With all of the leaks, renders and mockups we’ve seen of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 over the past few months, you would think this would start to get old. If anything, however, readers’ interest in iPhone 6 leaks is still growing. Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6 will be the biggest smartphone launch of the year and with the phone’s expected release now just about two months away, leaks and rumors are in full swing. We have seen a number of dummy iPhone 6 units that are reportedly based on leaked schematics, but they all lack the refinement Apple’s hardware will undoubtedly have.

Now, however, a stunning new render of Apple’s next-generation iPhone 6 gives us a different perspective.

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Samsung may be getting ready to launch a new flagship smartphone in the coming months – other than the already released Galaxy S5 and the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 – whose purpose is to compete directly with the iPhone 6 that’s set to arrive in September. Korean publications ETNews and The Korea Herald have learned from sources familiar with the matter that Samsung’s response to the iPhone 6 is a device made of metal called Galaxy Alpha, likely an internal name for the premium handset as opposed to a final product name.

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If one were to wager on which new smartphone will be the most popular model of 2014, the smart money would likely be on Apple’s upcoming new iPhone 6. With pent-up demand for an iPhone with a larger display dating back several years now, Apple will almost certainly sell as many new iPhones as its partners can manage to churn out of their factories when the iPhone 6 finally launches later this year.

Just how much bigger will the iPhone 6 be? We’ve seen plenty of comparisons between previous-generation iPhones and fake iPhone 6 mockups, but now we have another basis for comparison that uses seemingly authentic iPhone 6 front panels to measure the size of Apple’s upcoming new iPhone model against current phones.

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One of Google’s main I/O 2014 announcements is the company’s new design language – dubbed Material Design – which will be applied to all of Google’s properties, including Android L, Android and iOS apps, and web apps. Google has already demoed its Material Design concepts, providing explanations for its design choices and vision, but Android Police has obtained more details about what Material Design means for Google’s content store, sharing images of the upcoming Play Store redesign.

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While Apple is expected to launch two bigger iPhone models this year, including a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 model and a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 (or iPhone Air) phablet, a new research note obtained by MacRumors from well-connected Apple insider and KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo says that the latter model might hit stores next year.

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The iPhone 6 is not official and its first clone has already been spotted somewhere in Asia, Nowhereelse reports. The iPhone 6 clone is apparently a device built using one of those iPhone 6 dummy units that flooded the Internet, and seems to be running a version of iOS 7. It’s not clear who assembled the unit and for what purpose – so far, the leaked iPhone 6 dummy units were not functional.

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Microsoft will reportedly announce Windows 9 this fall, Russian hacker group WZor said on a forum last week, following the launch of Windows 8.1 Update 2, which will be the last major update Windows 8 will receive. Windows 8.1 Update 2 is expected to be released by mid-August, and while the OS will get subsequent updates, no new features will be added to Windows 8.1. Instead, Microsoft will focus on its next major product it wants to sell buyers, which is Windows 9.

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The late 1990s were defined by a number of ridiculous things, but somewhere near the top of the list was the panic that boiled over in 1999 as people prepared for the end of civilization as we knew it. Because of the “Y2K” bug, you see, anything and everything controlled by a computer would stop functioning when the clock struck midnight and December 31, 1999 rolled into January 1, 2000. That obviously didn’t happen, but the Y2K bug was a pretty sizable nightmare for programmers as they were made to pour through code and change two-digit year abbreviations to four digits.

Unfortunately, it looks like some programmers’ jobs still aren’t done.

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Apple recently acknowledged its in-app purchases issues that allowed children to purchase content without requiring verification and settled the FTC case agreeing to refund some $32 million in fraudulent in-app charges. But Amazon doesn’t want to go down without a fight, GigaOm reports, as the same Commission is investigating its own in-app purchase problems related to the Amazon Appstore that’s available on Android devices.

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As if Apple hadn’t made a strong enough case against Flash already, Adobe announced this week that a security vulnerability had been discovered in the most recent version of Flash Player. Adobe quickly addressed the issue, but Apple took safety measures a step further by adding any version of Adobe Flash Player version below 14.0.0.145 (and 13.0.0.231 on older machines) to its plugin blacklist.

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