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Apple’s software

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sorry, folks. After last year’s hardware-heavy WWDC, we got nothing this year. Bupkis. Not that we were expecting much after a recent Bloomberg report said WWDC 2018 would be all about software, not hardware. But it still stings a little that we have …

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Lego AR lets Batman come to life with iOS 12 at WWDC

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Batman’s latest trick is coming to life on your kitchen table.  At Apple’s WWDC, the company showed off a cool new use of Augmented Reality — a Lego game you can play with friends. LEGO + AR + Apple at WWDC! pic.twitter.com/TXlx0pyTz4 — …

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Apple’s new ARKit has multi

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is getting more serious about augmented reality. The company on Monday announced a new version of ARKit, Apple’s set of tools that let developers create augmented reality apps for iPhones and iPads. The updated version will have multi-user functions, so more than …

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Apple Music web player allows for song streaming outside of iTunes

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple Music subscribers can now listen to songs from a computer using a web browser without having to fire up iTunes — but it’s not a full-blown iTunes replacement.  Apple has updated its MusicKit developer software for this week’s WWDC conference, announcing Monday that developers …

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Lenovo Explorer Mixed Reality follows the crowd down to $200

The latest version of Lenovo’s Explorer Windows Mixed Reality headset system has been toddling along at $400 until today, when it was spotted in the Microsoft Store for half off at $200. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft reveals mixed reality tech for the workplace 3:13 Mixed Reality headsets aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, and prices dropped significantly in January …

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Apple WWDC 2018: These iPhone models will get iOS 12

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its WWDC conference on Monday, Apple took the wraps off iOS 12. If you already own an iPhone ($285 at Amazon) or iPad ($170 at Amazon), especially an older one, you might be wondering whether the device will be able to run the …

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How to enable dark mode in Windows 10

Mac users may be excited by the addition of a dark mode to MacOS Mojave but did you know this is something Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) could already do? When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arrived a few years back it brought the ability to put your device into Dark Mode, which offers black windows instead of white ones. Whether you’re …

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Apple TV gains ‘zero sign

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sick of signing into TV apps all the time? There’s an Apple TV for that. The company’s streaming video box, CNET’s favorite for Apple fans and big spenders, will roll out a new feature called “zero sign-on” as part of the update to …

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