This fall Apple will update the AirPods Pro 2 with a trio of outstanding new features: Adaptive Audio, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness. Adaptive Audio is a listening mode that dynamically blends Transparency mode and Active Noise Cancellation based on the conditions of your environment. It automatically switches between modes for the best experience at the moment. Personalized Volume uses machine learning to understand environmental conditions and listening preferences over time in order to fine-tune the media experience automatically. Conversation Awareness will ..read more

Today at its annual developer conference, Apple announced updates for all its various operating systems, and tvOS is one of them. With the upcoming tvOS 17, due to release sometime this fall, the Apple TV 4K is getting support for FaceTime. The new FaceTime app for tvOS will let you initiate calls directly from your Apple TV, or start calls on your iPhone or iPad and then hand them off to the Apple TV. FaceTime on Apple TV takes advantage of Apple's Continuity Camera feature to wirelessly connect to your iPhone or iPad in order to use its camera and microphone to record your side of the ..read more

Apple is reworking its watchOS in a fundamental way on its jubilee 10th version. No more honeycomb of apps and a focus on the individual watch face - say hello to stacks of widgets and apps that fill the entire screen. WatchOS 10 is out for developers today and will come in Public beta a month from now for everyone to try. As usual, the OS will arrive in final form this fall, alongside the forthcoming Watch Series 9. With watchOS 10, the main screen is now the so-called Smart Stack - a carousel of widgets that give glanceable information and move from one to another with the digital ..read more

It's here. After years and years of rumors and speculation, today Apple has made the Vision Pro official. It's the company's first VR/AR headset, but of course, this being Apple, it's not calling it that - instead, it's billed as the first ever "spatial computer". It's running an entirely new operating system too, dubbed visionOS. The headset's "display system" packs 23 million pixels ("more than a 4K TV for each eye") across two micro OLED screens, "each the size of a postage stamp", Apple boasts, in case anyone remembers what that is. There are custom catadioptric lenses in there too ..read more

The latest version of Apple’s desktop OS is here with MacOS Sonoma. Named after the small tourist town in California, MacOS Sonoma brings several UI overhauls, starting with the new interactive widgets. Building on the widgets brought in iOS, MacOS Sonoma brings new desktop widgets. Continuity allows iPhone users to transfer their existing iOS widgets to their Mac as long as both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Presenter Overlay is a new feature for video conferencing apps powered by the Neural Engine in Apple silicon chips. It will allow you to share documents ..read more

Surprising absolutely no one, Apple unveiled iOS 17 today at its annual developer conference. This is the latest version of its phone-oriented mobile operating system, and it will be out sometime this fall as usual. Expect the first developer preview to come out in the next few hours, followed by a public beta release next month. iOS 17 comes with a lot of little improvements, even though nothing really stands out as a be-all-end-all feature. Still, a lot of the additions do have the potential to be very useful, and in true Apple style many new features seamlessly work together across ..read more

Apple unveiled the iPadOS 17 at WWDC today and will push the beta out to developers immediately, pending a public beta next month, and a Fall release to the masses. The new iPadOS 17 gains the customizable Lock Screen, which premiered last year with iOS 16, giving users the option to customize the wallpaper, choose different widgets, and play around with font styles. The Lock Screen will also now support live activities widgets - a food order, travel plans, or game results. Apple promised to improve Stage Manager - the feature that allows users to open multiple app windows at once ..read more

The Mac lineup got a big overhaul with the latest addition to the M-series chipsets – Apple M2 Ultra. Following the M1 Ultra chip from last year, M2 Ultra combines two Apple M2 Max chips via Apple UltraFusion architecture with up to 2.5TB/s of bandwidth. The new top-end Apple chip is fabbed on a second-generation 5nm process. Apple claims 20% faster CPU performance compared to M1 Ultra and the new 76-core GPU inside M2 Ultra is 30% faster. The 32-core Neural Engine (NPU) offers a 40% boost compared to M1 Ultra. M2 Ultra is configurable with up to 192GB unified memory (50% more than M1 ..read more

It happened - the MacBook Air is now available in a highly-anticipated 15-inch size. That's 15.3-inch to be precise, and Apple says the new Retina display has 500 nits of brightness and 1 billion colors. The bezels around the screen are a thin 5mm, and there's a 1080p camera fitted in a notch. The 15-inch Air is 11.5mm thin and weighs just 1.496kg. Apple will offer the new machine in four colors - midnight, starlight, space gray, and silver. The 15-inch MacBook Air packs an M2 chip, just like the 13-inch model, with an 8-core CPU (4 performance and 4 efficient cores), a 10-core ..read more

The Indian government offers tax benefits to foreign companies that choose to manufacture their products locally and invests capital in India. It's called the Production-Linked Incentive scheme and alleviates some of the tax imposed on companies. Samsung is one of the beneficiaries, but an issue with invoices may strip the Korean tech giant from its benefits for the fiscal year 2021. Due to discrepancies with the invoicing, Samsung now faces an investigation. Back in August 2021, Samsung claimed $108 million in incentives for reaching $1.81 billion worth of additional sales for the ..read more