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Apple is gearing up to reveal a new AI system on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac next week at WWDC 2024 — and it will be called Apple Intelligence, according to a report from Bloomberg. In addition to providing new “beta” AI features across Apple’s platforms and apps, it will reportedly offer access to a new ChatGPT-like chatbot powered by



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Starting this fall, it appears Siri is going to be much more powerful. Whether this is good news or a harbinger of infinite technological frustration depends on how you feel about Siri, AI, virtual assistants, and the whole idea that your devices should be able to do stuff on your behalf. Either way, it seems virtually certain that at Apple’s



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Social media is central in many of our lives, but few would say that’s a good thing. Despite its initial promise, swathes of Europeans feel the technology has had a negative impact on society. While it promised to bring us together, the opposite has happened.  Just look at any event from the past few years; whether it’s the war in Ukraine, countries swinging towards populism, or digital election



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Every year, Apple’s WWDC comes third after Google’s I/O and Microsoft’s Build developer conferences, and Apple has hardly ever needed to announce a product in response. This time, however, things are different.

Over the past month, Apple’s biggest rivals presented bold plans for AI, with Google showing its latest Gemini models and Microsoft revealing



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House of the Dragon’s Matt Smith and Rings of Power’s Morfydd Clark get into some creepy tree business for Starve Acre. Doctor Who shows off some feathery new aliens from its latest episode. Plus, when to expect the return of Daryl and Carol in their Walking Dead spinoff. Spoilers get!

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TL;DR: A wide range of online courses from Stanford University are available to take for free on edX.


Stanford University is one of the biggest names in the education game, so it's probably really difficult to become a student of this famous institution, right? No, actually. Anyone can become a student of Stanford University with a little help from edX.

This online course provider offers a wide



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The Russian Federation Navy Adm. Gorshkov frigate arriving at Havana's port on June 24, 2019.
  • Russia is sending four warships to Havana, Cuba announced this week.
  • A US official says it's part of efforts to show Putin's navy is still a global power, per Reuters.
  • Russia's navy has suffered major losses to Ukraine in the Black Sea.

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  • US job growth in May was way stronger than the forecast.
  • Nonfarm payrolls increased by 272,000.
  • The US unemployment rate is no longer below 4%.

The May jobs report came in way hotter than expected, with the US adding 272,000 jobs while the unemployment rate slightly ticked up to 4.0%.

The job-growth forecast was 182,000, according to Investing.com. April's increase was


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NATO’s Innovation Fund has co-led a $22.5mn (€21mn) investment into iCOMAT, a UK startup building ultralight composites for the aerospace, automotive, and defence sectors. NATO’s fund has a budget of €1bn to back startups developing deep tech for defence and security applications. This marks its first public investment since it launched last year.        Founded in 2019 by Greek scientist



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With performance and especially efficiency that should scare Intel, Windows PCs running Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X Elite have strong appeal for content creators. The current problem is a lack of apps, but Blackmagic Design just announced that its popular (and free) DaVinci Resolve 19 (beta 3) video editing and effects software now supports Windows machines running the new chip.

"DaVinci



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TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX.


edX hosts so many free online courses that it's difficult to know where to start. With so much on offer, it's easy to feel lost.

We recommend taking some time to check everything out, but if that sounds like too much work, the selection of free online courses from MIT is probably a good place to start. You can find lessons on