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iOS 26 features a whole new design material that Apple calls Liquid Glass, with a focus on transparency that lets the content on your display shine through the controls. If you're not a fan of the look, or are having trouble with readability, there is a step that you can take to make things more opaque without entirely losing out on the new look.
Apple has multiple Accessibility options that are designed to customize iOS for different visual needs, and one of these options is Reduce Transparency. Toggl
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A new deal will see a publicly traded company buy up to $1.5 billion of the Trump family's proprietary crypto token, further blurring the lines between the White House and their private business interests. Read more ›
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Hisense's newest TV screen offers the company's RGB backlight in a "smaller" size. Read more ›
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WIRED spoke with the Texas state representative, who is hiding out in Illinois along with his colleagues in an attempt to stop Republicans from enacting an unprecedented redistricting plan. Read more ›
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Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites. Read more ›
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will cost $50 more than the iPhone 16 Pro but will come with a minimum 256GB of storage, doubling the base capacity compared to last year's model. The information comes from Chinese leaker Instant Digital, posting on Weibo. The account, which has 1.5 million followers, has now made the claim three separate times in recent weeks. Currently, the iPhone 16 Pro starts at 128GB storage... Read more ›
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Sam Altman says we could soon have "high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces." Read more ›
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Students from Aalborg University in Denmark have 3D printed a custom drone that is able to operate underwater and can seamlessly jump between flight and submerged travel. Read more ›
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On Monday, xAI's Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. "My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza," it told one user. "It was flagged as hate speech via reports," it told another, "but […] Read more ›
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Crew members of the Eagle S oil tanker have been charged with 'aggravated sabotage and aggravated interference with telecommunications' by Finnish authorities. Read more ›
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Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's internal security service, said his team relied on corrupt customs officials to smuggle the drones into Russia. Read more ›
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I'm used to PC gaming being fiddly but I've never experienced anything like trying to get the Battlefield 6 beta working before. Read more Read more ›
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You don’t need to sacrifice speed for online privacy. The fastest VPNs protect your streaming, gaming and browsing without slowing you down. Read more ›
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We spoke to five tech executives who successfully navigated career pivots about the advice they would give to others looking to do the same. Read more ›
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I've planned more than 100 family vacations. My itinerary keeps everyone happy, but I'm also blamed when things go wrong. Read more ›
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Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its brain-computer interface and compete directly with Neuralink, along with other nascent companies in the field like Precision Neuroscience and Synchron. The name Merge Labs comes from a term Altman used in 2017 called "the merge" that... Read more ›
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The OpenAI CEO said GPT-5 will soon have a "warmer" personality after complaints about its tone and the brief removal of GPT-4o. Read more ›
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Zoë Kravitz appeared on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and told a story about how she nearly lost a pet snake in Taylor Swift's house. Read more ›
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ParTec AG has filed its third patent infringement lawsuit against Nvidia at the Unified Patent Court, targeting the company's DGX AI supercomputers. The case centers on ParTec’s patented dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA), crucial for CPU-GPU coordination in AI workloads, seeking a Europe-wide sales injunction and damages. Read more ›
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When it came out in 2013, the movie Her was set in the “slight future.” That “slight future” is, astonishingly, here. After all, AI-powered chatbots actually are a real thing now, and people are falling in love with them. It’s remarkable that the 2013 Spike Jonze sci-fi romance about a lonely mustachioed man, played by […] Read more ›
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Cristiano Ronaldo popped the question to his longtime girlfriend with a massive ring, which jewelry specialists estimate is over 30 carats. Read more ›
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AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans. The Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support website, stating: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet." The termination includes the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, both of which were optimized for older operating... Read more ›
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Apple's rumored new more affordable MacBook could have a starting price as low as $599 and launch as soon as this year, according to a new report out of Asia. We first learned of Apple's low-cost MacBook plans in late June, when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company was developing a "more affordable" 13-inch laptop (the analyst did not mention a price) that would with compete with Chromebooks and drive... Read more ›
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Apple is continuing to tweak the way that the Liquid Glass design looks ahead of the iOS 26 launch, and the latest beta makes a change to the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through. Beta 6 on left, beta 5 on right The clock also has more of a 3D, floating look, which is in line... Read more ›
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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are still a year away, there are already several early rumors about the devices. Below, we recap some key iPhone 18 Pro rumors. Under-Screen Face ID In April 2023, display industry analyst Ross Young shared a roadmap showing that iPhone 17 Pro models would feature under-display Face ID. In May 2024, however, Young said he heard this change had been... Read more ›
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U.S. President Donald Trump today said that there will be a 100 percent tariff on chips and semiconductors imported into the United States, but with a major exception. Companies that are building in the United States, or that have made a commitment to build in the U.S., will not have to pay the tariffs. Since Apple pledged to spend $600 billion on U.S. manufacturing, the company will presumably be exempted... Read more ›
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An in-person Live Translation feature could soon be available on the AirPods, according to imagery found in iOS 26 beta 6. There's a picture of the AirPods with Hello in several different languages, along with a suggestion that the feature will be activated with a double press. The file itself is named "Translate," which certainly seems to imply that there will be a gesture to activate a Live Translation option.... Read more ›
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There's just about a month to go until Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 11 models at its September event. Last year we got display upgrades, and this year, there could be new health features. We've recapped all of the current Apple Watch Series 11 rumors for a quick preview of what might be coming. Faster Chip Apple is likely planning to introduce an updated S11 chip that offers a... Read more ›
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It has been more than three years since Apple discontinued the 27-inch iMac, as part of its move away from Intel processors. Since then, the 24-inch iMac has been Apple's only all-in-one desktop computer, with no larger model available. Will a larger iMac ever make a comeback? Below, we recap the latest rumors. In November 2023, Apple announced that it had no plans to release a new version of the... Read more ›
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Apple is testing a revamped version of Siri with select third-party apps, including Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, and a few games, according to the latest word from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple also continues to test the new Siri with its own apps, he said. Apple's own example was an iPhone user asking Siri about their mother's flight and lunch reservation plans based on info retrieved from... Read more ›
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With iOS 26, Apple is bringing several new features to the AirPods, making them more useful than before. The added functionality will be available this fall when Apple releases iOS 26 and updated AirPods firmware, but you can test everything new right now. Camera Remote The AirPods can be used as a camera remote for the Camera app or third-party iOS camera apps. You'll need to enable the feature if... Read more ›
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