The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, July 20

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S2 is thinnest and lightest yet

Samsung said Monday that its new Android tablets go on sale next month and the lighter, trimmed down products will offer consumers an alternative to Apple’s iPad Air 2. There are 9.7-inch and 8-inch models with a 2048 by 1536 pixel Super AMOLED screen; both come with a fingerprint scanner, along with Samsung’s eight-core chip, which has two quad-core processors, one running at 1.9GHz, the other at 1.3 GHz.

Some drones deliver medicine, others interfere with firefighters

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