Technology News for Saturday 15th June 2024

1. Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives

Not any more. This week's hotly anticipated unveiling of Apple Intelligence — Apple's audacious attempt to stamp its own brand on to generative artificial intelligence — was an uneven and unoriginal demonstration that seemed ...

2. Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm and other chip giants are helping Microsoft battle Apple for AI's future

The Ryzen AI 300 series of parts, meanwhile, is a new chip built specifically for the AI PC laptop segment, combining a new CPU architecture, upgraded graphics design, and an NPU (neural processing unit) capable of 50 TOPS (trillions of operations per ...

3. Apple's new AI-powered service is everything we'd hoped Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa would become

By Mike Feibus. Apple's WWDC announcement is all about you and your digital life. Sometimes, when I jot down an idea or snap a picture of another birthday dinner, I get the sinking feeling that I'll never see it again. Any of it.

4. Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang

Apple will finally adopt RCS in iOS 18, effectively ending a yearslong fight for feature parity between iMessage and Android. But the announcement wasn't a celebration — you could've blinked and missed it. Instead of showing how RCS will make things ...