Techlatest Weekly News Roundup Week 4, June 2020: WWDC 2020, Xiaomi’s Sliding Camera Phone, ATP Antivirus for Android and Much More

Begining TechLatest weekly news roundup week 4, June 2020. This is the most amazing and biggest news of the month. Apple has conducted its biggest annual event, WorldWide Developers Conference 2020, due to coronavirus pandemic, the conference took place virtually and broadcasted through various platforms. Apple has made numerous biggest announcements in its WWDC 2020 including iOS 14, new iPadOS, WatchOS, macOS Big Sur, and some other major announcements like Apple is switching to ARM processors for Mac and some more improvements in its existing products.

A new patent has been filed by Xiaomi which shows a sliding camera module at the backside of the phone. The sliding portion will include both front and back cameras at the back and the major purpose behind such design is to increase the screen-to-body ratio of the smartphones. A blogpost, reported that Xiaomi has filed a patent for its sliding camera phone, and explain the detail information about the recently leaked patent.

EA (Electronic Arts) is planning to launch Alex Legend for mobile for more vibrant and enhanced mobile gaming. The company’s CEO Andrew Wilson said that we can expect Apex Legend ‘soft launch by the end of this year’ for mobile. So we can say that the game might appear in the beta version. Moreover, Wilson didn’t mention any device or platform (like Android or iOS) for which the game would launch.

Defender is nothing new that we are hearing, it is the stock antivirus software for Windows. The Defender has actually improved a lot and works really well to a point that you will not need third-party antivirus software for your PC if your Defender is updated. Defender ATP(Advanced Threat Protection) will be the antivirus app for Android by Microsoft.

Google Photos is a photo keeping app that is offered by Google and is the stock photo gallery app for many Android devices. It is around five years old and has changed a lot. Now Google Photos will have a story-like feed that will show you how your week looked in the past years, it is like an improved version of On this day on Facebook. The UI will also have some major reforms that include a new icon, which now looks like the nostalgic pinwheel. There are now three main tabs: Photos, Search, and Library.

A report from @omegaleaks via Twitter claims that Apple will launch a sub-$600 iPhone this year. According to the report, Apple is going to offer a 4G-variant of the entry-level 5.4-inch iPhone 12 for $549. If previous rumors are also true, this could mean that Apple is going to set the iPhone 12 in five different price brackets.

The talks of Microsoft working on a cheaper Xbox Series X version comes from a  twitter handle that operates by the name of TitleOS and he has something interesting. TitleOS is a security researcher, who shared screenshots from XDK/GDK release notes for June 2020 mentioning “Lockhart”. Now the talks are that Lockhart is going to be the cheaper and less powerful version of Xbox Series X. e

So we come to the last amazing article of TechLatest weekly news roundup week 4, and here we get to know that Microsoft Quietly Released Windows File Recovery Tool for Windows 10 2004 Version. And it will be supported for the upcoming newer versions. The utility can be used on traditional mechanical hard drives as well as SSDs, memory cards and USB drives. There is support for NTFS, FAT, exFAT, and ReFS file systems, so you can use Windows File Recovery to get back files lost under various operating systems.