Author: Woozad

Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote may have seemed relatively quiet on the Vision Pro side, but the visionOS 27 beta contains a decent amount of new features and quality of life improvements that are likely to be well received by the headset’s user base. As you might expect, visionOS 27 benefits from the new Apple Intelligence and Siri AI features that Apple brought to iOS 27 and macOS 27, but this time they feel more seamlessly integrated into the platform compared to previous efforts. For example, Vision Pro users can ask ‌Siri‌ about anything happening in their environment, and with visual…

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Nintendo is also releasing Switch 2 versions of older Xenoblade games A brand new Xenoblade game is coming to Switch 2 in 2027. It’s called Xenoblade Genesis and this was revealed during the latest Nintendo Direct livestream. We even got a juicy trailer with lots of gameplay and a detailed look at the world. To that end, it feels like a whole new story in a whole new world. We don’t know much about this story, other than that the protagonist is enrolled in some sort of magic school (which reminds me Final Fantasy VIII.) Nintendo promises more details on…

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Nomad today introduced two new products in its Stellar Orange colorway, expanding the number of accessories it offers in this unique shade. Stellar Orange matches the Cosmic Orange color that Apple used for the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max. The Stellar Orange Stand One is a 2-in-1 charging stand priced at $135. It was previously available in silver and carbide, but is now available in bright orange. This is a Qi2 charger that charges an iPhone MagSafe at up to 25W. The vertical charger supports charging an iPhone in portrait or landscape orientation for Stand By, and…

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Last year, singer Justin Bieber took to social media to complain about the placement of the dictation button in the text field of the Messages app on the iPhone, and Apple apparently listened. iOS 27 lets you disable the dictation button in the Settings app under Apps → Messages → Show in text field. Popular storiesGoogle introduces Android 17 with ‘Gemini Intelligence’ a month before Apple’s iOS 27 revealGoogle today previewed Android 17, the next version of Android it’s bringing to smartphones and other devices. Android 17 includes several new AI features, and it comes about a month before Apple…

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You’ll fight with and against up to seven other players in this action game. From the software The Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive from FromSoftware, Bloods of Twilightshould still arrive this year. We don’t have a release date yet — I hope FromSoft has the courage to try counter-programming Grand Theft Auto 6 in November – but it emerged during Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct that a closed network test would take place this summer. The latest trailer didn’t reveal much more, although we did get a few more glimpses of the Gothic, Transmitted by blood-esque frame. Bloods of…

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macOS 27 Golden Gate adds support for pull-to-refresh on Mac, adopting one of the iPhone and iPad’s most familiar gestures for the first time. The feature, which Apple calls “Swipe Down to Refresh,” lets users swipe down in apps to retrieve the most recent content, rather than relying on a keyboard shortcut or menu item. Apple has confirmed that Safari, Mail, News, Podcasts, and Calendar are among the apps supporting the gesture at launch. Pull-to-refresh has been a staple of iOS and iPadOS for many years, providing an intuitive, gesture-based way to update app content. Its arrival on macOS suggests…

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Apple has released a five-minute recap video summarizing key announcements from its WWDC26 Platform State of the Union, covering rebuilt intelligence frameworks, platform design changes, and major developer tooling updates. Apple said its Foundation models were completely rebuilt in collaboration with Google, leveraging technology from the Gemini family of models. The Foundation Models framework now supports image capture and cloud model integration, allowing developers to connect to any cloud model provider for more complex tasks. New dynamic profiles are also included to simplify the creation of AI agents and skills by swapping tools and updating instructions on the fly. Core…

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Apple shared updated adoption numbers for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, revealing how many iPhones and iPads were running those software versions the day before WWDC 2026 began and the first iOS 27 developer beta was released. These adoption figures are based on iPhones and iPads transacted in the App Store on Sunday, June 7, according to Apple. The statistics are as follows: 86% of all iPhones released in the last four years used iOS 26. 79% of all iPhones were running iOS 26. 79% of all iPads released in the last four years used iPadOS 26. 68% of all…

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Continuing a strong resurgence of the Silent Hill series, Konami and Screen Burn Interactive bring another different take on the dark horror series. The latter is best known for his narrative titles Untold stories And Observation and they decided to set their horror scenario in the early 90s, on a remote island off the coast of northern Scotland. Anyone who has visited the wild beauty of Scotland can attest: it is a region that can create its own thick, mysterious fog. Ideal for a chapter of Silent Hill. Fall of the town of Silent Hill is set in St. Amelia,…

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The European Commission responded to Apple’s announcement that Siri AI would not launch in the EU, saying the decision was entirely up to Apple and that the company was seeking an exemption from its legal obligations rather than a compliant solution. Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters in Brussels (via Reuters) that Apple had failed to develop interoperability solutions that met EU privacy and security standards and instead asked to get away with it altogether. The decision not to deploy Siri AI in the EU is solely up to Apple and Apple. Apple has simply been unable to develop interoperability…

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