This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. China wants a shiny new internet — and you may like what the country has in mind. Its plan promises a network fast enough to show you as a live hologram in a video chat, secure enough to block data deluge …

Apple has joined an industry trend toward more inclusive language in its technical domain, replacing terms with racial overtones like a “master” branch of a software project or a “blacklist” to describe resources a computer might be blocked from accessing. Apple started making the changes in its own documentation and beta software released last month at its WWDC conference. But …

Broke your ankle somewhere in Manitoba’s vast wilderness? Crashed your car on the highway somewhere outside Toronto? With location technology startup What3words, Canadians now have a new way to tell emergency responders exactly where they are — even if they don’t know themselves. And some emergency services in Los Angeles and Arizona have embraced the technology, too. What3words divides the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s Safari will take advantage later this year of new encryption technology that protects an important type of network communication called DNS. It’s part of a broader movement to build privacy into internet technology like email and the web that initially sent sensitive …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With Safari on iOS 14, MacOS Big Sur and iPadOS 14, you’ll be able to log in to websites using Apple’s Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication. That’s a powerful endorsement for technology called FIDO — Fast Identity Online — that’s paving the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is overhauling its Mac computers with its own Arm chips, close cousins to those it designs for its own iPhones and iPads. Moving away from the Intel processors it’s used for the last 14 years is a historic change that disrupts software …

In a development that oddly enough bodes well for Apple Macs, a Fujitsu machine has been named fastest in the world. The system, called Fugaku and installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, features processors that are members of the Arm family that Apple will use in its Mac personal computers later this year. Fugaku uses Fujitsu …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On the big debut of Apple’s new version of MacOS Big Sur, a slip of somebody’s finger led Apple to accidentally call its new operating system “Bug Sur” instead. The typo was in an email sent to people who’d signed up to test …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After 19 years stuck on the same major version number, Apple is finally unsticking MacOS. MacOS Big Sur, the first incarnation of its operating system to run on Apple’s upcoming Arm-based Macs as well as its older Intel-based lineage, will get the version …

Lots of us gripe about browser memory usage, a problem that gets worse as browsers become more powerful software foundations and websites get correspondingly hefty. Technology from Microsoft’s Edge could help you cut memory use by up to 27% on Windows, though, and the technology is coming to Google Chrome, too. Microsoft’s Edge team added the memory improvement with Windows …