for GPUs proceed to fall, nice information for avid gamers, however extra attention-grabbing for large knowledge crunching and machine studying.
• In the meantime, EVs now common over $60,000 as Tesla, Rivian, Ford elevate costs.
• And spray-on plant coating may change wasteful plastic meals wrap, nevertheless it may be some time earlier than we see it in use.
• Lastly, now you can use your Chromebook to shortly entry your telephone’s photos.

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It appears unusual to suppose that this week in 1946 noticed the primary supply of mail by air. A jet aircraft took off from Common Electrical Air Analysis Lab in Schenectady, New York, on June 22 that yr, as a part of an Military Air Pressure demo, carrying a small amount of mail to Washington DC and Chicago.

We are saying unusual, as today we’re on the point of receiving parcel deliveries by drone. Final week, Amazon introduced that prospects in Lockeford, CA, could be among the many first to obtain drone deliveries later this yr.

• That is the primary time Amazon’s made drone deliveries out there to the general public.
• Drones may have the flexibility to fly past line of sight, which means they’ll function past the conventional sight of the drone pilot.
• The drones will drop deliveries at houses of consumers within the city — which has a inhabitants of 4,000 —for residents who stay inside 4 miles of the deliberate drone facility.

These are larger than your common drone although:

• Amazon’s drones are 6.5 toes large, 4 toes tall, and may ship packages weighing as much as 5lbs.
• It prices Amazon $146k to construct the present technology of drone, although it plans to chop this to $60k for the subsequent technology.
• The present technology of drone has a 5km vary, however the subsequent technology may triple that to 15km.

The scale of those drones leads many individuals to ask, how protected are drone deliveries?

Drone supply security

Not all residents of Lockeford are happy on the information. Some say that drones are an invasion of their privateness. Others are apprehensive they might spook livestock.

• Amazon says residents’ suggestions will assist form the Prime Air service and future scaling.
• However are they proper to be involved?
• As of Might 2022, Amazon had eight drone crashes previously yr, with one beginning a brush hearth in Oregon.
• This has reportedly led to clashes with FAA inspectors after Amazon supposedly moved crash proof and was sluggish handy over knowledge.
• Up to now, drones have injured folks — in 2015, a images drone knocked a lady unconscious on the Seattle Satisfaction Parade, and this was a lot smaller than Amazon’s drones, weighing below 3lbs.
• Analysis carried out by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State College workforce reported that take a look at drone fashions weighing over 15lbs had the next than 50% threat of inflicting severe head and neck accidents in the event that they fell on folks.

However there are logistics points to contemplate too:

• There’s no protected touchdown space for packages: porches are lined, there are sometimes pets in again yards, and mailboxes are inaccessible to drones.
• Choices may embody putting in a drone supply pad or delivering to a safe “good locker” that the recipient accesses by way of code.

To not point out safety:

• Amazon might want to guarantee its drones are impervious to hackers, not solely to stop theft, but in addition to make sure there’s no threat to property, folks, and even different plane.
• If drones are hacked or malfunction and fall from the sky, their dimension and weight may pose a severe threat.

See additionally: The very best drones you should purchase in 2022

Are drones saving Amazon cash?

It at present prices Amazon from round $4.50-$5.50 to ship a bundle by way of third-party supply companions, or $3.47 per bundle by way of its personal logistics community

• Supply by drone by way of Prime Air will price $63 per bundle in 2025, in line with inside projections seen by Enterprise Insider.
• However Amazon’s going for scale right here and plans to strip again this price as extra areas are added and the variety of drops to prospects will increase.

So are drones the way forward for e-commerce supply? If Amazon’s preliminary rollout is profitable, then you may be receiving drone deliveries prior to you suppose.

Tech Calendar

• June 26-July 3: Summer time Video games Carried out Fast
• June 28: HTC Log In To The Future launch occasion (Metaverse telephone?)
• July 5: Asus ROG Telephone 6 launch @ 8 AM ET
• July 12: Nothing Telephone 1 launch @ 4 PM BST (11 AM ET)
• July 12-13: Amazon Prime Day
• July 13: Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Professional and Galaxy Tab Lively 4 Professional launch
• July 19: Stray lands on PS5, PS4, PC
• July 28: Pixel 6a launch
• August 10 (TBC): Samsung Unpacked? (new Galaxy foldables, Galaxy Watch 5 collection?)

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