Image: Apple Apple has announced the dates for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is always held in early June. This year is no exception, with the WWDC24 event taking place on June 10-14. That’s a week later than is typical, but not outside the usual timeframe. While the event focuses on developers and how...
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Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
Nvidia’s ongoing GTC developer conference in San Jose is, unsurprisingly, almost entirely about AI this year. But in between the AI developments, Nvidia has also made a couple of significant robotics announcements. First, there’s Project GR00T (with each letter and number pronounced individually so as not to invoke the wrath of Disney), a foundation model...
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Apple, Google team up to make Speedometer 3.0 benchmark faster and fairer
Image: Foundry A collaboration of developers announced on Monday that Speedometer 3.0, a new version of the online tool used to gauge the speed of web browsers. Developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, Speedometer 3.0 claims to be “a better way of measuring performance and a more representative set of tests that reflect the modern Web.”...
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Apple terminates Epic’s iOS developer account, dashing Fortnite fans’ hopes
Image: Epic Games Updated March 7: Apple sent us a statement explaining why it terminated the account. After the DMA forced Apple to open up its app ecosystem in the EU, Epic Games announced that it would bring its own game store to iOS in Europe and bring Fortnite back to the platform there. Though...
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Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state in 2024
This story was originally published by Canary Media. California and Texas have a new clean-energy superlative to compete over: who’s got the most grid batteries. Last year, Texas overtook California in large-scale solar power capacity. When huge amounts of solar power rush onto the grid, batteries tend to follow. Now, Texas is building more grid batteries than...
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Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional for only $45
Image: StackCommerce Software developers have a lot on their plates. They’re often responsible for designing, programming, building, deploying, and maintaining software, which requires different skills and tools to do the job right. Fortunately, Microsoft’s programming-friendly software can help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows is an incredibly helpful platform for many coders, and now, it’s available...
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Home Screen web apps are not going away after all
Image: Chris Martin / Foundry Update 03/01/24: Apple has updated its developer site to say that it has changed its mind, and will not remove the ability to have progressive web apps on the home screen after all. “Developers and users who may have been impacted by the removal of Home Screen web apps in...
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iOS 17.4 beta includes new CarPlay and Apple Maps ‘instrument cluster experience’
Image: Foundry Apple on Tuesday released beta 4 of the iOS 17.4 update and it has a new feature to try out if you have the proper car. According to the developer release notes, CarPlay with Apple Maps support has been updated: In iOS 17.4, with supported CarPlay vehicles, Apple Maps will present a new instrument...
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AI-enhanced Xcode rumored to lead Apple’s push into AI-boosted iOS, macOS
Image: Apple One of the areas where generative AI can help with work is in software development. Developers deal with thousands of lines of code, and AI can boost a developer’s productivity. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has plans to use AI to help software developers. Gurman reports that the...
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iOS 18: Everything we know about the next big iPhone update
Skip to content Image: Foundry Every year, Apple announces the new version of iOS at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. It then enters a beta testing phones (first for developers only, then for the public) before being released in September, around the time the new iPhones go on sale. We don’t expect the process...