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Sony’s new $5,000 hologram display, and more tech news you need to know today
August 11, 2025
1. Sony is trying to bring holograms to the world (again)
Not for the first time, a major industry player is working on making holograms happen.
Sony’s new idea is a $5,000 15.6-inch display, built on a metal wedge, with stereoscopic 3D.
What it does:
2.Samsung mocks Apple’s lack of charger, but how long until it backpedals? (Android Authority).
3.Google is finally going to close out Hangouts sometime in 2021. Chat will become Hangouts. Chat is part of Gmail. Hangouts disappears. Got it? (Android Authority).
4.Google Search is getting new AI toolsto decipher your terrible spelling (The Verge).
5.Early iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro AnTuTu benchmarksare at odds with Apple’s claims for the A14 Bionic. Better, yes, but not 50% better? Will wait for more official benchmarks (notebookcheck.net)
- This is really interesting:Microsoft will give GameStop a share of Xbox’s digital revenues, which is, I think, unprecedented. And proves that physical retail is important enough that even Microsoft feels compelled to support it. We don’t know the magnitude of GameStop’s cut, either. (Ars Technica).
7.Sony gives in-depth look at PlayStation 5 UI in new video. 11 minutes of menus would normally not be interesting, but Sony’s new interface is much busier than the sparse PS4 (The Verge).
8. Twitter updates its‘Hacked Materials’ policyafter NY Post controversy (Engadget).
“I cannot in good faith recommend this Japanese desk tent”. The video is the kind of deadpan dry humor I needed (Gizmodo).
There’s “an email to a former board member” doing the rounds of VC Twitter and it is excruciating to read (Twitter).
Thedire working conditions for Ring’s call center employeesin the Philippines (NBC).
12. New Faithfulmight not survive global warming(Earther).
13. “What’s older than we think?” (r/askreddit).
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