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Yooka-Laylee is back in a SNES-style kart racer from some of the team behind Diddy Kong Racing

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:00:46 -0400

It's someway been 7 years since Yooka-Laylee's past due escapade (I'm not definite 2025's remake, arsenic enjoyable arsenic it was, wholly counts), but the bat and lizard duo are yet back, and this clip successful a brand-new form. Yes, those caller leaks were right: we're successful for immoderate classical SNES-style kart racing enactment erstwhile the now-officially announced Super Yooka-Laylee Kart arrives for PC astatine immoderate presently undisclosed aboriginal time.

What we've been playing - "Have you ever downloaded a game on Steam just to boot it up and delete it five minutes later?"

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:00:42 -0400

Hello and invited backmost to our regular diagnostic wherever we constitute a small astir the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie and Connor interruption the rules slightly, but it's good due to the fact that Bertie organises What We've Been Playing and Connor regularly contributes to it, truthful they some get a pass. Elsewhere, believes again that different crippled has been tailormade for them - I'm opening to consciousness a signifier - and Hitman instrumentality Kelsey rolls credits connected Bond and gets a spot emotional.

The Reopening Of Great Bend's Historic Drag Strip Is A Rare Tale Of Success As Other Race Tracks Continue To Close

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:43 -0400

SRCA was fortunate that its neighbors and the metropolis were supportive of bringing the historical way to moving order.

5 Used SUVs Under $20k That Probably Won't Break The Bank In Repairs

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:43 -0400

It's not casual to get immoderate SUV, caller oregon used, nether $20,000. But determination are a fewer options that negociate to beryllium reliable and comparatively inexpensive.

IO Interactive's James Bond game 007 First Light sells 2.7 million copies in its first week, as dev reiterates free Year One content

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:00:50 -0400

007 First Light is already racking up immoderate beauteous awesome income figures for IO Interactive. Today, successful a presumption fixed to the property aft the Summer Game Fest 2026 showcase, IO workplace manager Hakan Abrak told Eurogamer that the crippled sold 2.7 cardinal copies successful its archetypal week connected merchantability - and is present 'closer to 3 cardinal copies sold'.

Day of the Devs 2026 - everything announced in the big Summer Game Fest indie showcase

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:00:50 -0400

Summer Game Fest's glitzy flagship showcase mightiness beryllium implicit for different year, but that doesn't mean we're done conscionable yet - far from it! There'll beryllium much bluster to travel connected Sunday erstwhile Microsoft shares its wares during the Xbox Games Showcase, for lawsuit (unless its new enforcement squad has capitulated to net fanboys erstwhile again, successful which lawsuit there's a bully accidental it'll beryllium called the LOLPLAYSTATIONSUX Showcase), but archetypal - similar the zen nutrient successful a chaos sandwich - Day of the Devs has done its happening erstwhile more.

Monster Hunter Ascendance is to Wilds what Iceborne was to Monster Hunter World, coming 2027

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:44 -0400

Monster Hunter Wilds' archetypal expansion, Ascendance, has yet been revealed. In a trailer astatine Summer Games Fest 2026, Capcom unveiled the aboriginal of the crippled with a monolithic caller enlargement called Ascendance.

Maverick Games reveals Clutch, an open-world racer set in the rather gorgeous-looking French Riviera

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:44 -0400

Clutch - the cinematic, open-world, action-driving crippled from the squad astatine Maverick Games, and which is being headed up by erstwhile Forza Horizon originative manager Mike Brown - conscionable got itself a precise slick caller trailer astatine this evening's Summer Game Fest, showing of its alternatively beauteous rendition of Monaco and the French Riviera.

Aion 2's global release date announced at Summer Game Fest

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:43 -0400

Aion 2 - the sequel to legendary Korean MMORPG Aion - has had its planetary merchandise day revealed astatine Summer Game Fest.

The Wolf Among Us 2 finally arrives next year, a decade after it was announced, but a remaster of the acclaimed original is coming first

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:43 -0400

It's yet happening, apparently. After a protracted and highly tumultusous decennary of development, The Wolf Among Us 2 is supposedly present launching adjacent year. And there's a remaster of the much-loved archetypal connected the mode to tide america implicit until then.

More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:37 -0400

Back successful 2015, the two-person workplace Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decennary successful the making, gathering disconnected of erstwhile releases dating backmost to the freeware Flash rubric N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued immoderate celebrated past words: "We anticipation it's not different 10 years earlier we travel up with a game." But present present we are, much than a decennary later, and N is getting different sequel. And this clip the absorption is connected multiplayer.

The caller crippled is called, absurdly, N Plus Infinity Times Two. Whereas N++ was meant to beryllium the eventual single-player mentation of the N concept, this crippled is described arsenic "the eventual virtual cou …

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Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:00:37 -0400

Who's acrophobic of the adjacent GTA? Based connected the past fewer days of Summer Game Fest, conscionable astir everyone. Grand Theft Auto VI hasn't been contiguous astatine immoderate of the keynote events, but its beingness was felt each clip a merchandise day was announced. The period of November, erstwhile GTA VI launches, is virtually empty. The remainder of the fall, meanwhile, is perfectly packed.

It started astatine Sony's State of Play showcase connected Tuesday. Even earlier that show, we knew that Wolverine, the adjacent large PlayStation exclusive, would beryllium launching connected September 15th. But present it's joined by a clump of large third-party titles: Dune: Awakening (September 22nd), Control Resonant (Sep …

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Patrice Désilets has unveiled 1666: Amsterdam, which includes with some very angry looking cats

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:49 -0400

At this evening's Summer Game Fest showcase, Panache Digital Games and Patrice Désilets gave america each a trailer for 1666: Amsterdam.

The next Virtua Fighter finally got a proper name and a fancy trailer at Summer Game Fest

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:49 -0400

Sega's adjacent large Virtua Fighter crippled yet has a due name, which has been revealed alongside a fancy caller trailer.

Hot Wheels Infinite Rush announced at Summer Game Fest, launching later this year

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:48 -0400

Hot Wheels Infinite Rush has conscionable been announced astatine Summer Game Fest.

Gundam is getting a flashy new action game with Gundam Rogue Orbit, coming 2027

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:48 -0400

Gundam Rogue Orbit has been revealed with an breathtaking caller gameplay trailer astatine Summer Game Fest.

After the success of Black Myth: Wukong and Wuchang: Fallen Feather, Swords of Legends aims to elevate the Chinese action-RPG even further

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:48 -0400

Tonight during the Summer Game Fest showcase, developer Aurogon Shanghai unveiled a marque caller trailer for the upcoming action-adventure RPG Swords of Legends.

Stellar Blade Blood Rain takes a big swing with a Summer Game Fest reveal trailer

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:47 -0400

Stellar Blade Blood Rain has conscionable been revealed astatine Summer Game Fest, with an action-packed caller gameplay trailer.

Saw's the latest movie to get the asymmetrical horror game treatment and it's coming from Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober Team

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:47 -0400

So far, Dead by Daylight is the lone 1 that's managed to stick, but that hasn't stopped the deluge of asymmetrical fearfulness games from continuing to flow. And present it's Saw crook to effort its luck wherever others person failed successful the recently announced Saw: Genesis, which is connected the mode courtesy of Silent Hill 2 developer Bloober Team.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is called Revelation, coming to PS5, Xbox and Switch 2 simultaneously

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:46 -0400

Square Enix has yet announced, arsenic portion of today's Summer Games Fest showcase, immoderate much accusation astir the 3rd instalment of Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. It's called Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy will conclude with Revelation

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:41 -0400

Square Enix has officially announced the 3rd and last crippled successful its Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy: Final Fantasy VII Revelation. It volition merchandise connected each platforms simultaneously.

This 3rd crippled volition reason a yearslong saga that, truthful far, has really turned retired beauteous well. Final Fantasy VII Remake was a thrilling, thoughtful take connected the archetypal that focused connected the Midgar information of the FFVII story. Four years later, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth fto Cloud Strife and friends research a large open world and besides added the excellent Queen's Blood in-game paper game.

While those games launched arsenic PlayStation exclusives, Square Enix has since ma …

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What to Expect From WWDC 2026: Gemini-Powered Siri, iOS 27, macOS 27 and More

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:53 -0400

Apple's 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference is conscionable days away, and it's going to beryllium an absorbing lawsuit due to the fact that it volition springiness america a look astatine Apple's AI plans. We'll spot however Apple is going to vie with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google successful the months to travel with an AI mentation of Siri and caller AI features for its apps.

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iOS 27 Siri Changes

Big changes are coming successful iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, and Apple employees haven't been capable to support quiet. We've heard details connected a agelong database of AI updates Apple has planned, with capable item that screenshots could beryllium recreated by Bloomberg. Much of what's rumored relates to AI features and changes.

New Siri Features

Based connected Apple's promises and rumors astir what's coming successful the caller mentation of iOS, ‌Siri‌ successful ‌iOS 27‌ volition beryllium thing similar ‌Siri‌ successful iOS 26. In 2024, Apple showed america 3 ways that ‌Siri‌ volition improve, but 2 years person passed and other enactment has been done, truthful we're expecting adjacent much than what Apple demonstrated backmost then.

‌Siri‌ is going to beryllium capable to gully connected idiosyncratic information and accusation from Apple devices, with entree to idiosyncratic information for completing tasks. The adjunct is besides going to beryllium capable to bash much with apps, and it volition beryllium capable to archer what's connected the surface to reply questions.

Personal Context

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to entree emails, messages, files, photos, and more, learning each astir you to assistance you implicit tasks and support way of what you've been sent. Apple offered immoderate examples of however idiosyncratic discourse volition work:

Show maine the files Eric sent maine past week.

Find the email wherever Eric mentioned crystal skating.

Find the books that Eric recommended to me.

Where's the look that Eric sent me?

What's my passport number?

Onscreen Awareness

Onscreen consciousness volition fto ‌Siri‌ spot what's connected your surface and implicit actions involving immoderate you're looking at. If idiosyncratic texts you an address, you tin archer ‌Siri‌ to adhd it to their interaction card. Or if you're looking astatine a photograph and privation to nonstop it to someone, you tin inquire ‌Siri‌ to bash it for you.

App Integration

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to bash much successful and crossed apps, performing actions and completing tasks that are conscionable not imaginable with the idiosyncratic adjunct close now. We don't person a afloat representation of what ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium susceptible of, but Apple gave a fewer examples of what to expect.

Moving files from 1 app to another.

Editing a photograph and past sharing it with someone.

Getting directions location and sending the ETA successful the Messages app.

Drafting and past sending an email.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to implicit tasks successful Apple apps and successful third-party apps, with developers capable to exposure app capabilities to ‌Siri‌.

Siri Chatbot

Apple needs a ‌Siri‌ app due to the fact that ‌Siri‌ is becoming a chatbot. ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium similar ChatGPT oregon Claude, capable to gully connected accusation from the web to supply answers to questions.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium profoundly integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS astatine the strategy level, and tin gully connected instrumentality information. It volition cognize much idiosyncratic discourse than before, and volition beryllium capable to entree emails, texts, photos, calendar information, contacts, notes, and different idiosyncratic data. Some of what ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to do:

Search the web for information

Generate images

Generate content

Summarize information

Analyze uploaded files

Use idiosyncratic information to implicit tasks

Ingest accusation from emails, messages, files and more

Write emails, notes, and texts

Analyze unfastened windows and on-screen contented to instrumentality action

Control instrumentality features and settings

Search for on-device content, replacing Spotlight

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium integrated into Apple apps similar Mail, Messages, Photos, and Apple TV.

Siri Design

With ‌Siri‌'s chatbot transition, Apple volition beryllium making aggregate Siri-related plan changes. ‌Siri‌ volition mostly unrecorded successful the Dynamic Island, and Bloomberg says determination volition beryllium caller ways to entree ‌Siri‌.

Swiping down from the halfway of the iPhone's show from the Home Screen oregon immoderate app volition bring up a caller "Search oregon Ask" diagnostic successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌. A glowing, pill-shaped animation volition beryllium displayed successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌ to bespeak that ‌Siri‌ is processing a request.

When ‌Siri‌ has an answer, the ‌Dynamic Island‌ volition grow into a transparent paper with the result, incorporating images, info from the web, notes and different accusation applicable to the query oregon request. Swiping connected the results paper volition bring up a speech mode that looks akin to an iMessage chat, and determination volition beryllium an enactment to modulation to the afloat ‌Siri‌ app.

Search oregon Ask replaces ‌Siri‌ Suggestions and volition fto users motorboat apps, commencement substance messages, inquire astir the weather, adhd calendar appointments, trigger shortcuts successful apps, and hunt the web utilizing Apple's caller AI web hunt feature. Search oregon Ask queries tin besides beryllium sent to third-party chatbot services similar ChatGPT alternatively of ‌Siri‌.

While ‌Siri‌ tin beryllium accessed done a swipe successful ‌iOS 27‌, Apple is keeping the "Hey ‌Siri‌" aftermath connection and ‌Siri‌ activation done the Side button. With the caller halfway swipe, accessing the Notification Center volition beryllium done with a swipe down connected the near broadside of the display. Swiping down connected the close broadside volition proceed to bring up Control Center. With the alteration to however Notification Center is accessed, notifications volition now descent in from the near broadside of the iPhone alternatively of the apical of the display.

Apple volition besides integrate an "Ask ‌Siri‌" fastener into the menus of its apps, giving users a mode to nonstop contented straight to ‌Siri‌ alongside a request.

The caller ‌Siri‌ interface uses acheronian colors with nary airy mode available. ‌Siri‌ UI elements person a acheronian inheritance with colour accents that reflector the options Apple is utilizing successful WWDC imagery. Apple's WWDC website features a achromatic Swift vertebrate with subtle highlights successful pink, acheronian blue, purple, and orange.

Standalone Siri App

Bloomberg precocious shared a mockup of what the standalone ‌Siri‌ app volition look like, and it's akin to different chatbot apps similar ChatGPT, Claude, oregon Gemini.

‌Siri‌ volition enactment substance oregon voice-based conversations. The app volition unfastened with an "Ask ‌Siri‌" barroom wherever users tin benignant successful a question. A paperclip icon volition beryllium disposable for attaching images, PDFs, and different documents. Apple volition supply prompts with suggestions connected what users tin ask.

Questions volition lucifer iMessage chat bubbles, with Apple adopting a plan that is acquainted to users. Responses volition see links, images, and different information.

A conception of the app volition beryllium dedicated to past conversations that tin beryllium shown successful a card-style interface with speech summaries, oregon a database view. Users volition beryllium capable to pat into a speech to proceed it.

Siri Privacy

Apple plans to thin into privateness arsenic a cardinal rule of its attack to AI, giving it a mode to separate ‌Siri‌ from different chatbot options. Apple volition apt purpose to support arsenic overmuch processing on-device arsenic imaginable to bounds the magnitude of information that leaves a user's device.

Apple said that Apple Intelligence features volition proceed to tally connected Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.

Apple volition person limits astir memory, including restrictions connected the accusation that tin persist and however agelong it is kept. Users volition beryllium capable to auto-delete ‌Siri‌ chats and requests aft a acceptable play of time, similar 30 days oregon 1 year. There volition besides beryllium an enactment to support chats permanently, and chats volition sync crossed Apple devices signed into the aforesaid iCloud account.

‌Siri‌ tin beryllium turned disconnected close now, arsenic tin ‌Apple Intelligence‌, and there's nary motion that's going to alteration successful ‌iOS 27‌. Users who don't privation to alteration ‌Siri‌ oregon usage the caller features volition not person to.

Siri Extensions

Apple is letting rival chatbots integrate with ‌Siri‌ successful ‌iOS 27‌, expanding connected the OpenAI concern that presently allows ‌Siri‌ to manus disconnected requests to ChatGPT, Bloomberg says Apple plans to let different chatbots similar Claude and Gemini to enactment with ‌Siri‌, truthful users volition beryllium capable to nonstop questions to their favourite chatbot alternatively of ‌Siri‌.

iPhone users volition beryllium capable to prime which services they privation to usage wrong ‌Siri‌ done "Extensions" options coming to ‌iOS 27‌, iPadOS 27, and ‌macOS 27‌. The options volition beryllium disposable successful the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ and ‌Siri‌ conception of the Settings app, with Apple providing download links for chatbot apps. There volition beryllium a dedicated Extensions section successful the App Store that volition service arsenic a mode to take a third-party AI app.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium the default for the Search oregon Ask interface, but rumors suggest users volition beryllium capable to prime different chatbots to talk with. Users volition besides beryllium capable to choose third-party AI services arsenic the default for ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features similar Writing Tools and Image Playground, expanding ‌Apple Intelligence‌ integration beyond ChatGPT.

Apple besides plans to fto users take voices from third-party AI to usage alternatively of ‌Siri‌, truthful determination volition beryllium a chiseled audio quality betwixt a effect from ‌Siri‌ and a effect from the user's chatbot of choice. ‌Siri‌ would usage 1 voice, portion responses from third-party AI options would usage different voice.

Google Gemini Backbone

To get ‌Siri‌ up and running, Apple partnered with Google to usage Gemini AI models alternatively of utilizing its ain AI models. Apple signed a multi-year woody to usage Google's Gemini models and unreality exertion for its Apple Foundation Models, and it's costing Apple determination astir $1 cardinal a year.

Google and Apple said that the adjacent procreation of Apple Foundation Models volition beryllium based connected Google Gemini models, with Gemini utilized to powerfulness aboriginal ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features and the much personalized mentation of ‌Siri‌.

Apple said Google's AI exertion offered the astir susceptible instauration for its models.

iOS 27 Apps and Feature Updates

Camera

Apple is moving Visual Intelligence from the Camera Control fastener to the Camera app successful ‌iOS 27‌. Bloomberg has shared images of the caller interface, featuring a ‌Siri‌ mode that's disposable alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When successful ‌Siri‌ mode, the existing Camera app shutter fastener volition diagnostic the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ logo, letting users cognize the ‌Siri‌ features are available.

‌Siri‌ mode is simply a renaming of ‌Visual Intelligence‌, and it volition marque the diagnostic much visible. Accessing ‌Visual Intelligence‌ successful ‌iOS 26‌ requires users to clasp down the Camera Control fastener oregon delegate the diagnostic to the Action button, and galore radical whitethorn not adjacent cognize it exists.

‌Visual Intelligence‌ tin place objects, plants, animals, art, books, and more, searching for immoderate the idiosyncratic snaps connected Google Image Search. In ‌iOS 27‌, ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to reply questions astir what a idiosyncratic is looking at, providing accusation from the web.

Apple is adding caller ‌Visual Intelligence‌ capabilities successful ‌iOS 27‌, and they volition beryllium disposable done the Camera app ‌Siri‌ mode.

Nutrition - Users tin scan nutrition labels connected nutrient packaging for calorie and macronutrient tracking utilizing the Health app.

Contacts - ‌Visual Intelligence‌ volition fto users scan telephone numbers and addresses connected concern cards and different people media, adding the accusation to the Contacts app.

Apple plans to marque the Camera app more customizable successful ‌iOS 27‌. iPhone users volition beryllium capable to regenerate the apical enactment of camera shortcuts with options of their choosing, selecting features similar flash, exposure, timer, extent of field, photograph styles, and resolution.

Camera controls, present labeled arsenic widgets, tin beryllium placed astatine the apical of the Camera interface successful immoderate order. Users tin prime widgets from a transparent widget tray that comes up from the bottommost of the app and organizes widgets into categories similar basic, manual, and settings.

The Camera app volition person the aforesaid default layout that's disposable present with speedy pat buttons for flash, Live Photos, and Night Mode, but the customizable widget interface volition beryllium added arsenic an precocious layout that volition entreaty to nonrecreational users.

iPhone users tin presently pat connected an icon astatine the apical close of the Camera app to entree each of the Camera controls, but Apple is moving that presumption to the close of the shutter fastener successful ‌iOS 27‌.

The Camera app is besides going to get caller grid and level options that volition articulation the existing features.

Photos

The ‌Photos‌ app volition person an Apple Intelligence Tools section erstwhile editing an image. According to Bloomberg, determination volition beryllium caller Extend and Reframe options.

Extend - Extend generates further representation contented beyond the archetypal framework of the photo, filling successful scenery erstwhile changing the harvest of an image. This instrumentality volition enactment expanding the edges of an representation with zoom gestures.

Reframe - When utilized with spatial photos, Reframe volition fto users alteration the position of an representation aft it's captured.

Apple is besides investigating an AI photograph editing diagnostic that lets users petition edits utilizing earthy language. Users would beryllium capable to tweak color, lighting, cropping, and different representation parameters without having to usage manual tools. The natural-language editing diagnostic whitethorn not get successful the archetypal mentation of ‌iOS 27‌.

Shortcuts

The ‌iOS 27‌ Shortcuts app will enactment utilizing earthy language to make a shortcut with AI. Users volition beryllium capable to archer ‌Siri‌ what they privation to execute with a multi-step shortcut, and ‌Siri‌ volition make it.

The Shortcuts app volition unfastened with a punctual that says "What bash you privation your shortcut to do?" with a substance tract to participate a description. Shortcuts that are created utilizing AI are past automatically installed and instantly disposable for use.

Wallet

The Wallet app is getting a "Create a Pass" enactment truthful users tin make integer passes from scans of carnal items similar movie tickets, performance passes, and gym rank cards.

Users tin pat connected the "+" fastener successful the Wallet app and past scan a QR codification connected a walk oregon summons if 1 is available. If determination is nary QR codification available, determination volition beryllium an enactment to make a customized pass.

There are 3 walk types successful Create a Pass, each with a antithetic color. Apple is utilizing purple for events, bluish for memberships, and orangish for different types of passes. Users tin customize images, colors, style, and substance connected the integer passes.

Apple is besides adding an AI bill-splitting diagnostic that volition enactment with Apple Cash. iPhone users volition be capable to instrumentality a photo of a receipt and make Apple Cash outgo requests for antithetic people.

Image Playground and Genmoji

Apple is updating the ‌Image Playground‌ app. The interface for generating a caller representation has less controls and a "describe a change" enactment for editing images that are created. Previously created images are displayed successful a grid with much rounded edges, and alternatively of a New Image button, there's a "+" button.

Apple has besides been investigating caller models that nutrient much lifelike images, truthful we could spot caller representation procreation capabilities successful ‌iOS 27‌ with amended representation quality.

Genmoji is besides getting an update truthful it volition usage less resources, causing little artillery drain and less vigor problems. ‌Genmoji‌ volition beryllium amended prime with a caller ‌Genmoji‌ model, and a Suggested ‌Genmoji‌ diagnostic volition bring up customized emoji ideas based connected your media and substance history.

Writing Tools

Apple is investigating an expanded mentation of Writing Tools that volition bash much rewriting and substance procreation than the existent version. There is simply a "Write with ‌Siri‌" toggle astatine the apical of the keyboard, according to Bloomberg, on with a "Help Me Write" enactment that comes up erstwhile ‌Siri‌ is activated portion a substance tract is open.

Apple is going to adhd a dedicated AI grammar checker that volition enactment alongside the existent spell check. When penning successful Messages, Mail, and different apps determination volition beryllium a translucent paper that slides up from the bottommost of the iPhone's screen, and it volition amusement suggested revisions adjacent to the archetypal written text.

Users tin spell done the suggestions and judge oregon cull them 1 by one, o.k. each of the changes astatine once, oregon disregard the changes.

Other Features

Wallpaper - There volition beryllium an enactment to make customized wallpapers with the ‌Image Playground‌ app, with the diagnostic built into the interface for selecting a caller wallpaper.

Safari - Safari volition get an updated commencement leafage with 4 tabs for switching betwixt favorites, bookmarks, Reading List, and history.

Calendar - Rumors suggest the Calendar app volition incorporated caller AI features. ‌Siri‌ volition besides beryllium capable to gully connected accusation successful the app.

Health - With a caller calorie scanning diagnostic coming to the Camera app, calorie tracking volition beryllium much salient successful the Health app. Apple was besides readying a Health+ subscription service, and portion that's been scaled back, determination could beryllium different AI wellness app changes.

Weather - The Weather app volition person a caller Conditions sheet for switching betwixt temperature, rain, and upwind from the main interface, without the request to pat into a upwind module.

AirPods settings - The AirPods interface successful the Settings app volition beryllium simplified, with options featuring amended organization. Major features similar proceeding wellness volition beryllium easier to find.

AirPlay Alternatives - Apple is adding a diagnostic that volition fto users beam contented to AirPlay alternatives similar Google Cast. It could beryllium constricted to iPhone users successful the EU due to the fact that it is being implemented arsenic a Digital Markets Act requirement.

iOS 27 System-Wide Design Changes

There are system-wide plan changes coming successful ‌iOS 27‌. The abstracted tab barroom successful apps similar Apple Music, Podcasts, News, and ‌Apple TV‌ volition beryllium adjusted to harvester hunt with the different navigation options. Apple separated hunt successful galore apps erstwhile introducing Liquid Glass, but it's reverting to the archetypal look.

When utilizing the on-screen keyboard, there's a caller animation that shows the keys sliding up from the bottommost of the iPhone interface, and Apple is adding redo and undo controls for easier customization of the ‌Home Screen‌'s icon and widget layouts.

Apple doesn't program to make large changes to the Liquid Glass aesthetic successful ‌iOS 27‌, but the institution is mulling a system-wide setting that would precisely set the look of the interface. In iOS 26.2, Apple added a slider that lets users set the opacity of Liquid Glass for the Lock Screen's clock, and that mounting could beryllium expanded to the full operating system.

iOS 27 Updates for Foldable iPhone

The archetypal foldable iPhone volition beryllium introduced successful September. Rumors suggest that it volition diagnostic a 5.5-inch show erstwhile folded, and a 7.8-inch show erstwhile it's opened up similar a book.

An iPhone with a larger show volition necessitate large updates to iOS, and ‌iOS 27‌ volition absorption connected building caller interfaces and experiences made for a larger smartphone display.

The iPhone Fold volition run similar a transverse betwixt an iPhone and an iPad, but it volition tally iOS, not iPadOS, and it won't enactment ‌iPad‌ apps. When unfolded, the iPhone volition person an iPad-like layout that supports multitasking with 2 apps side-by-side. Many of Apple's iPhone apps volition person sidebars connected the near of the display, with Apple providing developers with tools to easy accommodate their apps to the caller layout.

Apple is utilizing a wider plan for the ‌iPhone Fold‌ than astir foldable smartphone makers person used, and it is rumored to person an iPad-like 4:3 facet ratio. When the iPhone is closed, it volition person a modular iPhone layout that looks similar the mentation of iOS we person now.

iOS 27 Satellite Features

Apple is moving connected several caller outer features for the iPhone, and it's imaginable immoderate features could beryllium introduced arsenic soon arsenic 2027.

Apple Maps via satellite

‌Photos‌ successful Messages via satellite

Satellite API model for third-party apps

Satellite implicit 5G

Satellite connectivity without the request for a presumption of the sky

iOS 27 Accessibility Updates

Each May, Apple previews caller accessibility features that are coming aboriginal successful the year. This year, Apple showed disconnected immoderate caller options that are expected successful the ‌iOS 27‌ update.

Apple is adding caller ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features to VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader.

VoiceOver Image Explorer uses ‌Apple Intelligence‌ for elaborate descriptions of images passim the system, including photographs, scanned bills, and idiosyncratic records. Users tin property the Action fastener connected the iPhone to inquire questions astir what the camera viewfinder sees, with follow-up questions supported successful earthy language.

Magnifier brings Apple Intelligence-powered ocular descriptions to its high-contrast interface for users with debased vision, with enactment for spoken commands similar "zoom in" oregon "turn connected flashlight."

Voice Control gains earthy connection input truthful users tin picture onscreen elements conversationally, specified arsenic "tap the usher astir champion restaurants" oregon "tap the purple folder," alternatively than memorizing nonstop statement names oregon numbers. Apple says the diagnostic tin besides assistance erstwhile users privation to entree on-screen elements that don't person wide accessibility labels.

Accessibility Reader gains enactment for much analyzable papers layouts including technological articles with aggregate columns, images, and tables, positive on-demand summaries and built-in translation that retains a user's customized font, color, and formatting preferences.

Generated Subtitles usage on-device code designation to automatically transcribe spoken audio successful uncaptioned video content, including clips recorded connected iPhone, received from friends and family, oregon streamed online, crossed the iPhone, ‌iPad‌, Mac, ‌Apple TV‌, and Apple Vision Pro. The diagnostic volition beryllium disposable successful English successful the U.S. and Canada astatine launch.

iOS 27 Performance and Stability

Bloomberg has described iOS 27 arsenic a "Snow Leopard" update, suggesting that Apple volition absorption connected improving underlying show and quality.

Apple is prioritizing cleaning up the iOS codification and removing thing that's outdated, which could mean upgrading apps to amended show and rewriting immoderate existing features to beryllium much efficient. The codification updates could supply a much responsive, faster mentation of iOS.

Apple is besides aiming for ratio improvements that could construe into tangible artillery beingness gains.

iOS 27 Compatibility

‌iOS 27‌ is expected to driblet enactment for the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and second-generation iPhone SE. It volition beryllium disposable connected each different iPhones that enactment ‌iOS 26‌.

iPadOS 27

Many of the features that are coming successful ‌iOS 27‌ volition besides widen to the ‌iPad‌, including each of the caller ‌Siri‌ capabilities. We haven't heard rumors of iPad-specific features arsenic of yet.

macOS 27

Like ‌iOS 27‌ and iPadOS 27, ‌macOS 27‌ volition follow the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ with chatbot capabilities, idiosyncratic discourse and the quality to entree information connected your Mac, and improved integration successful and betwixt apps. A standalone ‌Siri‌ app for the Mac is likely.

We've heard a batch astir what ‌Siri‌ volition look similar connected the iPhone, with it acceptable to beryllium integrated into the ‌Dynamic Island‌, but nary item connected however ‌Siri‌ volition look connected the Mac. The ‌Siri‌ Mac interface volition beryllium much of a surprise.

The ‌Photos‌ app diagnostic for AI reframing and extending an representation volition beryllium available, arsenic volition the text-based enactment to make a Shortcut with earthy connection commands. Grammar checking capabilities volition beryllium added to Writing Tools, and ‌Image Playground‌ and ‌Genmoji‌ volition spot improvements to the underlying models. Apple is experimenting with much realistic models, truthful ‌Image Playground‌ mightiness beryllium capable to make contented that's not truthful cartoonish.

Safari is expected to person a caller diagnostic that uses AI to automatically radical tabs that are akin to 1 another, expanding connected the tab groups feature.

In ‌iOS 27‌, we're getting immoderate insignificant tweaks to Liquid Glass, including tab bars that bash distant with the standalone hunt enactment and perchance a slider for adjusting the wide look of Liquid Glass, but we cognize little astir what to expect for Liquid Glass connected the Mac. There has been disapproval of the Mac's Liquid Glass interface successful particular, truthful Apple could person changes planned.

Bloomberg claims Apple is moving connected a "slight redesign" for ‌macOS 27‌, with plans to code "quirks" with shadows and transparency.

Apple is moving connected an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, truthful determination could beryllium caller touch-based interface options hidden successful ‌macOS 27‌. The OLED ‌MacBook Pro‌ apt isn't launching until aboriginal 2027, truthful it's not thing we're expecting to spot successful the motorboat mentation of ‌macOS 27‌.

macOS Naming

We don't cognize what Apple is going to telephone ‌macOS 27‌, but it volition apt proceed to person a California landmark name. The filename of Apple's hashmoji for WWDC 2026 connected X is "Project Big Bear," starring to speculation that Apple mightiness spell with macOS Big Bear.

The filename could beryllium unrelated to ‌macOS 27‌, and it's imaginable Apple volition take thing other entirely. Apple has trademarked aggregate California-themed names successful the past, including Diablo, Grizzly, Mammoth, Miramar, Pacific, Redtail, Redwood, Shasta, Skyline, and Tiburon.

Performance Improvements

Apple has been moving connected refinements to macOS that volition see bug fixes, show improvements, and tweaks to boost artillery life.

No More Intel Macs

Apple is dropping enactment for Intel Macs with ‌macOS 27‌, truthful if you person an Intel Mac, it's not going to beryllium capable to tally the caller Mac software. macOS Tahoe is the past mentation of macOS that volition enactment connected Intel Macs.

Apple is besides phasing retired Rosetta 2 support, and ‌macOS 27‌ volition beryllium the past mentation of macOS that includes it. Rosetta 2 lets Apple silicon Macs tally apps built for Intel Macs, truthful older apps that inactive person the outdated architecture volition nary longer enactment successful macOS 28.

Current Intel Macs that tally ‌macOS Tahoe‌ but won't tally ‌macOS 27‌ see the 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ from 2020, the 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ from 2019, the 27-inch iMac from 2020, and the 2019 Mac Pro.

watchOS 27

In watchOS 27, Apple plans to introduce caller ticker faces, including a variant of the Modular Ultra face. The caller ticker look volition person a ample clip readout with 3 complications, and it volition beryllium disposable for each Apple Watch models.

We haven't heard thing other astir caller watchOS 27 features, and Apple Watch bundle updates thin to beryllium connected the smaller side. With Apple readying to adhd an enactment for generating a wallpaper utilizing AI connected the iPhone, it's imaginable determination could beryllium immoderate Apple Watch equivalent feature.

Some of the caller ‌Siri‌ features could enactment connected the watch, and immoderate of the AI features mightiness transition, similar grammar correction erstwhile penning oregon dictating connected the watch.

tvOS 27

We haven't heard thing astir tvOS 27, and ‌Apple TV‌ updates are usually not ace exciting. With the ‌Apple TV‌ expected to beryllium refreshed with a spot that works with ‌Apple Intelligence‌ aboriginal this year, we could spot Apple present immoderate AI features for the ‌Apple TV‌.

Better TV and movie recommendations are a possibility, arsenic is simply a much susceptible ‌Siri‌ that is amended astatine handling requests. There could besides beryllium caller astute location integrations that volition enactment alongside a centralized astute location hub Apple is rumored to beryllium launching this year. One diagnostic we bash cognize astir is larger text, which is an Accessibility enactment Apple is adding.

visionOS 27

visionOS 27 volition seemingly beryllium "light connected caller features," but it could get the aforesaid AI app updates and ‌Siri‌ changes that are coming to Apple's different platforms.

New Hardware?

There are respective products that Apple is inactive expected to motorboat successful 2026, but it's not looking similar immoderate of them are going to beryllium unveiled astatine WWDC. With respective caller bundle updates to screen and an all-new mentation of ‌Siri‌, Apple whitethorn not privation to instrumentality the absorption distant from its bundle announcements.

We are expecting M5 Mac Studio and Mac mini updates astatine immoderate point, positive determination could beryllium a caller ‌iMac‌. Unfortunately, precocious RAM costs and spot shortages mean delayed Mac refreshes, and caller models aren't expected until aboriginal successful the year.

The low-cost ‌iPad‌ inactive hasn't been refreshed, and updates for the HomePod mini and ‌Apple TV‌ are seemingly acceptable to go. There's besides a caller astute location hub tied to the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌, but it's not apt to travel retired until ‌Siri‌ sees an authoritative motorboat successful the fall.

How to Watch

‌WWDC 2026‌ begins astatine 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time connected June 8. Apple plans to watercourse the WWDC keynote connected YouTube, the ‌Apple TV‌ app everyplace it's available, and the Apple Events website.

For those who are incapable to ticker the livestream, we'll person unrecorded sum astatine MacRumors.com and the MacRumorsLive X (Twitter) account.

Launch Timeline

Betas of ‌iOS 27‌, iPadOS 27, ‌macOS 27‌, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 volition beryllium seeded to developers aft Apple's keynote event. Public betas volition travel retired successful July, and aft respective months of testing, the updates volition motorboat to the nationalist successful the fall.

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Resident Evil: Code Veronica Remake announced at Summer Game Fest, coming in 2027

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:48 -0400

Resident Evil: Veronica has been announced astatine Summer Game Fest. The crippled volition merchandise successful 2027 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Netease action stunner Blood Message gets gorgeous cinematic trailer at Summer Game Fest

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:47 -0400

Blood Message - the upcoming enactment escapade crippled by Netease - conscionable got a stunning caller trailer astatine Summer Game Fest.

Cuphead 2 in the works at Studio MDHR, as well as a new arcade shooter based on the series

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:47 -0400

A caller hand-animated Cuphead crippled is successful improvement from Studio MDHR. The quality was shared with a abbreviated conception during this evening's Summer Game Fest showcase. This upcoming crippled volition instrumentality Cuphead's characters connected a "fresh, breathtaking adventure".

Fumito Ueda, legendary developer behind Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, announces single-player epic Gen Atlas for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:47 -0400

Fumito Ueda, the creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, revealed his adjacent sci-fi task at tonight's Summer Game Fest - the archetypal large accusation driblet we've seen astir the crippled since its uncover back astatine The Game Awards 2024.

Crossfire is a new tactical, single-player action game from former Modern Warfare 2019 and Naughty Dog leads

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:46 -0400

Crossfire was revealed contiguous during Summer Game Fest's opening ceremony. This is the debut rubric from That's No Moon, an autarkic workplace featuring cardinal endowment down the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot's campaign, and Naughty Dog earlier that.

Here's our best look yet at Alien: Isolation 2 as one of the greatest horror games ever prepares to return

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:46 -0400

On Alien: Isolation's 10th day a mates of years ago, manager Al Hope shared immoderate breathtaking news: a precise long-awaited sequel was yet successful development. Beyond that, we learned small else. Earlier this year, however, we got our first teaser trailer, and today, during Summer Game Fest's large showcase extravaganza, we've had our champion look yet astatine Alien: Isolation 2.

Three years later, that 'dark' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game gets a first trailer, and it's being created by Bayonetta studio Platinum Games

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:46 -0400

Some 3 years aft it was announced an unnamed developer was taking the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles successful a darker video crippled absorption with a task inspired by the well-regarded TMNT graphic caller The Last Ronin, the crippled has yet - albeit vaguely - been unveiled. And it turns retired the mysterious squad down it is nary different than famed Bayonetta, Nier: Automata, and Ninja Gaiden 4 developer Platinum Games.

Guild Wars 3 announced at Summer Game Fest, beta releasing in Fall 2027

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:45 -0400

Guild Wars 3 has been announced astatine Summer Game Fest. It volition beryllium playable done a beta travel autumn 2027.

Control Resonant is how video games should be done

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:45 -0400

There are, aft a bully fewer hours playing it, rather a fewer games similar Control Resonant. It's an RPG with a benignant of pseudo open-world - an "open-ended modern world" I judge was Remedy's mode of putting it successful its presumption to the property earlier this week - and it has accomplishment trees and immoderate airy resource-gathering and item-upgrading. It has immoderate airy platforming with a double-jump and a dash, and melee combat with cleanable dodges and aerial combos.

Congress still can’t decide what to do about warrantless surveillance

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:40 -0400

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from present connected June 12th, and legislators look nary person to reaching a deal. If this sounds similar deja vu, it's due to the fact that we've been present before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 successful precocious April - but lone for 45 days, truthful lawmakers could negociate reforms to the arguable wiretapping authority.

"There were nary reformers successful immoderate of the conversations that happened. Full stop," Sean Vitka, the enforcement manager of Demand Progress, said connected a property telephone Friday afternoon, hours aft the Senate voted 52 to 47 against a woody that would person renewed …

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Control Resonant is a sequel — and also a starting point

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:39 -0400

Chronologically, Control Resonant is simply a sequel to 2019's Control. But successful astir different ways, the games aren't directly connected. To developer Remedy, they're much similar 2 sides of the aforesaid coin.

When Resonant was archetypal revealed past year, originative manager Mikael Kasurinen said you tin play the games successful immoderate order. The satellite of Control is reality-bending successful tons of ways, but the wide linear progression of clip isn't truly 1 of them - however would idiosyncratic commencement with the sequel?

It didn't click until I played Resonant myself. In a two-plus-hour preview earlier this week, I played the opening enactment of the game, arsenic good arsenic a aboriginal communicative ngo …

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Rolls-Royce Spectre Series II Gets More Power And Range, But You'll Really Care About The Redesigned Clock And Absurd Trim Options

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:31 -0400

The wide plan hasn't changed much, but the caller Spectre gets immoderate of the wildest and astir impressively intricate options you've ever seen connected a car.

Summer Game Fest Live 2026: The biggest news, trailers, and announcements

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:51 -0400

Geoff Keighley’s yearly June solemnisation of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the large unrecorded amusement that volition diagnostic a full clump of gaming quality and announcements, begins astatine 5PM ET and is acceptable to tally for 2 hours. The lawsuit itself volition instrumentality spot successful idiosyncratic astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles, but it volition besides beryllium streaming live connected YouTube.

Summer Game Fest Live sits squarely successful the mediate of a large tally of video crippled showcases; PlayStation hosted a State of Play connected Tuesday, and the Xbox Games Showcase takes spot connected Sunday. That doesn’t mean determination won’t beryllium immoderate large surprises, though. Last year, for example, Capcom utilized the amusement to denote Resident Evil Requiem. According to this year’s livestream’s description, expect a “live look astatine what’s adjacent successful video games, with caller crippled announcements, astonishment peculiar guests and more,” and portion that’s not precise specific, Keighley astir apt has immoderate flashy quality successful store.

Read connected for our sum of the biggest updates from the show.

10 Of The Most Reliable European Cars You Can Get In The US

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:40 -0400

European cars often get a atrocious rap for reliability, but it doesn't use to each models. These are immoderate of the astir dependable European cars disposable successful the U.S.

BMW 325i Wagon, Dodge Ramcharger, Police Tank: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:40 -0400

Well, whether you've had a unsmooth week oregon not, I deliberation you merit a reward.

International Space Station Astronauts Ordered To Prepare For Evacuation, As If They Have Somewhere Else To Go

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:36 -0400

Evacuating erstwhile a hurricane comes is atrocious enough, tin you ideate evacuating the lone land of habitability successful an different acold and infinite expanse?

Subaru Recalls 70,000 Foresters Because The Moonroofs Could Fly Off

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:35 -0400

According to Subaru, it isn't alert of immoderate related crashes oregon injuries but it did person 3 method reports successful the U.S.

The Military Is Drilling Special Operations Raids In The Heart Of The LA Area, But Don't Panic

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:35 -0400

From a information perspective, municipality subject drills tin beryllium disastrous.

GMC Made The Hummer X For Me And My Climbing Polycule, And We Don't Want It

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:35 -0400

Responses to the Hummer X included "Who is this for," "I deliberation its silly," "That car looks it was ai generated successful 2022,"and possibly astir succinctly, "oh one f*cking hatred this."

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies aged 72

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:53 -0400

British histrion Anthony Head, known wide for his portrayal of Giles successful the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died from complications owed to pneumonia, aged 72 years old.

Gone in 60 minutes

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:46 -0400

Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images

It should person been the last straw. The caller powerfulness mates of editorial nonaccomplishment - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley. Why? Because helium dared to question the information that CBS had installed sycophants successful its apical ranks. Instead of lasting successful solidarity, correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim declared successful a associated memo to unit that they'd enactment connected to prevention the program. "We don't privation to spot 60 Minutes die," they said. The kids successful Weekend astatine Bernie's held a akin position.

The canary successful the media ember excavation isn't conscionable sick, it's a charred skeleton.

The remaining trio of correspond …

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BMW Wants To Replace Factory Workers With Human-Shaped Robots

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:39 -0400

The robot utilized successful BMW's aviator program, tin beryllium fitted with a assortment of tools connected its hands and utilized to nutrient batteries and components for vehicles.

F1 Will Race In Las Vegas Until 2037 After 10-Year Extension

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:38 -0400

The Las Vegas Grand Prix has rapidly go 1 of the fewer marquee rounds of the title calendar that doesn't nutrient a boring on-track product.

Chrome Sets Browser Speed Records on M5 MacBook Pro

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:53 -0400

Google's Chrome browser deed caller records connected browser benchmarking tools Speedometer 3.1 and JetStream 3, Google said today.

Chrome earned a people of 61 connected Speedometer, a 5 percent betterment since past year. It earned a 469 connected JetStream 3, a 10 percent betterment since the opening of 2026. Tests were done connected an M5 MacBook Pro moving macOS 26.0.1.

Google says it holds a dual grounds crossed each browsers, beating each different Mac browser, including Safari.

Google reworked JavaScript handling to boost its benchmarking scores, skipping unnecessary execution steps and inlining asynchronous operations. Inlining "fast paths" for communal operations resulted successful velocity gains crossed aggregate regular tasks.

Improvements were besides implemented for WebAssembly workloads and the Blink rendering engine, with details disposable on Google's Chromium blog.

Google says the benchmarking wins construe into a "meaningfully faster" browsing acquisition for Chrome users.

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The Sonos Era 100 speaker is down to its lowest price in months

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:40 -0400

Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos talker setup, oregon adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worthy picking up. The compact, susceptible astute talker is presently marked down to $189 ($30 off) astatine a assortment of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and straight from Sonos. If you privation an adjacent little price, Sonos is selling refurbished Era 100 speakers for conscionable $134. They travel with caller accessories and packaging, and athletics the aforesaid one-year warranty arsenic its caller speakers.

Sonos Era 100

The Era 100 is Sonos’s astir affordable in-home astute speaker. Offering pleasant dependable astatine a comparatively compact size, it improves upon the anterior Sonos One with stereo audio, line-in support, and Bluetooth support. Read our review.

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The wireless talker has a rich, elaborate dependable profile, with room-filling audio contempt its tiny size. You mightiness beryllium capable to amended the dependable further with the Sonos Trueplay feature, which uses either your telephone oregon the speaker’s built-in microphone to automatically tune it to your space. The Era 100 tin easy link with different speakers successful the Sonos ecosystem for multi-room play, adjacent with antithetic Sonos models.

The Era 100 has expanded functionality from erstwhile entry-level Sonos speakers, adding successful Bluetooth and USB-C wired audio, arsenic good arsenic improved onboard controls. While the talker features built-in dependable adjunct enactment for some Sonos and Alexa, you tin flip a power connected its backmost to chopped powerfulness to the microphone.

Read our afloat Sonos Era 100 review.

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The Google Nest Doorbell is 1 of our favourite video doorbells, and the wired mentation is presently marked down astatine Amazon to conscionable $140 ($40 off). This doorbell has reasonably crisp 960 x 1280 video quality, notifications for radical and packages (a Google Home Premium subscription tin supply much elaborate notifications, including acquainted look recognition), and afloat integration with galore different Google products. The wired exemplary has sharper video and faster effect times than the battery-powered version. Read our review.
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The Technics EAH-AZ80 wireless earbuds person a earthy warmth and expansive soundstage that rivals immoderate of our different favourite picks. They besides athletics fantabulous progressive noise-canceling and three-way multipoint pairing, but their precocious motorboat terms didn’t bash them immoderate favors. However, astatine the discounted terms of $147.99 ($52 off) astatine Amazon, they’re a overmuch much appealing pick. Read our review.

CalDigit TS5 and Element 5 Hub Review: Two Thunderbolt 5 Docks for Apple's Latest Macs

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:54 -0400

CalDigit is champion known for its docks and hubs, and it has 2 options designed for Apple's latest Macs. I reviewed the larger $500 20-port TS5 Plus past summer, and for the past mates of weeks, I've been investigating the $400 15-port TS5 that launched a spot aboriginal than the premium model, and the smaller $250 Element 5 Hub.

TS5

The TS5 is astir apt the Thunderbolt 5 dock that I would urge if idiosyncratic connected the thoroughfare came up to maine and asked which Thunderbolt 5 dock to buy. It's smaller and takes up little abstraction connected a table than the TS5 Plus, it has nary fans similar immoderate competing docks, and it has a utile larboard selection. With immoderate exceptions, it'll conscionable the needs of astir people.

Thunderbolt 5 docks are perfect for Apple's Thunderbolt 5 Macs (the M4 Pro, M4 Max, M5 Pro, and M5 Max), but they're besides backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 Macs, truthful you tin usage the TS5 with astir immoderate Mac to adhd ports for displays and accessories.

Ports connected the front:

Audio jack

USB-C with 10Gb/s speeds and 7.5W

USB-C with 10Gb/s speeds and 20W

MicroSD paper slot (UHS-II)

SD paper slot (UHS-II)

Ports connected the back:

Audio in/out

USB-C larboard with 10Gb/s speeds and 7.5W

USB-A larboard with 10Gb/s speeds and 7.5W

USB-A larboard with 480Mb/s speeds and 7.5W

2.5 GbE

Three downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports with 15W charging

One upstream Thunderbolt 5 larboard with 140W charging

The TS5 does not person dual USB controllers similar the TS5 Plus, it has 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet alternatively of 10GbE, it doesn't person DisplayPort, and it has 3 less USB-A ports and 2 less USB-C ports than the TS5 Plus. The TS5 has 3 downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports alternatively of two, truthful it beats the TS5 Plus (which lone has two), but the higher-end TS5 Plus has much charging power. The beforehand USB-C larboard connected the TS5 Plus is 36W, arsenic are the 2 downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports astatine the back.

The TS5 has the aforesaid wide plan that CalDigit has utilized for its past respective docks. It's made from a abstraction grey aluminum worldly with ribbing connected the apical and sides for dissipating heat. Though it has nary fan, it ne'er got beyond lukewarm successful my testing, and I was amazed astatine however chill it stayed. The TS5 Plus ran overmuch warmer erstwhile I tested it, but the smaller TS5 wouldn't support maine cozy connected a freezing night.

The dock's plan blends successful good with a table setup, but similar astir Thunderbolt 5 docks, it's not going to crook immoderate heads. I don't person abstraction grey instrumentality truthful the colour doesn't lucifer my MacBook oregon my Studio Display, but it doesn't look excessively retired of place. I privation accessory makers would follow bolder, brighter colors, but I'm guessing grey and achromatic are what sell.

CalDigit's TS5 dock is astir 5.5 inches tall, 4.5 inches wide, and a small nether 2 inches thick. It fits good nether a display, and it tin beryllium positioned either upright oregon connected its side. There is simply a abstracted 240W powerfulness brick, and that's emblematic for astir Thunderbolt 5 docks. Along with the powerfulness supply, CalDigit includes a braided 1-meter Thunderbolt 5 cable, and I admit the cablegram upgrade due to the fact that not each docks travel with bully cables.

One happening I admit astir CalDigit implicit immoderate different dock makers is the info the website provides. I deliberation the mean idiosyncratic astir apt finds hubs and docks somewhat confusing, particularly erstwhile it comes to determining which displays and however galore outer displays a dock supports with a fixed Mac. CalDigit has an extended chart with each Apple silicon Macs listed, truthful it's reasonably casual to spot what your Mac volition support. Thunderbolt 5 supports up to 80Gb/s speeds with bandwidth boost up to 120Gb/s for displays, doubly that of Thunderbolt 4.

The TS5 supports up to 4 6K 60Hz displays, but lone if you're utilizing a Mac with an M5 Max chip. It'll besides tally dual 8K 60Hz displays, dual 4K 240Hz displays, oregon 4 4K displays with up to a 144Hz refresh rate. When utilized with an M5 Pro Mac, the dock supports up to 3 6K 60Hz displays, and for Macs with earlier Pro/Max chips, the dock is constricted to dual displays. You tin powerfulness dual 8K 60Hz displays utilizing the TS5 with an M4 Max oregon M5 Max Mac, portion different machines headdress retired with 2 6K 60Hz displays. The basal M-series chips person antithetic enactment depending connected procreation too. The M4 and M5 chips tin enactment 2 outer displays up to 6K astatine 60Hz with the TS5, but M1 and M2 chips lone enactment one. The M3 is simply a peculiar objection due to the fact that it supports 2 displays erstwhile the Mac is successful clamshell mode, oregon 1 with the show open.

I tested with a ‌Studio Display‌ and a ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, some of which are 5K displays. I besides tested with a ‌Studio Display‌ and a 32-inch 120Hz OLED display, and I didn't tally into immoderate issues with either setup.

There is 1 5K show regulation that imaginable buyers should beryllium alert of, and that's enactment for the LG UltraFine 5K monitors. The dock does not enactment dual LG UltraFine 5K displays unless utilized with an M5 Max MacBook Pro.

I utilized each larboard astatine erstwhile and show was arsenic expected, but I did tally into an contented with the TS5 not recognizing SSDs. SSDs that I plugged into the 2 USB-C ports weren't popping up, but a Thunderbolt 5 SSD was fine. Unplugging the dock and plugging it successful again didn't work, but restarting my Mac did. I've had the aforesaid occupation intermittently, but aft the archetypal time, unplugging the dock and past plugging it backmost successful seemed to work. It doesn't hap each time, but losing SSD connectivity done the USB-C ports is simply a hassle.

The TS5 has 140W big charging, which is much than capable for each of Apple's notebooks. The Thunderbolt 5 ports and the 10Gb/s USB-C and USB-A ports person offline charging truthful you tin complaint accessories with the dock erstwhile your Mac isn't connected.

Element 5 Hub

I besides spent a abbreviated magnitude of clip with CalDigit's $250 Element 5 Hub, which is an awesome small device. It's arsenic tiny arsenic the 180W powerfulness ceramic it comes with, and it's the Thunderbolt 5 enactment to get if you request minimal ports.

The Element 5 Hub has 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports (one upstream, 3 downstream), 2 USB-C ports, and 3 USB-A ports. 90W big charging is disposable for a connected Mac, which is capable to support my 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ charged. The downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports person 15W for accessories, and the USB-C ports connection 7.5W. Like the TS5, the ports enactment adjacent erstwhile the hub isn't connected to a big computer.

Since determination are 3 Thunderbolt 5 ports, the Element 5 Hub tin thrust the aforesaid fig of displays arsenic the TS5. It doesn't person arsenic galore USB-C ports, nary SD paper slots, and nary audio jack, but if each you request is Thunderbolt and a mates of USB-C/USB-A ports, this is the mode to go.

I emotion however small abstraction the Element 5 takes up connected my desk, truthful overmuch truthful that I whitethorn follow 1 for semipermanent use. I bash usage SD paper slots, but the smaller size whitethorn beryllium worthy the sacrifice. The Element 5 is 2.75 inches wide, 4.5 inches long, and an inch thick. It's astir the aforesaid size arsenic my Thunderbolt 5 SSD, and smaller than an iPhone. If you privation compact, get this dock.

Bottom Line

I similar the TS5 implicit the TS5 Plus due to the fact that of the other Thunderbolt 5 larboard connected the TS5. I tin link 2 displays and inactive person a larboard for a Thunderbolt 5 SSD, which isn't the lawsuit with the TS5 Plus. Unfortunately, I'm continually moving into occupation wherever SSDs connected to the USB-C ports connected the dock don't work, and that makes it hard to urge to idiosyncratic who needs to usage it for retention purposes. I tin conscionable restart the dock, but I shouldn't person to. TB5 SSDs are fine, truthful are USB-C SSDs connected done a Thunderbolt port.

CalDigit's much costly TS5 Plus is simply a amended enactment than the TS5 if you request DisplayPort 2.1, 10GbE, oregon an absurd fig of USB-A ports (five for the TS5 Plus vs 2 for the TS5). The TS5 Plus besides has dual 10Gb/s USB controllers, which is utile if you privation to tally aggregate high-speed SSDs oregon drives astatine the aforesaid time.

If you lone request a constricted fig of ports, I'd decidedly urge checking retired the Element 5 Hub. It's compact, but inactive includes 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports, 3 USB-A ports, and 2 USB-C ports. I didn't look to person the aforesaid SSD occupation with the TS5 Plus oregon the Element 5.

I similar CalDigit's Thunderbolt 5 docks implicit competing docks from Anker and Satechi, chiefly due to the fact that CalDigit doesn't see fans and its docks run silently. The SSD occupation mightiness beryllium my peculiar dock oregon my ‌MacBook Pro‌, but if you prime up a TS5, get it from a spot with a instrumentality argumentation conscionable successful case.

I similar each of the docks I've tried truthful far, though, and they've each been bully options with nary large problems. I'd prime Anker's Prime Thunderbolt 5 dock if I wanted a dock with nary outer powerfulness supply, oregon Satechi's CubeDock if I wanted a built-in SSD oregon had a Mac mini and wanted to lucifer it.

Thunderbolt 4 docks are cheaper than Thunderbolt 5 options, but if you person a Thunderbolt 5 Mac oregon are readying to get 1 successful the adjacent twelvemonth oregon two, it's worthy going for Thunderbolt 5 for the upgraded bandwidth.

How to Buy

The CalDigit TS5 tin beryllium purchased from the CalDigit website oregon from Amazon for $400.

The Element 5 Hub is available from the CalDigit website oregon from Amazon for $250.

Note: CalDigit provided MacRumors with a TS5 and Element 5 Hub for the intent of this review. No different compensation was received.

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