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Google Streetview uploads, HBO Max blockbusters, and more tech news

July 20, 2025

1. Now anyone* can add to Google Maps Street View

Street View is absolutely my favorite thing for figuring out where I’m going and what it may look like, if I think I’m going to get lost in the last few hundred yards.

Anyway, minor details aside, the news is that Google is opening up Street View additions to anyone with an Android phone right now — or at least anyone that has an Android phone withARCore.

New Google Street View feature live image fom Japan

What it means:

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2.Samsung appears to have three foldables in 2021: the Galaxy Z Flip 2, Galaxy Z Fold 3, and Galaxy Z Fold lite model, from reports (Android Authority).

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3.Every single 2021 movie scheduled from Warner Bros. will debut first on HBO Max, as well as in cinemas. That roster includes Dune, Matrix 4, and Suicide Squad 2 (Android Authority).

4.Razer’s new Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro earbuds add noise cancelling, and keep the bass (Android Authority).

5.Royole’s FlexPai 2has been given a hands-on, and while it aims to be a much better folding phone, that wasn’t hard given the struggles of the original. It’s still super expensive, still looks a bit awkward (The Verge).

6.Razer’s Tomahawk modular gaming PCis finally a real product, but pricing makes it pretty niche (The Verge).

7.Twitter dumps threaded replies, ditches experimental twttr app (CNET).

8.DJI’s cinematic FPV droneleaks in photos (Engadget).

  1. Stripe has rolled out a new feature and tool:Stripe Treasury, which aims to offer businesses the ability to offer banking solutions for customers via useful APIs. Now, you say, why is this very business detail here? Well, it may be the backbone of much of what we see for easier money handling on platforms, soon enough (Stratechery).

10.US states plan to sue Facebookas soon as next week (Reuters).

11.Prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebrusays Google fired her (Wired).

  1. The exact moment of thehuge Arecibo telescope collapse, captured on video(NSF.gov).

13.All the stars above us are moving, as this ESA animation shows (Twitter).

  1. ELI5: “In regions that are “100% powered by renewable energy”,what happens to the traditional power plants?” (r/explainlikeimfive).

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