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In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch), fight cloud, apple core, orca, and ballet dancers. After Unicode 17 is released later this year, artists …

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: (i) a ∼3B-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon through architectural innovations such as KV-cache sharing and 2-bit quantization-aware training; and (ii) a scalable server model built on a novel Parallel-Track Mixture-of-Experts (PT-MoE) transformer that combines track parallelism, mixture-of-experts sparse computation, and …

It’s called simply Emoji Game, and each day you’re presented with three phrases, which have some letters filled in, but are mostly blank. There’s a partial hint as to what the word or phrase is that you’re trying to complete, and then a whole bunch of emoji at the bottom. The idea is to take the words or sounds the …

Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other …

Running around Los Angeles, I never found a spot with zero reception (I run e-sims, both Verizon and AT&T simultaneously, for this very reason), but I did purposefully enter airplane mode. This time, Ultra stayed active, and regardless, Apple assured me that essential functions, including navigation, can pre-load offline data for planned route guidance. But at the very worst, as …

Apple signs megadeal with operator of one-of-a-kind Calif. mine  SFGATE Apple just spent $500 million to source a material that’s critical for iPhones from the US  CNN Pentagon-Backed MP Materials Soars 255% — But Is a Crash Coming?  Yahoo Finance Pentagon takes $400 million stake in rare-earth miner  The Washington Post MP Materials Stock Jumps 20%. How Apple Gave It a Huge Boost.  Barron’s Source …

July 15, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple lands record-breaking 81 Emmy Award nominations, with Severance leading as this year’s most-nominated series and The Studio becoming the most-nominated freshman comedy in history Global phenomenon Severance scores 27 nominations for hit second season, including Outstanding Drama Series and nine performance category nominations Breakout comedy The Studio sweeps with 23 nominations, including Outstanding Comedy …

Key Takeaways MP Materials shares remain in focus after soaring 20% yesterday on news that Apple plans to invest $500 million in the rare earths firm, news that came just days after the Department of Defense took a stake in the company. The price recently staged a volume-backed breakaway gap above a flag pattern, accelerating the stock’s uptrend. The bars …

I just walked 5,000 steps with the new Galaxy Watch 8 Classic on my left wrist and the Apple Watch Series 10 on my right wrist to find out which flagship smartwatch is the more accurate fitness tracker. In addition to manually counting my steps during the walk as a control, I ran Strava on my smartphone for distance, climb …

A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations. Here’s what that means, and how they did it. ILuvUI: an AI that outperformed the model it was based on In the paper, ILuvUI: Instruction-tuned LangUage-Vision modeling of UIs from Machine …