Ahead of the official start of MWC, LG has now unveiled the new LG G8 ThinQ. This slim Android phone may look like last year’s G7, but it touts a lot of new tech inside to help it keep up with competitors Samsung and Huawei. LG’s approach this year was to create new ways for people to interact with their phones. The company doubled-down on biometrics, giving the G8 ThinQ owners three unique ways to secure their device.

TL;DR Ark: Survival Evolved has been released for Android in the Google Play Store, along with an iOS version. The free-to-play game is a port of the popular console-PC title of the same name. Players must learn to survive in a land populated by dinosaurs and other creatures. One of the most popular survival-based games on PCs and consoles has officially made its way to your smartphone. As promised earlier this year, the Android and iOS versions of Ark: Survival Evolved are now available to download.

The Sony Xperia 5 brings some of the defining features of the flagship Xperia 1 — like the 21:9 display aspect ratio, impressive audio quality, a high-end processor, and more — to a more compact and affordable package. If you’ve bought the phone, you’ll obviously want to keep it protected from accidental bumps and drops. Here’s our roundup of the best Sony Xperia 5 cases you can buy right now!

Roku Streaming Stick 4KRoku's classic streaming stick is back with an extra kick in an even smaller package. The new processor puts the Streaming Stick 4K on par with the best of them, and the Voice Remote makes TV control and navigation a breeze. Put simply, the Streaming Stick Plus 4K is a tiny triumph and one of the best and most user-friendly streaming sticks you can buy. Roku’s classic streaming stick is finally all grown up.

Update (06/19/18): It looks like someone prematurely revealed a host of details about the upcoming Google Podcasts app. According to a comment on ProductHunt attributed to a Google employee (h/t: Android Police), the app will deliver personalized recommendations based on your subscriptions and listening habits. Got a Google Home? Then you’ll be happy to hear the Google Podcasts app will sync across platforms via Google Assistant. This means you can listen to an episode on your Google Home, then finish it on your phone (or vice versa).

David Imel / Android Authority TL;DR MediaTek has launched the Dimensity 1200 and 1100 processors. The Dimensity 1200 is the flagship-level chipset while the Dimensity 1100 is a step below. The chips still sport the same GPU as last year’s Dimensity 1000 series. MediaTek launched its first flagship chip in a couple of years when it revealed the Dimensity 1000 series at the end of 2019. The chip and its Dimensity 1000 Plus variant didn’t quite challenge the Snapdragon 865 in terms of sheer horsepower, but it still brought plenty of power and features to the table.

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For a long time, the keyboard mobile app market has been dominated by fairly straightforward, serviceable interfaces. Keyboards are simple things, after all, and most attempts to reinvent the wheel by bringing along a bit of pizazz have resulted in clutter rather than increased functionality. But now CooTek has launched a seriously upgraded keyboard application TouchPal that may just become many people’s go-to option. TouchPal is perhaps the smartest keyboard we’ve ever seen.

Google Photos has been updated to version 2.0 in the past 24 hours, but don’t get too excited, there hasn’t been a complete overhaul of the popular photo storage app. However, Google has introduced a couple of handy new features, including permanent album contents sorting, and a couple of tweaks to the user interface. The new permanent sorting of album contents is the big new feature, so we’ll start with that. Essentially it does what the name suggests, Photo users can now sort the pictures in their albums by oldest first, newest first, or recently added, and these ordering changes will be saved for when you next pop in to look at the album, regardless of which device you log in from.

One of the biggest and longest running problems with OEM skins is how heavy and bloated they feel, and while Samsung and LG have made pretty good strides with regards to streamlining their respective software experiences, no one has done a better job with that than HTC. HTC’s Sense UI has always been one of the favorites when it comes to custom OEM interfaces, and while early versions of the Sense UI did have its problems, HTC has made some noticeable improvements over the years, leading to the best version of the Sense UI yet, as seen with the HTC 10.