It’s been an enormous week for tech information, with Apple‘s WWDC happening and a raft of massive bulletins within the gaming world.
Missed all of it? Never 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 largest tech information tales.
And when you’re all up to the mark with that, remember to additionally take a look at our picks for the 7 new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend.
7. Xreal informed us extra about Project Aura
We already knew Xreal’s Project Aura glasses would carry Android XR options to Xreal’s lineup, however we didn’t know an excessive amount of concerning the {hardware} itself. Now we do.
For a begin, the gadget will apparently boast a 70-degree subject of view – which is far bigger than the FOV discovered on the 57-degree Xreal One Pro and which is able to give the Project Aura glasses an enormous digital display screen.
It’ll even be tethered to a compute puck which is able to 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 Ultra 2 rival
Surprise! 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 new mannequin packs 32GB of inside reminiscence, presumably for on-watch music, plus Garmin’s up to date Elevate v5 heart-rate sensor, most not too long ago used on the Garmin Forerunner 570 and 970.
Unfortunately 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 doable to see if it justifies that price ticket.
5. New Bose earbuds have been cleared for launch
The best noise-cancelling earbuds you should buy proper now are made by Bose (which is sensible – the corporate created the primary ever lively noise cancelling headphones), and proper now we’d counsel not shopping for them. Why? Because there is a newer model incoming, and Bose says they’ll be even higher.
The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 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 count on? AI algorithms for higher filtering of sudden noise spikes by way of 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.
Also, the brand new case will have the ability to cost wirelessly – the first-gen Ultra Earbuds wanted a sleeve to tug off this feat, however it’ll be right here by default now.
4. Summer Game Fest 2025 wrapped up
Summer Game Fest 2025 has been and gone, and between PlayStation, Xbox and the occasion’s personal showcase, there was loads to be enthusiastic about.
Some of probably the most thrilling sport bulletins got here within the type of world premieres corresponding to Resident Evil Requiem, Marvel Tōkon Fighting Souls, Scott Pilgrim EX, and Street Fighter 6’s Year 3 Character Pass.
We additionally acquired new appears to be like at anticipated upcoming video games like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Clockwork Revolution and The Outer Worlds 2.
There’s masses to look ahead to, 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 doubtless occur quickly.
3. Xbox introduced a handheld
Finally, after years of rumors, Microsoft has introduced an Xbox handheld: the ROG Xbox Ally. In truth it gave us two.
Unlike 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 Wireless Controller. And as one would count on, each Xbox Allys sport the Xbox ‘ABXY’ button structure and a devoted Xbox residence button.
We don’t but know when it should launch, nor how a lot it’ll value, however we count on it’ll be about as dear as the present Ally.
2. Apple informed us what went fallacious with Apple Intelligence
Months after Apple admitted publicly that the Apple Intelligence-infused Siri was tougher to ship than they thought, the tech large reiterated the assertion throughout its WWDC 2025 keynote, including nearly cryptically that it’ll arrive “in the coming months”.
Most of us nonetheless had a lot of questions. Fortunately, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi and Apple Global VP of Marketing Greg Joswiak sat down with us (and Tom’s Guide) for a wide-ranging and revealing podcast that lastly explains what occurred with Siri growth, why the smarter model was delayed, and what occurs subsequent.
There’s loads to study over-promising and under-delivering and how one can keep away from related errors, and the total podcast ranges far past to cowl Liquid Glass, and that stunning iPadOS 26 reveal. Speaking of which…
1. WWDC 2025 unleashed Liquid Glass
Apple’s software program occasion clued us into what’s in retailer for the following technology of software program from the tech large and an enormous change is that each OS will now be model 26 – with Apple explaining that this can simplicity and readability to its considerably complicated software program lineup.
For iOS 26, and each Apple OS, the key replace is Liquid Glass, a brand new foundational design philosophy impressed by visionOS – which is itself getting a slew of enhancements, such as mixed-reality widgets.
However, the true 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 practically made one of our writers cry with joy (which may be an exaggeration).
There was loads extra to dig into from Apple’s huge occasion, so for the total particulars take a look at our information to the 15 biggest stories from WWDC 2025.