Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities

Image: ByoWave On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the Proteus Controller, a $299 modular video game controller kit that lets Xbox gamers with disabilities customize their controllers.Created by peripheral company ByoWave as part of the Designed for Xbox program, the wireless controller consists of small cubes with interchangeable faceplates that include controller buttons, a directional pad, and analog sticks.The “snap and play” parts connect together so gamers can build more than 100

Image: Apple Apple will let you record and transcribe phone calls in iOS 18. The company announced the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday and says it will automatically tell call participants that they’re being recorded.
The image shared by Apple shows a new recording option on the Phone app, which displays a soundwave, along with how long you’ve been recording. It then transcribes your call in the Notes app, where you can generate a summary using the new Ap

Image: The Verge The WWDC keynote may be over, but we still have lots of questions about the state and future of Apple Intelligence. And in a somewhat unusual move, Apple is here to answer some of them: Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, two of the executives in charge of all of Apple’s AI efforts, are taking the stage in the Steve Jobs theater to talk about everything Apple announced on Monday.
Federighi, of course, is Apple’s software chief, overseeing nearly all the platforms a

Image: Ubisoft The reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows mostly focused on its story, characters, and setting. But a new trailer gives a better idea of how the game will actually play. The lengthy gameplay overview, which clocks in at around 12 minutes long, shows off the game’s sprawling rendition of Japan, while also detailing the different skills and approaches of its two playable leads. It’s also very bloody.
This is the game’s second gameplay trailer in as many days. Ub

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Adobe is overhauling the terms customers must agree to when using its apps in an effort to win back trust — and clarify that it won’t train AI on their work. The change, announced via a new blog post, comes after a week of backlash from users who feared that an update to Adobe’s terms of service would allow their work to be used for AI training.
The new terms of service are expected to roll out on June 18th, and aim to better clarify what

Image: Ubisoft We’re getting very close to the launch of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s GTA-style take on a galaxy far, far away. Which means it’s a good time for another trailer detailing the sorts of criminal escapades players can get into. The new overview focused primarily on the different Star Wars locations you’ll be exploring, and along with the various not-exactly-legal missions you’ll take on. Among various aspects featured are dealing with the Hutts, riding

Screenshot: The Verge Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote has come to a close — and the company had a whole lot to share. We got our first look at the AI features coming to Apple’s devices and some major updates across the company’s operating systems.
If you missed out on watching the keynote live, we’ve gathered all the biggest announcements that you can check out below.
Apple’s first AI system is coming to the iPhone, iPad, and MacScreenshot: App

Support for robot vacuums is coming to Apple Home with iOS18. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Apple has announced that Apple Home will finally support robot vacuums with iOS 18. This was one of just a few updates to Apple Home announced at WWDC 2024. The others were guest access for door locks and hands-free unlocking, plus a new electricity usage feature in the Home app, which is limited to Pacific Gas & Electric in California at launch.
Apple didn’t provide many detail

Support for robot vacuums is coming to Apple Home with iOS18. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Apple has announced that Apple Home will finally support robot vacuums with iOS 18. This was one of just a few updates to its smart home platform that Apple announced at WWDC 2024. The company also revealed that hands-free unlocking is coming to compatible smart door locks as well as the ability to share guest codes for access to your home (another thing we’ve been impatiently waiti

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple’s new “Apple Intelligence” generative AI features will let you make your own custom emoji and images, the company announced at WWDC 2024.
The custom emoji are called “Genmoji,” and they look like a lot of fun. In one example, during Monday’s keynote, Apple showed how the prompt “smiley relaxing wearing cucumbers” generates a yellow smiley face emoji with cucumbers over its eyes. There’s also a new &ldq

Apple announcing ChatGPT in Siri at WWDC 2024. | Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is partnering with OpenAI to put ChatGPT into Siri, the company announced at its WWDC 2024 keynote on Monday.
ChatGPT will be available for free, without an account, and user information won’t be logged. The chatbot will also be integrated into system wide writing tools.
The long-awaited partnership emerges as Apple strives to integrate AI features that rival those of other big tech companies. Apple had been

Apple’s new Passwords app. | Image: Apple At WWDC 2024, Apple revealed a new Passwords app that expands on its existing iCloud Keychain features and syncs your passwords across more devices. Now, with Passwords, Apple is releasing a standalone app to manage passwords and passkeys on more devices, including Windows computers, Apple’s Vision Pro headset, as well as Macs, iPhones, and iPads.Platforms that have so far gone unmentioned? Just as the earlier rumor indicated, Google Chrome a

Apple’s new Passwords app. | Image: Apple At WWDC 2024, Apple revealed a new Passwords app that expands on its existing iCloud Keychain features and syncs your passwords across more devices. Now, with Passwords, Apple is releasing a standalone app to manage passwords and passkeys on more devices, including Apple’s Vision Pro headset, as well as Macs, iPhones, and iPads. It also syncs with PCs via the iCloud for Windows app.
Platforms that have so far gone unmentioned? Just as the ear

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has announced several AI-powered features coming to its Siri virtual assistant, such as an updated design and improvements to how it speaks and understands spoken language commands. These features, announced during Apple’s WWDC event on June 10th, come courtesy of Apple Intelligence — the company’s new personal intelligence system which the company says will be able to control actions on users' behalf in apps.
For Siri, Apple says t

Image: The Verge Apple at WWDC 2024 announced “Apple Intelligence,” its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more.The company once refused to use the term “artificial intelligence” when talking about its machine learning features, now has AI enhancements across its platforms. The company has been behind companies like Google and Microsoft, which started racing ahead with their own generative AI features as soon as OpenAI broke that dam open in 2022

Apple’s tvOS, the software that runs on the company’s Apple TV streaming devices, is rarely a big focus at WWDC. But it’s still getting a few new features this fall.
Apple TV’s Enhance Dialogue feature, which arrived with iOS 17, will now use machine learning for “greater vocal clarity,” said Ron Huang, VP of sensing and connectivity at Apple, during the WWDC event today. Support for Enhance Dialogue, which separates the dialogue from the background noise so

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple officially announced macOS 15 Sequoia at WWDC 2024 on Monday, with Apple Intelligence, iPhone mirroring, Continuity updates, automatic window tiling — finally — and a cross-platform Passwords app. The developer beta is available today, with public betas in July. The full version releases in fall 2024.
Most significantly, MacOS Sequoia will include Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI features that work across iPhone, iPad, and iOS. Among the feat

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple officially announced macOS 15 Sequoia at WWDC 2024 on Monday, with iPhone mirroring, Continuity updates, automatic window tiling — FINALLY — and a cross-platform Passwords app. The developer beta is available today, with public betas this month.One of the first features coming to the OS is iPhone mirroring, which lets you control your phone from your Mac. You’ll get phone notifications on the Mac as well as audio passthrough. Finally, a

Image: Apple Apple offered a preview of iPadOS 18 during its WWDC 2024 keynote, providing a brief glimpse of the latest version of its tablet software. Like in previous years, the new update will arrive in the fall, with a developer beta available today and a public beta available next month.The software update finally adds a built-in calculator to Apple’s tablets. This means iPad users will no longer need to download third-party apps, which are often chock-full of ads and rarely optimized

Image: Apple Apple offered a preview of iPadOS 18 during its WWDC 2024 keynote, providing a brief glimpse of the latest version of its tablet software. Like in previous years, the new update will arrive in the fall, with a developer beta available today and a public beta available next month.The software update finally adds a built-in calculator to Apple’s tablets. This means iPad users will no longer need to download third-party apps, which are often chock-full of ads and rarely optimized

Image: Apple The iPad is finally getting a Calculator app as part of iPadOS 18. The long-requested app was just announced by Apple at WWDC 2024.
On its face, the app looks a lot like the calculator you might be familiar with from iOS. But it also supports Apple Pencil, meaning that you can write down math problems and the app will solve them thanks to a feature Apple calls Math Notes.The arrival of Calculator for iPad isn’t a total surprise, as rumors surfaced earlier this year that the ap

As it has done in years past, Apple outlined upcoming new software features coming to the company’s current lineup of AirPods earbuds and headphones today.
You can soon use your AirPods to control Siri in new ways, including shaking your head yes or no to respond without needing to use your voice.
Voice isolation is coming to the AirPods Pro. It removes the background noise around you to improve call quality. There’s also new personalized spatial audio that now supports games. One o

Image: Apple Apple’s iOS 18 introduced satellite capabilities to the iMessage app during WWDC.
With the new capability, those off-grid should be able to connect with loved ones even when they lack a traditional internet connection. The feature will be available on the iPhone 14 and newer phones updated to iOS 18.Image: AppleYou can soon schedule messages.
It’s one of many new iMessage features Apple introduced during its annual developer event.Soon, users will also be able to schedul

Rest days!!!Apple just announced watchOS 11, the latest version of its smartwatch platform, at WWDC 2024. Developers will be able to start tinkering with it starting today, while a public beta will arrive sometime next month. As in past years, a final public release is expected for sometime this fall alongside the new Apple Watches.As always, each version of watchOS comes with new health features. This year, we’re getting a training mode that takes personal data and metrics to see how the

Rest days!!!Apple just announced watchOS 11, the latest version of its smartwatch platform, at WWDC 2024. Developers will be able to start tinkering around with it starting today, while a public beta will arrive sometime next month. As in past years, a final public release is expected for sometime this fall alongside the new Apple Watches.As always, each version of watchOS comes with new health features. This year, we’re getting a training mode that takes personal data and metrics to see h