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At WWDC on Monday, Apple unveiled a new dedicated gaming app designed to focus the gaming experience on Apple devices. The app will act as a game launcher, allowing users to track achievements and view leaderboards. The gaming app also includes social features, such as the Play Together tab, where you can see what your friends are playing, compare scores, and invite them to play. There are also “challenges.” This is a new way to compete with friends in a score-based showdown. For developers, challenges are built on top of the arcade leaderboards, allowing single-player games to be transformed into…

Apple has announced a new Apple Music update for WWDC 2025 with the new iOS 26 update. The company said it has added lyrics translation capabilities to Apple Music Service, making it easier to understand the meaning of songs in another language. This may reduce your visits to Genius.com or any such alternative sites. The company also adds a pronunciation feature so you can sing songs without getting anything meaningless or the wrong words or phrases. Additionally, Apple said it is adding Auto-Mix to build an endless mix of songs one after the other based on the previous song. This…

Apple is introducing live translations powered by Apple Intelligence for messaging, FaceTime and phone calls. “Live translation allows you to translate conversations on the fly,” Apple's Director of Input Experiences Leslie Ikemoto said Monday at the WWDC 2025 event. The translation feature is “enabled by an Apple build model that runs fully on the device, so personal conversations remain personal.” In a message, live translation will automatically translate text when you type and stream in your preferred language. Similarly, each text can be translated instantly when the person sending the text message responds. When you catch up with FaceTime, Apple's…

Apple's iPhone may not have gotten any significant AI upgrades, but you get a fresh coat of paint. The same goes for other Apple operating systems. At the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 25) on Monday, the company announced a refreshed user interface called Liquid Glass, featuring shiny, reflective, transparent visual interface elements that give the software a “glass-like” look and feel. Screenshot The design refresh is inspired by Apple's VR headset, the Vision Pro. If an interface is built for a spatial computing headset, integrate the design of your iPhone with the design of other Apple devices. This change could…

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, a dedicated gaming app, and a virtual health coach. This could be a major update, including a dramatic redesign inspired by Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. And check out the live coverage of the keynotes here. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers.…

Welcome to WWDC 2025 Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am and is hoping to be announced soon. We expect the biggest announcement to be newly designed iOS. This reports that it has similar design elements to Visionos, the software powered by Apple Vision Pro. According to Bloomberg, the company calls it liquid glass. So the new OS has a transparent interface and a more circular app icon that breaks away from today's traditional square format. We're also looking forward to a dedicated gaming app that can replace the aging arcade app and include access to Apple Arcade…

United Natural Foods (UNFI), a leading distributor of food products to Whole Foods and other retailers, said it was hit by a cyber attack on Monday, warning of disruption in its ability to meet and distribute customer orders. UNFI filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, saying it had noticed unauthorized access to its IT systems last Thursday and began shutting down parts of its network. Filing added that the company “implemented workarounds for certain operations in order to continue serving customers as much as possible,” but said the intrusion caused continued disruption in business operations. Based in…

Without warning the owner, security researchers can discover bugs that can be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone numbers for almost any Google account, putting users at privacy and security risks. Google confirmed with TechCrunch that it fixed a bug after researchers warned the company in April. An independent researcher who blogged his findings using Brutecat on the handle told TechCrunch that he could use bugs in the company's account recovery feature to get a recovery phone number for a Google account. The exploit relied on a “attack chain” of several individual processes working in tandem, including leaking the…

ChatGpt's conversation voice mode has been upgraded. Over the weekend, Openai deployed an update to Advanced Voice. This is a feature that allows users to interact loudly with ChatGpt. The company has now heard ChatGpt's voices sound more natural and fluid with “subtle intonation,” “realistic rhythms” (including pauses and emphasis), and “on-point representationality” for emotions like empathy and irony. Audio mode also makes it easier for users to translate languages. When you ask ChatGpt to interpret it, it will continue to translate the conversation until you tell them to stop or switch to another language. This feature is available to…

Impact Investor and Advisor Christian Tooley raised a brief question to an audience at SXSW London last week. What if investors put aside social prudence for profit? Tooley was primarily referring to subclauses. This is a limitation in which partners place investments on Guardrail in venture companies. These no-sectors often include products that deal with substances such as gender, psychedelics, gambling, and tobacco, and such restrictions are usually imposed by large institutional investors who don't want to invest in products that are controversial at best and at worst are potentially harmful. Tooley feels that investors are missing out on innovation…