ICYMI: the week’s 7 largest tech tales from Apple’s stunning Liquid Glass to the Xbox’s shock handheld launch

It’s been an enormous week for tech information, with Apple‘s WWDC happening and a raft of huge bulletins within the gaming world.

Missed all of it? By no means worry – as a result of you may atone for it by scrolling down for our useful recaps of the week’s seven largest tech information tales.

And when you’re all up to the mark with that, make sure you additionally take a look at our picks for the 7 new films and TV exhibits to look at this weekend.

7. Xreal advised us extra about Undertaking Aura

We already knew Xreal’s Undertaking Aura glasses would carry Android XR options to Xreal’s lineup, however we didn’t know an excessive amount of in regards to the {hardware} itself. Now we do.

For a begin, the machine will apparently boast a 70-degree area of view – which is way bigger than the FOV discovered on the 57-degree Xreal One Professional and which can give the Undertaking 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 gained’t land till someday in 2026, however once they do that pair of Android XR specs might 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 doesn’t come low-cost, costing $799.99 / £679.99 / AU$1,499. We’ll be testing it as quickly as potential to see if it justifies that price ticket.

5. New Bose earbuds have been cleared for launch

The finest 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? As a result of there’s a more recent 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 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.

Additionally, the brand new case will be capable to cost wirelessly – the first-gen Extremely Earbuds wanted a sleeve to tug off this feat, but it surely’ll be right here by default now.

4. Summer season Recreation Fest 2025 wrapped up

Summer season Recreation Fest 2025 has been and gone, and between PlayStation, Xbox and the occasion’s personal showcase, there was a lot to be enthusiastic about.

A number of the most thrilling recreation bulletins got here within the type of world premieres corresponding to Resident Evil Requiem, Marvel Tōkon Preventing Souls, Scott Pilgrim EX, and Road Fighter 6’s 12 months 3 Character Move.

We additionally acquired new appears to be like at anticipated upcoming video games like Dying Stranding 2: On the Seashore, Clockwork Revolution and The Outer Worlds 2.

There’s masses to sit 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 probably 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 count on, each Xbox Allys sport the Xbox ‘ABXY’ button structure and a devoted Xbox dwelling button.

We don’t but know when it would launch, nor how a lot it’ll price, however we count on it’ll be about as expensive as the present Ally.

2. Apple advised us what went incorrect with Apple Intelligence

Months after Apple admitted publicly that the Apple Intelligence-infused Siri was more durable to ship than they thought, the tech large reiterated the assertion throughout its WWDC 2025 keynote, including virtually cryptically that it’ll arrive “in the coming months”.

Most of us nonetheless had a number of questions. Thankfully, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software program Engineering Craig Federighi and Apple World VP of Advertising and marketing Greg Joswiak sat down with us (and Tom’s Information) 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 rather a lot to study over-promising and under-delivering and find out how to keep away from comparable errors, and the complete 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 era of software program from the tech large and a giant 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, corresponding to mixed-reality widgets.

Nevertheless, the true star of the present for a lot of was iPadOS 26, which lastly brings a number of the Mac’s finest options to the pill – and it almost made certainly one of our writers cry with pleasure (that could be an exaggeration).

There was a lot extra to dig into from Apple’s large occasion, so for the complete particulars take a look at our information to the 15 largest tales from WWDC 2025.