Over the last two weeks we’ve met every fierce season 14 queen, each of whom put the ‘U’ into their CNT talent show performances. Now they're tasked with creating a number of sick’ning designs for this week’s Double Ball challenge. Whose gag-worthy looks will turn the judges’ heads? Find out as we explain how to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 episode 3 online from anywhere now.
*Warning: episode 2 spoilers ahead*
The tea so far? Orion is no longer part of the Drag Race universe after deciding to perform a comedy sketch without any yuks. It was a mis-step that almost ousted DeJa Skye too, but she redeemed herself last week with a soulful lip-sync of Alicia Keys’ Fallin’ and sent Daya Betty home instead.
Maddy Morphosis, Jasmine Kennedie, and Jorgeous were declared safe, while Angeria Paris VanMicheals bagged a tidy $5000 after a barnstorming performance of an original song that declared she was “your southern belle from ATL” and “country as hell.” She was the total package and Ru was living for it.
This week it’ll be balls to the wall as the remaining 12 contestants compete in an epic design challenge, each hoping to impress Mama Ru, Michelle Visage, and reality TV star Christine Chiu in their bid to snatch the crown.
Will your favourite queen be belle of the ball? Or will they get sent home with their tuck between their legs? Don’t be left in suspense: read on to find out how to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 episode 3 online from anywhere now.
How to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race online from outside your country
If you go abroad at any point during the new season of RuPaul's Drag Race, you’ll find regional restrictions prevent you from streaming the show as you normally would.
Luckily, circumventing geo-blocks is actually really simple. All you need to do is download a VPN to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race online from anywhere in the world. It's an ingenious piece of software that changes your IP address, so you can access on-demand content or live TV just as if you were at home.
Is RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 on Netflix?
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 is not dropping on Netflix UK !
It's a major break with tradition, but fans based in the UK instead need to turn to WOW Presents Plus for the new season.
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Use WOW Presents Plus to watch RuPaul's Drag Race and more
WOW Present Plus comes to us from World of Wonder, the production company behind RuPaul's Drag Race.
As such, it has an impressive catalogue of RuPaul shows - including the latest season 14 episodes - available to stream in various countries, such as the UK and New Zealand. A full list of what's available and where can be found here .
It's a pretty niche offering but if drag shows are your thing, you'll find it also hosts the likes of UNHhhh, Untucked, and Transformations. Prices vary from place to place but there's a FREE 7-day trial on offer so you can sashay on over and check it out for yourself.
The health tech you didn't realize you needed from CES 2022
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a great place to spot new trends in health and fitness, and CES 2022 is no exception. We’ve already seen two new sports watches from Garmin , a smart cooling mattress topper to beat night sweats, and Oral-B’s smartest electric toothbrush to date – but CES is also a place for new and strange gadgets to get their moment in the spotlight, and these are this year’s highlights.
We'll be keeping this list updated as the show goes on, adding any new oddities as they're unveiled.
Sengled Smart Health Monitoring Light
Sure, your regular lightbulbs stop you wandering around in the dark and maybe even change color to suit your mood, but is that enough? The latest overachieving bulb from smart lighting company Sengled doesn’t just brighten you room, it also uses radar to monitor your sleep, heart rate, and body temperature.
That might sound excessive (after all, your Fitbit can do all that, and is likely more accurate) but it means there’s no need to remember to charge and wear a watch, and the company says that, when used in a network, the bulbs could even detect if a person has fallen down.
We don’t have a price or an exact release date yet, but the bulb is due to arrive in a lamp near you at the end of 2022.
Kohler PerfectFill
Close your eyes, relax, and imagine coming home after a hard day to find a bath already ready at the perfect depth and temperature. Once you've finished soaking your worries away, you can also tell the bath to drain itself rather than subjecting yourself to the stress of fishing around for the plug.
Now open your eyes – and your wallet – because the voice-controlled smart bath of your dreams is real thanks to Kohler PerfectFill , and prices start at $2,700. That doesn’t include the necessary Kohler spout, a compatible tub, or the cost of installing it all – but just think of the bubbles just waiting for you.
Ible Airvida E1
The Ible Airvida E1 is billed as the world’s first air purifier with built-in headphones, and sits around your neck pumping out beats while emitting negative ions that “can disrupt and breakdown coronavirus’ carbon-hydrogen bond and inactivate them immediately”. Can your Airpods Pro do that?
It's a pretty big claim, but Ible has been in the purification business for a long time (its non-musical devices are available at major retailers worldwide) and it’s received awards for its disease-controlling tech in Taiwan.
Y-Brush 2
Why spend four precious minutes every day brushing your teeth, when you could get the job done in just a few seconds? That’s the question posed by the makers of the Y-Brush – a kind of vibrating gumshield that’s designed to clean your whole mouth at once while you gently chew on its nylon bristles.
We tested the first-generation model last year (an experience that’s as weird as it sounds) and found that, although convenient, it just didn’t clean as well as a regular electric toothbrush.
The second-gen brush debuted at CES features both upper and lower bristles so you don’t need to flip it midway through brushing, but we’re not sure if that will improve its actual cleaning performance. The new Y-Brush is currently a prototype, with no release date on the near horizon.
Huawei Mate 50: everything we know
Whatever happened to the Huawei Mate 50? Judging by convention, it should have come out in late 2021 as a top-end Huawei phone to complement the P50 range - but it was a total no-show.
Not only was the Huawei Mate 50 totally missing from the late-2021 launch slate, but the Huawei P50 only got a limited launch, with a wider release expected in early-to-mid 2022. So right now, it's quite hard to predict the company's release slate.
Some sources actually think the Mate 50 has been totally canceled , which would mean we'd have to wait until late 2022 to see another Mate phone, if another one is even coming.
That's a shame, because if it's real, the Huawei Mate 50 could be one of the best handsets we test. That was true of the Huawei Mate 40 range in 2020, phones which – particularly in the case the Huawei Mate 40 Pro and Pro Plus – had brilliant screens, stunning designs, class-leading cameras, good battery life, and plenty of power.
So far we don’t know much about the Huawei Mate 50 range, but we’d expect a continuation of all that – likely coupled with a high price.
Below we’ll go through everything we have heard so far, along with details of the release date and price, and then a wish list of what we want from the phones, because there’s always room for improvement.
Cut to the chase
Huawei Mate 50 release date and price
We expected the Huawei Mate 50 to show up towards the end of 2021, which obviously didn't happen, despite the fact the Mate 40 range was unveiled in late October of 2020.
A delay makes sense - the Huawei P50 series launched a lot later than expected, and still hasn't arrived outside China, so perhaps the Mate line were pushed back so the P devices have a chance to shine. That is, if the phone hasn't been canceled , as one source thinks.
Indeed, we've elsewhere heard that the Huawei Mate 50 might land in the first quarter of 2022 , so sometime between January and March. This comes from leaker Digital Chat Station .
As for the price, the Huawei Mate 40 Pro was the only model of the current range to get a UK or Australian release, and that cost £1099.99 / AU$1,999 (roughly $1,430). None of the phones got released in the US, but the standard Mate 40 started at €899 (around £810 / $1,065 / AU$1,500) in Europe.
So pricing for the Huawei Mate 40 range might be similar – as might availability, but with no rumors yet we’re not at all sure. All we can be confident of is that the range probably won’t land in the US, thanks to the Huawei ban, although with a new administration in power even that might not be set in stone.
News and leaks
We don’t know much about the Huawei Mate 50 yet, but it’s possible that it will use the Kirin 9000 chipset. That’s actually the same chipset as the Huawei Mate 40 has, meaning the new phones might not get as much of a power boost as usual.
The reason this chipset is a possibility is because the US trade ban that Huawei is under means that it can’t easily source components to build chipsets. However, it’s reportedly held back enough stock of the Kirin 9000 to be able to equip the Huawei P50 range and perhaps also the Mate 50 range with it.
That said, another source claims that it will have a 4G-only version of the Snapdragon 898. That chipset hasn't even been announced at the time of writing, but it's expected to power many of 2022's flagships (though most will get a 5G version).
Elsewhere, Ross Young (a display industry expert and leaker) has tweeted that the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is among the 2021 phones that are rumored to have an LTPO (low-temperature Polycrystalline oxide) screen.
That’s a type of screen tech that we’ve seen on a few phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra , but not many. It allows the refresh rate of the display to dynamically change, without additional hardware components.
That in turn probably means two things for the Huawei Mate 50 Pro. Firstly, that it will probably have a refresh rate of above 60Hz (which is hardly surprising given that the Mate 40 range has a 90Hz refresh rate), and secondly that it will probably be a variable refresh rate, meaning it slows down when the extra refreshes aren’t needed, thereby conserving battery life.
What we want to see
We don’t know much about the Huawei Mate 50 range at the time of writing, but we know what we want.
1. More apps
The biggest problem with Huawei’s recent phones is one of software, and more specifically apps. Thanks to a US trade ban the company’s phones can’t access the Google Play Store or make use of Google apps such as Maps.
Huawei does have its own alternative store, called AppGallery, along with access on its phones to some third-party stores, but none of these can compete with Google Play, or in many cases Google’s own apps, so there are a lot of gaps in its app library.
Fixing this for the Huawei Mate 50 range would make it a lot more desirable, but short of an end to the trade ban (which might not be completely impossible now that a different government is in power) the situation probably won’t get much better.
2. Wider availability
None of the Huawei Mate 40 range landed in the US, and only the Huawei Mate 40 Pro landed in the UK or Australia, so for the Huawei Mate 50 range we want wider availability.
Specifically, we want to see every model land in the UK and Australia. The US is still likely to be out of the question given the Huawei ban there, but we want every region that can get these phones to get them.
3. A 120Hz or higher refresh rate
Every model in the Huawei Mate 40 range has a 90Hz refresh rate, which is a reasonable refresh rate for the basic model, but less impressive for the Mate 40 Pro, let alone the Mate 40 Pro Plus.
So we want the Huawei Mate 50 range to at least match the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S21 range in offering a 120Hz refresh rate on every model.
Better yet, we’d love to see an even higher refresh rate. Some gaming phones offer this, so there’s no reason a general purpose flagship can’t.
4. A lower price
The Huawei Mate 40 Pro was an expensive phone at launch, and had the rest of the phones been available in the regions we cover they likely would have been as well, so we’d like to see a price cut for the Huawei Mate 50 range.
Samsung slashed the prices for the Galaxy S21 range, so this isn’t out of the question, especially as Huawei will want to be able to rival those phones.
5. An in-screen camera
One thing that could help the Huawei Mate 50 range stand out is having an in-screen selfie camera. This is a feature we’ve now seen on the ZTE Axon 20 5G , and it’s also one that other companies are rumored to be working on, so by late this year it’s not unreasonable to start expecting flagships to have a camera in the screen.
Plus, one of our issues with the Huawei Mate 40 Pro was its large camera cut-out, which is something an in-screen camera would solve.