June, 2019

• 3 June

  Apple WWDC 2019: 12 things to do in San Jose, CA

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s kicked off its WWDC developers conference on Monday, introducing several products and software updates including the Apple Pro Display XDR, MacOS Catalina and  iOS 13, and the new Mac Pro. Though the audience sounded excited enough about the devices, …

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• 3 June

  Amazon Prime one

  

  Amazon said Monday its one-day Prime delivery program is now available on more than 10 million products across the continental US. Products eligible for these faster shipments include books, baby wipes, doggie bags, sunscreen, closet organizers and cleaning products. Amazon noted that when it launched two-day deliveries in 2005, it only offered 1 million items, meaning its one-day program is …

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• 3 June

  Twitter buys startup to detect ‘network manipulation’

  

  Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a startup focused on machine-learning tech. The London-based startup says its Geometric Deep Learning technology has high success rates of spotting fake news, as reported earlier by CNET sister site ZDNet. Twitter said Fabula AI has “a world-class team of machine learning researchers who employ graph deep learning to detect network manipulation.” “The result is …

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• 3 June

  Apple adding support for PS4, Xbox One controllers to iOS, TVOS and MacOS

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple announced that the Apple TV will soon be compatible with Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 controllers, with support also coming to iOS 13 and MacOS Catalina as well. “We’re extending support to the two best and most popular game controllers available — …

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• 3 June

  Verizon 5G lab tunes up robots and medical tech heading your way

  

  When 5G arrives in force, it won’t just be for you. It’ll be for the robots, too. Or maybe more precisely, for you and the robots working together. That was the point of one of the demonstrations Thursday at Verizon’s 5G lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a knee-high humanoid robot trundled up and down several steps and along the length …

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• 3 June

  Four AirPods and an iPhone: Share music with a friend in iOS 13

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has unveiled the ability to connect two pairs of AirPods with a single iPhone, which will be available in iOS 13. The updated mobile OS, including this new dual-connect feature, is expected in fall 2019, which is also when the company is …

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• 3 June

  The new Mac Pro makes its debut at WWDC 2019: Starts at $5,999, available fall 2019

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has debuted the new Mac Pro — a dramatically retooled version of its flagship desktop computer that had not been significantly updated since 2013 — on Monday at WWDC. The new $5,999 entry-level configuration features an eight-core Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM, a Radeon Pro …

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• 3 June

  Get the latest NBA stats with Google Lens and a team logo

  

  As the NBA Finals evened up to 1-1 between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, Google showed off a new way basketball fans can get team stats just by pointing their phone at a logo. Aparna Chennapragada‏, vice president of Google Lens and AR, on Sunday shared a video on Twitter demoing how the search engine’s …

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• 3 June

  Apple Memoji get accessories, makeup and stickers

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple will let you make your iPhone Memoji look even more like you, the company said on Monday at its WWDC 2019 developers conference. Apple introduced new features to let you further customize your avatar. You’ll be able to give yourself accessories, like …

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• 3 June

  Apple’s ARKit gives AR apps motion capture, lets you step inside a digital creation

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple updated its ARKit tool set to make it easier for iPhone augmented-reality apps to capture people’s movements by pointing the camera at them and recognize when somebody steps in front of an AR digital creation, known as people occlusion.  The announcements, made at …

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