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Apple’s always believed in curation — and that’s even true when it comes to news, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday.  Earlier in the day, Apple unveiled a 2018 midterm elections section in its News app, promising US readers curated content through November. It will offer coverage from Fox News, Vox and other selected outlets, …

The open beta for iOS 12 is available today, and — unlike the developer beta that launched on June 4 — anyone can download it. I’ve been trying out the public beta on a test iPhone X for the past few days, and can report to you on what’s worth trying out and what’s still missing. Before we dive in, …

If you’ve been dying to turn yourself into an animated cartoon, you’re in luck. Apple’s public beta version of iOS 12, with its new Memoji feature, is now available for download.  The software, which runs on iPhones and iPads, won’t be finalized and officially released until the fall. Those of you who can’t wait until then can enroll in Apple’s …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The future of augmented reality headgear and smartglasses is still very much in flux. The long-awaited Magic Leap might emerge this year. Microsoft’s Hololens has hung in a state of enterprise limbo — one from which it may finally emerge next year. Little …

iPhone users who call 911 will automatically be able to share location data with first responders when iOS 12 is released this fall, Apple said Monday. The service will allow 911 operators to more easily locate callers in order to dispatch responders more quickly and accurately to emergency situations, the company said in a statement. Apple first launched a version of …

Many of us scroll through our phones just before falling asleep and immediately after waking up. But first-year students at Eton College, an English boarding school for boys, no longer have that luxury. The students have been ordered to turn in their phones at night because of concerns around the pressures of social media, according to The Guardian. Eton College …

Last week’s iPhone gossip just took a turn for the best: The rumored tripl-camera iPhones of 2019 might come a year earlier. One of the models could even sell for less than the iPhone X, if word on the internet is to be believed. Here are the juiciest iPhone rumors of the past week. The iPhone X Plus could pack …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. While it wasn’t a surprise, the lack of any Mac hardware updates at last week’s Apple WWDC conference still disappointed potential MacBook, iMac and Mac Pro shoppers, many of whom have been waiting patiently for the company to release radically updated versions of some …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has a lot of new features to explore in the latest version of iOS 12. From personalized Animoji to a Siri that can help you do more things at once, there’s lots to dig through in the developer beta. Because this is …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. You’ll need to wait until the fall for the updates to iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave to hit, but there’s no need to wait for the beautiful wallpapers Apple showed off at WWDC.  With each software update, Apple introduces new wallpapers to spiff …