This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. My first impressions of iOS 10, seeing it up close, were of those smart notifications that now pop up whenever the phone is lifted. No button-pressing necessary. Sure, Android has done that already. But what I liked the …

Apple is stepping up its fight to rid the world of Adobe Flash. Apple’s Safari 10 browser, which will ship with MacOS Sierra later this year, will deactivate Flash by default. Instead it will favor the newer HTML5 technology that has been gaining traction on websites for delivering interactive content. If you encounter a site that can use either Flash …

It didn’t take long for the backlash to smack PayPal CEO Dan Schulman after his company took a stand for LGBT rights in North Carolina. He was on the receiving end of threatening letters and public criticism for his decision in April to kill plans to create a 400-person operations center in Charlotte and walk away from $3 million in …

The gunman behind the worst mass shooting in modern US history referenced the terrorist organization ISIS in a Facebook post moments before the massacre, a source close to the investigation told CBS News. “You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance [sic],” Omar Mateen wrote, according to the source. “In the next few …

Are exciting new features coming to the next generation of MacBooks? Memos from the department of rumors say they’re likely! Apple obsessives who examined changes to the company’s public computer code have spotted signs that future laptops will include both Touch ID — Apple’s fingerprint reading technology — as well as something called an OLED Touch Bar, according to 9to5mac. …

Apple Watch will get a badly needed makeover. Apple unveiled significant changes to come with WatchOS 3, the upcoming iteration of the software that powers its wearable. Changes include a different way of navigating through the phone, with more-intuitive gestures and better use of the gadget’s side button, as well as apps loading much faster. But is it enough to …

Your future iPhone could be outfitted with a transparent display that could overlay images onto objects in the real world à la augmented reality. “Transparent electronic device,” a patent granted to Apple on Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, describes a touch-sensitive display integrated into a transparent window. The patent paperwork gives as an example a museum visitor, …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. There’s never been a better time to be a young programmer. At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple debuted a new tutorial app for iPads called Swift Playgrounds that will ship this fall. Students learn basic programming instructions to control an animated …

If you need to get your public IP address quickly, Google and Bing make it easy. Type “what is my IP” into your Google or Bing search bar. Your IP address will be at the top of the search results, no clicking required. Done. This can be handy when you need to give someone (someone you trust!) direct access to …

Mobile networks in the UK have made a habit of offering their customers affordable smartphones as alternatives to the Samsungs and iPhones of the world. Vodafone is no different, and today it introduced the Smart Platinum 7, along with a VR headset. The Smart Platinum 7 is designed to bring you the best data speeds Vodafone can offer. It comes …