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Cameras get an Apple Intelligence boost in Apple Home

Apple Intelligence is coming to cameras connected to Apple Home. At WWDC, Apple announced that with iOS27, the Home app will use Apple Intelligence to analyze footage and generate descriptions summarizing what the camera saw. You can also search footage with natural language to

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Apple WWDC 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Apple's keynote at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference was a big one. After months of delays, Apple reintroduced us to its AI-upgraded Siri, which will go beyond what the existing voice assistant can do by offering more personalized help. We also got a look at many

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WWDC 2026 bonus live blog: Tech Talk with Craig Federighi

Fresh off the WWDC keynote presentation, The Verge has been invited to an "on-the-record technical deep dive into the bold new architecture enabling Apple Intelligence capabilities." Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi and his team will be there, and so will we.

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Physicists create new family of Schrödinger-cat states

Quantum mechanics, unlike classical physics, allows objects to exist in more than one state at the same time. This idea is often illustrated by Schrödinger's cat, imagined as being both alive and dead until it is observed. In the laboratory, physicists can create less dramatic

Apple announces visionOS 27 with Siri AI

Along with new software for Macs and iPhones, Apple announced visionOS 27 during its keynote presentation at WWDC on Monday. Like its other platforms, visionOS 27 will feature Apple's updated Siri AI assistant and the new dedicated Siri app. While wearing the Vision Pro, you

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Lockimara – “Tastes Like”

If you enjoy ear — whose Rumspringa received our Album Of The Week honor last month — then listen up. Lockimara is the project of New York-via-Toronto artist Nicholas Gay, who's providing a similar brand of dreamy electronic earworms. Last month he announced his sophomore album

Tabletop experiment helps reconcile fundamental physics

Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent Physical Review Letters publication, she and her colleagues show how a tabletop experiment can bring together two bedrock physics theories that have never been fully reconciled.

Republicans Blame End of Crucial Program DOGE Cut on Biden

Republicans are trying their best to push the blame for the resurgence of the flesh-eating New World screwworm on former President Joe Biden—even though it was their current boss who cut funding for the monitoring program. “Under the last administration with the massive

Judge blocks $100k fee for H-1B visas imposed by Trump

A federal judge on Monday blocked a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications imposed by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin agreed with a group of Democratic-led states that the administration exceeded its authority, and the fee usurped Congress’s power to

Apple announces iPadOS 27

Today at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced new features coming to the iPad with iPadOS 27 including optimizations such as apps launching up to 30 percent faster by intelligently preloading needed info, and more responsive switching between multiple

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Apple is redesigning Screen Time and overhauling child controls

At WWDC 2026, Apple announced an overhaul to its Screen Time parental control features that aim to improve its safeguarding features to protect children who use iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Some of the new features coming with Apple's iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 updates

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Amazon is launching AI-generated custom merch

Amazon is expanding its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles, and hoodies. Shoppers can use text prompts to generate images that are then printed on to blanks for sale on Amazon. They can

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US military disable oil tanker violating blockade: Centcom

The U.S. military disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday that it said was in violation of the U.S. Navy blockade, according to the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East. An F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS Abraham Lincoln, a

Of Course Sam Bankman-Fried Wants a Pardon From Trump

One of the worst cryptocurrency scam artists is trying to get a pardon from President Trump. Sam Bankman-Fried has officially filed with the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office, Bloomberg reports . The co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading site FTX was convicted on