It has been an enormous week for tech information, with Apple’s WWDC happening and a raft of massive bulletins in the gaming world.
Missed all of it? By no means concern – as a result of you’ll be able to compensate for it by scrolling down for our helpful recaps of the week’s seven biggest tech information stories.
And when you’re all up to the mark with that, remember to additionally take a look at our picks for the 7 new motion pictures and TV reveals to observe this weekend.
7. Xreal instructed us extra about Venture Aura
We already knew Xreal’s Venture Aura glasses would convey Android XR options to Xreal’s lineup, however we didn’t know an excessive amount of about the {hardware} itself. Now we do.
For a begin, the gadget will apparently boast a 70-degree discipline of view – which is way bigger than the FOV discovered on the 57-degree Xreal One Professional and which can give the Venture Aura glasses an enormous digital display.
It’ll even be tethered to a compute puck which can run Android XR utilizing a Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, although the glasses themselves will nonetheless have a “modified” X1 processor.
The glasses will not land till someday in 2026, however after they do that pair of Android XR specs may very well be one thing particular.
6. Garmin discovered its Apple Watch Extremely 2 rival
Shock! Garmin has revealed the Garmin Venu X1, an “ultrathin” smartwatch with an enormous 2-inch AMOLED show and as much as eight days of battery life.
The brand new mannequin packs 32GB of inner reminiscence, presumably for on-watch music, plus Garmin’s up to date Elevate v5 heart-rate sensor, most just lately used on the Garmin Forerunner 570 and 970.
Sadly the Garmin Venu X1 would not come low-cost, costing $799.99 / £679.99 / AU$1,499. We’ll be testing it as quickly as attainable to see if it justifies that price ticket.
5. New Bose earbuds have been cleared for launch
The most effective noise-cancelling earbuds you should purchase proper now are made by Bose (which is sensible – the firm created the first ever lively noise cancelling headphones), and proper now we’d counsel not shopping for them. Why? As a result of there is a newer model incoming, and Bose says they’ll be even higher.
The Bose QuietComfort Extremely Earbuds 2nd Gen will launch later this summer time with a price ticket of $299 – which is round £220 or AU$460, though these are guesses since pricing and availability for these areas has but to be formally introduced.
What can we anticipate? AI algorithms for higher filtering of sudden noise spikes through Bose’s ActiveSense system, plus improved voice pickup and name high quality, The latter is especially excellent news, as a result of that was a weak spot in comparison with rival earbuds from Technics and Bowers & Wilkins.
Additionally, the new case will have the ability to cost wirelessly – the first-gen Extremely Earbuds wanted a sleeve to drag off this feat, but it surely’ll be right here by default now.
4. Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 wrapped up
Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 has been and gone, and between PlayStation, Xbox and the occasion’s personal showcase, there was lots to be enthusiastic about.
A few of the most thrilling recreation bulletins got here in the type of world premieres akin to Resident Evil Requiem, Marvel Tōkon Preventing Souls, Scott Pilgrim EX, and Avenue Fighter 6’s 12 months 3 Character Cross.
We additionally received new appears at anticipated upcoming video games like Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore, Clockwork Revolution and The Outer Worlds 2.
There’s hundreds to stay up for, then, and that’s all earlier than we’ve even had an opportunity to see what Nintendo is cooking up with a brand new Direct showcase that may possible occur quickly.
3. Xbox introduced a handheld
Lastly, after years of rumors, Microsoft has introduced an Xbox handheld: the ROG Xbox Ally. In truth it gave us two.
In contrast to Asus’ present ROG Ally and ROG Ally X, the Xbox model has a tweaked design with contoured grips that echo the form of the present Xbox Wi-fi Controller. And as one would anticipate, each Xbox Allys sport the Xbox ‘ABXY’ button format and a devoted Xbox residence button.
We don’t but know when it’ll launch, nor how a lot it’ll value, however we anticipate it’ll be about as expensive as the present Ally.
2. Apple instructed us what went unsuitable with Apple Intelligence
Months after Apple admitted publicly that the Apple Intelligence-infused Siri was more durable to ship than they thought, the tech big reiterated the assertion throughout its WWDC 2025 keynote, including virtually cryptically that it’ll arrive “in the coming months”.
Most of us nonetheless had plenty of questions. Fortuitously, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software program Engineering Craig Federighi and Apple World VP of Advertising Greg Joswiak sat down with us (and Tom’s Information) for a wide-ranging and revealing podcast that lastly explains what occurred with Siri improvement, why the smarter model was delayed, and what occurs subsequent.
There’s lots to find out about over-promising and under-delivering and find out how to keep away from related errors, and the full podcast ranges far past to cowl Liquid Glass, and that stunning iPadOS 26 reveal. Talking of which…
1. WWDC 2025 unleashed Liquid Glass
Apple’s software program occasion clued us into what’s in retailer for the subsequent technology of software program from the tech big and an enormous change is that each OS will now be model 26 – with Apple explaining that this may simplicity and readability to its considerably complicated software program lineup.
For iOS 26, and each Apple OS, the main replace is Liquid Glass, a brand new foundational design philosophy impressed by visionOS – which is itself getting a slew of enhancements, akin to mixed-reality widgets.
Nevertheless, the actual star of the present for a lot of was iPadOS 26, which lastly brings a few of the Mac’s greatest options to the pill – and it almost made considered one of our writers cry with pleasure (that could be an exaggeration).
There was lots extra to dig into from Apple’s huge occasion, so for the full particulars take a look at our information to the 15 biggest stories from WWDC 2025.
