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Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Sony hosted another of its PlayStation Showcase virtual events today and, as promised, made a number of new trailers and announcements for its PlayStation 5 game library. Here’s a quick look at what was revealed today. Marvel’s Wolverine Insomniac Games, the makers of the hit Spider-Man PlayStation games, are making…

Mainstream smartphones aren’t necessarily built to last. This shiny piece of glass and metal is unlikely to withstand the harsh environmental conditions. So what will happen then? This is where robust smartphones come into play. The Doogee S96 Pro offers a long-lasting experience at an affordable price. The question is whether it will hold up…

The TV series Wheel of Time goes to Amazon Prime Video and promises to be the next big fantasy event series. With Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series still almost a year away and HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon due out sometime in 2022, this will be a good chance for…

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL; DR Google may be the subject of another EU antitrust investigation. The EU Commission is examining whether Google is forcing OEMs to install Google Assistant as the standard language assistant. The antitrust authorities will publish a final report in the first half of 2022 and can then initiate an…

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL; DR The Google Clock app still doesn’t trigger alarms as expected. It was updated on Wednesday and now uses system sounds by default when the Spotify integration is interrupted. It seems like a full resolution will have to wait. Google’s official clock app for Android may still not trigger…

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL; DR Private Compute Services will enable secure machine learning enhancements for Android 12’s Private Compute Core. This is an intermediate security framework between the core and the cloud. It’s not clear when the services will go live, but Android 12 is just around the corner. Google announced on…

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for $ 35 million in 2019, is being retired. The company says Houseparty will be discontinued in October if the app stops working for its existing users. however, it is being pulled from the app stores today. In connection with this move, Epic…

We’ve seen many brands trial creative solutions to deliver a “full-screen” experience without a camera notch, with mixed success. OnePlus, Xiaomi, and others briefly dabbled with motorized pop-out cameras. Asus experimented with a rotating module with the Zenfone Flip series. And of course, there’s the now-ubiquitous punch-hole — a slightly more tolerable display cutout, but…

Fans of The Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon novels will receive a new adaptation of Brown’s 2009 thriller The Lost Symbol, which goes to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service. The series takes the franchise in a new direction and starts the Langdon story anew with a new cast and series format. NBCUniversal shared…