After years of complaints, Apple is finally addressing some of the biggest issues with its Apple Watch Activity Rings. With watchOS 11, the company is tweaking this feature without changing its core: Making people move a bit every day.Here’s what’s new with watchOS 11 Activity Rings: Pause your rings: Move, Exercise, and Stand rings show…
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watchOS 10 is Apple’s current operating system for Apple Watch models. It brings a redesign for larger displays, a focus on widgets, apps, new workout features, and stacks to Watch Faces.To learn more about Apple’s upcoming operating system for Apple Watch, head to the watchOS 11 guide page. FeaturesHere’s everything new with the Apple Watch,…
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The iPhone 16 models will look a lot like their predecessors. We’re still getting all-screen designs with Dynamic Island at the top and increasingly slimmer bezels, at least for the iPhone 16 Pro models. The Pros will be slightly larger than before, a design change supposedly resulting from Apple’s desire to put a tetraprism zoom…
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Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware last year follows on from a number of smaller but significant software acquisitions the company has made over the past few years. These all appear to point to the company’s appetite to develop a software business built on acquiring the customers of these businesses. In 2018, Broadcom acquired CA Technologies.…
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With its new unskippable ad feature, YouTube might end up killing ad blockers once and for all. Currently, the video platform is experimenting with server-side ad injection, which means the ads would appear directly in a video’s stream, bypassing ad blockers.A Google spokesperson explained the test to Gizmodo: “YouTube is improving its performance and reliability…
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Apple introduced a variety of new features to its Messages app at WWDC this week. With iOS 18 – slated to arrive this coming September – iPhone users will finally be able to schedule texts and enjoy more expansive tapback options. On top of that, one of the more intriguing and exciting new Messages features…
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Apple added new privacy features to iOS 18 you can try now if you’ve installed the first beta. I already showed you how to lock iPhone apps with Face ID in iOS 18, a feature that goes hand in hand with a new iOS ability: You can hide iPhone apps from the Home Screen and…
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macOS Sequoia is Apple’s upcoming software update for Mac users. While it’s full of great features, the one I was most excited to try won’t launch until “later this year.” That means it might be included in macOS 15.1 in October, or maybe not until macOS 15.2 in late December.During its preview at the WWDC…
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While the technology industry has made progress with diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives over the past five years, carelessness, budget cuts and rollbacks threaten to pause or reverse progress, the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) has found. In its 2023 annual benchmarking report, the not-for-profit warned of “concerning changes” across the tech landscape, including a…
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Now that Apple is taking more cues from Android—the addition of a customizable home screen and a few other features coming to iOS 18 have been available in Android for years now—it’s time for the company to look at other features it can nick, and I’ve got the perfect one: I’d love to see reverse…
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