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Each year in June, just about every head in the tech world starts dutifully craning toward California to see what genius Apple will come up with next at WWDC. But this June, there’s a whole other world of tech happening outside the US. Forget WWDC, forget E3, forget Silicon Valley — if you want to …

We may be getting an early look at the iPhone X Plus and 6.1-inch LCD iPhone, rumored to be coming this September. These renders of the 2018 iPhones were shared by phone site MySmartPrice in conjunction with mobile leaker and renderer OnLeaks. He says he bases his renders on factory CAD info, but it’s worth noting that these are not official Apple renders, so …

Update, June 5: The Lenovo Z5 has been officially announced — and it has a notch after all. It won’t be long now.  Lenovo posted another teaser to its Weibo page for its upcoming flagship phone, the Z5, letting the world know it will launch on June 5. The company’s VP Chang Cheng shared images of the device earlier in …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2018) kicks off this coming Monday, June 4, and we’ve got a whole list of predictions — but Bloomberg says we shouldn’t expect a new Mac, MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or even an Apple TV to be …

An obscure but increasingly important browser privacy feature in Firefox is getting a big promotion. Mozilla developers accepted an update to the Firefox Nightly test version on Wednesday that makes tracking protection easier to discover, easier to use and more nuanced. Tracking protection blocks website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows your online behavior — something that’s useful …

Apple, Microsoft and a handful of other tech companies are making it so you can plug in a braille display much like a mouse or keyboard.  The companies have teamed up with the USB Implementers Forum, a nonprofit that promotes adoption of USB tech, to integrate braille into a new USB Human Interface Device (HID) standard (PDF), according to Engadget. Now playing: Watch this: …

Arm, the influential designer of mobile processors, wants your Android phone to run faster — and maybe your ultralight Windows laptop, too. On Thursday, the company announced a new chip generation, the Cortex-A76, that it said will be 35 percent faster than today’s models when it arrives in 2019 phones. That’s a big jump for one year, and perhaps enough …

The LG G7 ThinQ is a perfectly fine phone, full of artificial intelligence and other fancy features.  Instead of waiting until you happen upon a new feature or setting, read through our list of 10 tips and tricks below. We can’t promise they will change your life, but they will help you get the most out of your new phone.  Now …

If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a big AAA gaming title on your phone, now you can. Sort of. Valve’s Steam Link ($160 at Amazon) system originally required a physical box to be plugged into a television and connected to the same network as your gaming computer. You would then use the processing power of your dedicated gaming rig to stream …

I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google’s educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way. Google’s AR Expeditions initiatives were originally designed to be used in classrooms, and still are, but before now schools had to be part of a pilot program to try …