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Vergecast: Windows 11 leaks, RCS encryption, and this week in antitrust policy

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. In this episode, the show is split into three sections. First, Nilay and Dieter talk to Verge senior editor Tom Warren about this… Read more

Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series

The Honor 50 series will be able to ship with Google’s apps and services, Honor officially announced today as it launched the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro in China. In a statement, Honor says its phones will go through Google’s security review and that “Honor devices will therefore have the option to have Google… Read more

How to watch Ubisoft Forward

Ubisoft Forward is the publisher / developer’s livestreamed event where we’ll see updates to preexisting Ubisoft titles, as well as announcements of brand-new games. For E3 2021, Ubisoft is teasing the unveiling of its next Rainbow Six title, formerly known as Rainbow Six Quarantine (good move changing that name, Ubisoft). It also plans to show… Read more

iOS 15 gives you better tools to fight the firehose of notifications — with a catch

Apple’s iOS 15 preview earlier this week gave us a look at an important new feature coming to your iPhone’s notifications: help. A few new tools may act as a life preserver for those of us up to our eyeballs in a sea of notifications every day, regulating which apps and people are allowed to… Read more

First official images of Honor 50 look weirdly like Huawei’s P50

Honor has released a couple of official images for its upcoming 50 series smartphone via its Weibo page and Twitter. The images focus on the rear of the phone, showing an eye-catching pair of circular camera bumps. The Honor 50 series is currently due to be announced on June 16th. Amidst a sea of square… Read more

Huawei announces HarmonyOS update for its smartphones

Huawei has announced that its HarmonyOS operating system is coming to its smartphones via a forthcoming update. Huawei’s consumer business CEO Richard Yu says the company is updating around 100 of its devices globally to the new operating system, which also includes tablets like the MatePad Pro. In theory, it’s a big change from its… Read more

This year’s Pokémon Go Fest is also a music festival

Pokémon Go Fest is just a few weeks away, and this year, the annual event is also going to be a music festival, developer Niantic announced on Thursday. During the event, you’ll pick one of two Pikachu — Pikachu Rock Star or Pikachu Pop Star, which you can see in the image at the top… Read more

HTC Vive Pro 2 review: The ultimate virtual reality experience

(Pocket-lint) – The HTC Vive Pro 2 has arrived – and you could easily be forgiven for thinking it’s virtually the same VR headset that the company released back in 2018. That’s because outwardly it hasn’t changed much from the original, aside from some colour changes on the front faceplate. However, under the hood things… Read more

Amnesty International calls for Google to halt cloud business in Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International is teaming up with 38 other human rights groups and individuals to call for a halt to Google’s plans to set up an enterprise cloud business in Saudi Arabia because of concerns over the country’s human rights track record. The joint statement — signed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Media Matters for… Read more

Tom’s Hardware at 25: 1996’s Best Tech vs 2021

In honor of our 25th anniversary, we look back at the best components and devices of 1996 and compare them to their counterparts from today.

Senators roll out bipartisan data privacy bill

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Klobuchar (D-MN) has teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC), to reintroduce the Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer… Read more

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 778G chipset will put premium features in midrange phones

Qualcomm has announced a new 700-series chipset for mobile devices: the Snapdragon 778G 5G. It will start appearing in premium midrange phones from manufacturers including Motorola, Xiaomi, Realme, Honor, Oppo, and iQOO in the next few months, bringing with it some video capture and AI capabilities borrowed from the Snapdragon 888, the current chipset of… Read more

Xbox is partnering with the studio behind the world’s biggest mobile games

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios is teaming up with Tencent’s TiMi Studios, developer of the wildly successful mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings. According to a Google Translated version of the announcement from TiMi, the two companies have formed a “strategic partnership” to create “game content,” but it’s unclear exactly what that… Read more

Leaked Honor 50 image confirms earlier dual-ring design reports

The Honor 50 smartphone is expected in June and today we spotted a leaked image of the phone, suggesting the dual-ring design we reported back in April is real. The second circle will actually host two shooters, one of them with a periscope lens. While this isn’t the first time we’re seeing this two-circle design,… Read more

Honor Play 5 series officially coming on May 18

Honor is expected to bring its new Play 5 series of phones and the company has now revealed when will the launch take place – May 18. Next Tuesday we’ll see a phone with four cameras on the back, a waterdrop notch on the front and apparently an OLED screen since the official poster reveals… Read more