MacOS Sequoia, also known as macOS 15, is officially here. The new OS packs a ton of new capabilities onto the desktop, including a password management app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari, as well as all the features that come with Apple Intelligence—the company’s new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Below, we …
Read More »The Top New Features in WatchOS 11
At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced small but significant updates to watchOS 11. This year is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Apple Watch, and rumors abound that we will see a major redesign of Apple's wearable this fall, with a new suite of health features …
Read More »AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone
Apple’s new AI strategy might also play a key role in its upgrade-your-iPhone strategy. The company used its annual developer conference today as a platform to announce Apple Intelligence, a decidedly non-generative nomenclature for a suite of new AI features that, like other generative AI tools, are trained on massive …
Read More »Apple’s Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave
Apple has a history of succeeding despite being late to market so many times before: the iPhone, the Apple Watch, AirPods, to name a few cases. Now the company hopes to show that the same approach will work with generative artificial intelligence, announcing today an Apple Intelligence initiative that bakes …
Read More »Apple's Cycle Tracking app to add gestational age
Apple‘s Cycle Tracking app will soon indicate the gestational age of a user’s pregnancy, according to an announcement made during the company’s WWDC 2024 presentation. SEE ALSO: Everything announced at WWDC 2024, from iOS 18 to Apple Intelligence Gestational age is a term that describes how far a pregnancy is, …
Read More »Everything Apple Announced at WWDC
Apple typically uses its annual developer conference to announce big software updates and introduce new devices. But this year, Apple set aside the gadget talk and left plenty of room for what everyone expected would be the main topic of WWDC: all of the shiny new AI features coming to …
Read More »Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
Apple is finally getting into the generative artificial intelligence game—with a little help from an unlikely partner in OpenAI. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s long-awaited AI reboot at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino, California, today. What the company is calling Apple Intelligence, available in beta this fall, …
Read More »Some Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using Bluetooth
Buy a pair of wired headphones, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re just plug and play. Stick them into your phone, and out goes the audio up copper cables into your earholes. Simple as that. Trouble is, that straightforward mechanism has gotten more complicated, and in recent years there …
Read More »What to Expect at Apple’s WWDC 2024
apple's worldwide developers Conference has always been the event where the company announces new software capabilities for its devices. However, over the last few years, the software news out of WWDC has been upstaged by hardware announcements. Rather than focusing on apps at recent WWDCs, Apple has used the gathering …
Read More »I Spent an Hour in Marvel’s Apple Vision Pro Experience. I’m Still Not Sure Why
On its surface, Marvel’s new “immersive story” What If…?, available to Apple Vision Pro users starting Thursday, seems like a win-win. Marvel gets to mess around with how to combine storytelling and spatial computing, and Apple gets a big-name experience to appease everyone who ponied up $3,500 for their new …
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