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Verizon announced today that the LG V50 ThinQ will be available for purchase from June 20. It will be the second 5G smartphone to go on sale through the wireless carrier after the Galaxy S10 5G.

Palm announced today an unlocked version of its standalone smartphone that debuted in April. The device can be pre-ordered now for $349 and it works with AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and MetroPCS.

Comcast introduced today the Xfinity X1 eye control, a new service designed to help people with physical disabilities navigate their television using only their eyes. The feature is free to use.

Samsung's Galaxy Note9 is beginning to receive a QR scanner and the Night mode treatment for its camera in Germany, after the feature rollout to the Galaxy S10 series in April of this year.

After launching To-Do for pre-order on Mac a week ago, Microsoft is now rolling out the productivity app to the Mac App Store for everyone. It has the same design as its versions on other platforms.

Huawei has delayed the market release of its Mate X foldable phone until September instead of the initially planned launch in June to avoid the same issues affecting the Galaxy Fold.

After years of getting unofficial LineageOS builds, the Essential Phone finally receives official support from the Android-based operating system. The latest nightly build is up for download now.

LinkedIn has unveiled new features meant to provide a more interactive way for users to communicate on the social networking platform. New capabilities include photo tagging, reactions, and more.

Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser has been confirmed to be getting a new capability that will allow users to prevent videos on a particular website from automatically playing.

ASUS has confirmed via a post on Weibo that its next-generation gaming smartphone, the ROG Phone 2, will be featuring a 120Hz display. The device is rumored to debut sometime next month.

LG unveiled today two models of its new gaming monitor dubbed the UltraGear. The monitor is claimed to be the world's first 1 millisecond IPS display, featuring a 144Hz refresh rate, among others.

Facebook makes its user data collection more transparent with Study, a market research app available to download in the U.S. and India for now. Participants will be paid as part of the program.

Opera introduced today its new browser intended for gamers. The Opera GX went live for early access only during the E3 event in Los Angeles, with its general release scheduled later this year.

HTC announced two new mid-tier hones today, the HTC U19e and Desire 19+. The U19e will be available for purchase from June 12 for NT$14,900 (~$475) and the Desire 19+ for NT$9,990 (~$319) from July.

Samsung will be bringing its upgraded Galaxy A lineup of smartphones to the U.S. beginning this month, including the Galaxy A50, A20, and A10e. The A50 will be available from June 13 for $349.99.

OnePlus has introduced a new color variant for its flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 7 Pro Almond edition. The new variant is available to purchase from today for $699 and it ships in 14 days.

Samsung unveiled today its latest addition to the Galaxy XCover family of rugged smartphones, the XCover 4s. It runs Android 9.0 Pie and will be available for purchase from July in Italy.

Google has launched support for Assistant on Waze for Android devices to let users get traffic reports, for example, using their voice. The feature is available in the U.S. only for now.

Facebook is the latest U.S. company to serve a major blow to Huawei by prohibiting it from pre-installing apps like Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp on its future phones.

Instagram now allows users to add lyrics to songs that they want to share on Stories, plus the option to customize the font and design of lyrics available for the soundtracks they select.

Apple has quietly put out a support page announcing the deprecation of TLS certificates signed with SHA-1 in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina two years after other tech giants adopted the change.

Microsoft has announced that it is increasing the limit of 500 shared folders in Outlook for Windows to 5,000 for most customers. The change is available on the 1904 and 1905 versions of Outlook.

Skype has launched the screen sharing capability to its Android and iOS version for everyone along with a streamlined and simplified video call design that rids your screen of any obstruction.

Twitter has acquired machine learning startup Fabula AI, which uses graph deep learning to detect network manipulation. It's part of Twitter's effort to keep a healthy conversation on the platform.

Xiaomi has shown off its own smartphone prototype with no screen notch, pop-up selfie camera, or punch-hole cutout on the display. Instead, the front camera is hidden under the display.

The Department of Justice reportedly wants T-Mobile and Sprint to create a new carrier using their own network as part of the tradeoffs the companies need to make to win its approval for their merger.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, and WhatsApp along with many civil society groups have jointly called on the UK's GCHQ to abandon plans to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages.

Amazon introduced today its new addition to its Echo Show family of smart speakers, the Echo Show 5. It sports a 5.5-inch display and comes with some privacy controls. It will be available from June.

Intel has exhibited a new laptop concept at Computex 2019 code-named "Honeycomb Glacier", which shows off a dual-screen design and caters to heavy task requirements for both gamers and creators.

Huawei has filed a new court motion for a speedy process on the verdict on a U.S. ban against its products and services. The move follows a series of mishaps befalling the company last week.

Xiaomi unveiled today the first flagship device under its Redmi sub-brand, the K20 Pro powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 SoC along with the standard K20. Both phones will be available on June 1.

Samsung has announced two new USB Type-C power delivery controllers, the SE8A and MM101, which can support up to 100W-charging. The SE8A is in mass production while the other is being sampled.

Multiple Galaxy S10 users have reported that their devices are having issues that cause the phones to freeze, with no immediate solution right now. The problem also affects third-party apps.

Future iPhones may introduce support for dual Bluetooth audio broadcast, enabling the phone to send audio to two Bluetooth headphones at the same time. That feature may also support older iPhones.

MSI announced today its new WS65 laptop under the WS series of workstations, powered by Nvidia's Quadro RTX 5000 GPU and the 9th-gen Intel Core i9 processor. The all-new WP series is also in tow.

At Computex 2019, ASUS announced the 30th-anniversary editions of its Zenfone 6 and ZenBook laptop with some upgrades to their internals plus the luxurious enhancements to their design.

Nvidia announced at Computex 2019 today that its Turing GPUs will be used to power 25 new laptop models, 17 of which are RTX Studio laptops designed for 3D development and other intensive tasks.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has announced that Apple formally made binding commitments to be more upfront with customers about the health and performance of their iPhone's battery.

EE announced today that it is rolling out its 5G network across six cities in the UK on May 30 along with new plans and 5G-enabled devices. The launch comes a month ahead of Vodafone's 5G rollout.

The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5, the latest version of the anonymity- and privacy-focused web browser. Its first stable release is also out now for Android following months of testing.