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A dedicated Apple Watch communication app is missing in watchOS 27
While the Apple Watch is gaining a handful of helpful features with watchOS 27, it’s also losing one that some users might miss.
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Interview: Swift Student Challenge winners talk app inspiration, presenting to Tim Cook and John Ternus, more
While at Apple Park this week for WWDC, I had the opportunity to sit down with two Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winners to talk about their apps and what it’s like giving a surprise demo to Tim Cook and John Ternus.
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iOS 27: Here’s all the new Apple Music features
Apple Music has a few new features with iOS 27, which Apple just announced today at its annual WWDC conference. Perhaps the most immediately visible change is a newly-redesigned artist page featuring prominent shuffle play button, new artist name display, and other smaller layout changes.
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Apple tightens App Review Guidelines against apps that ‘do not add value to the App Store’
Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines with new language targeting apps that it says “do not add value to the App Store.” Here are the details.
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Kalshi to make some users reveal job details to tackle insider trading
After issues with insider trading, the prediction betting platform is adding new rules.
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Telegram launches fully native Apple Watch app with messages, GIFs, video, and more
More than a decade after launching and later discontinuing its first native Apple Watch app, Telegram is back on the device with a fully native experience. Here are the details.
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macOS 27 Golden Gate adds higher resolution support for ultrawide displays
One addition to macOS 27 Golden Gate that went unmentioned during yesterday’s WWDC keynote was the fact that the system has improved its ultrawide display support. Here are the details.
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Here’s everything new coming to Safari on macOS 27 Golden Gate
macOS 27 includes several additions and improvements in Safari, including optional AI-powered features that help organize tabs and keep users up to date on changes to the websites they’re watching. Here’s everything new.
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iOS 27 will make customer service phone calls so much easier, here’s how
At WWDC26 this week, Apple announced its series of new software updates – iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and everything else. Of course, Siri and Apple Intelligence ended up being the star of the show, and Apple finally delivered on its AI promises from 2 years ago. Apple didn’t stop there though. The company went above and beyond , and introduced far more than just what it unveiled at WWDC24. One…
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macOS 27 Golden Gate includes these changes that Tahoe critics will appreciate
macOS 26 Tahoe made some polarizing design choices that evoked strong responses from critics. While the new design in macOS 27 Golden Gate is still all about Liquid Glass, Apple’s new Mac operating system corrects a lot of the mistakes Tahoe made.
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Apple introduces new subscription bundles coming to App Store
Earlier this year, Apple launched a new subscription option on the App Store: monthly plans with 12-month commitments . Now this week at WWDC, Apple has introduced another new subscription option: bundles for app subscriptions from multiple developers.
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Apple just released new AirPods Pro beta firmware for iOS 27 features
Yesterday during Apple’s WWDC keynote , the company announced a pair of new AirPods features coming in iOS 27. And now, to go alongside the iOS 27 developer beta, Apple has released new AirPods beta firmware with expected support for the latest features.
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FromSoftware's The Duskbloods still doesn't have a release date, but there's a Switch 2 playtest coming soon
It's been over a year since we first got a look at Elden Ring developer FromSoftware's fascinatingly weird multiplayer adventure The Duskbloods, but finally - after its publisher stepped in to offer assurances that it's still out this year - it's reappeared. There's still no release date, mind, with its latest showing merely confirming a closed playtest is coming to Switch 2 this "summer". Read…
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Pokémon Pokopia is diving beneath the waves in a free update and the first of three paid DLC releases out later this year
Well, that's me back in. Just when I thought my time with Pokémon Pokopia might be coming to an end, Nintendo has unveiled a whole bunch of new stuff launching this August. Read more
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Could humanoid robots be heading for the battlefield?
Armed forces are experimenting with humanoid robots, but battlefield deployment is some way off.
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Jailed crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Trump pardon
The former leader of crypto platform FTX, currently serving a 25-year sentence, on Monday officially applied to be pardoned.
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Microsoft's next big release Halo: Campaign Evolved just got a slick story trailer, with footage captured on PS5 Pro
Halo: Campaign Evolved, one of Microsoft's next big triple-A releases, just got a cool-looking cinematic story trailer. And all footage you'll see in it has been captured on a PS5 Pro , of course. Read more
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Starmer tells Apple and Google to ban nude images on children's phones
Firms will be expected to activate built-in features to stop children accessing sexually explicit images.