Xbox Cloud Gaming now has mouse and keyboard support in 26 games

Image: The Verge Microsoft started to preview mouse and keyboard support for Xbox Cloud Gaming in March, and it’s now rolling out to everyone as a beta today. You’ll be able to start streaming and playing Xbox games with a mouse or keyboard in Edge or Chrome over at xbox.com/play.
In total, 26 games will be supported at the launch of this beta, including Fortnite, Sea of Thieves, and Halo Infinite. Microsoft is also planning to let PC owners use the Xbox app later this month to selec

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

Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that Canon is making a funky-looking new lens for its EOS R7 camera, tailor-made for creating spatial video content for the Vision Pro headset. This comes alongside the new visionOS 2 update, which brings more emphasis on spatial images to the Photos app.This isn’t Canon’s first time making a single-purpose dual-lens array like this for its EOS line. It currently has a VR system with an RF 5.2mm f/2.8 L Dual Fisheye lens that’s compatible with the

Image: Apple Apple is bringing Game Mode to iOS devices as part of iOS 18. The new feature was announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday.
When Game Mode is on, your device will minimize background activity to maximize frame rates and will have improved responsiveness with AirPods and game controllers, according to Apple software chief Craig Federighi.
Apple added a Game Mode to macOS last year.
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It’s about damn time. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.Unfortunately, we don’t know anything other than the fact that it’s coming in iOS 18.
Right now, when people on

It’s about damn time. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.Unfortunately, we don’t know anything other than the fact that it’s coming in iOS 18.
Right now, when people on

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Much more of the world will soon have the chance to buy Apple’s mixed-reality headset. Apple announced today that its $3,499 Vision Pro will be sold internationally with a rollout kicking off on June 28th.
The first countries outside the US to get the Vision Pro are China, Japan, and Singapore on June 28th, followed by Germany, France, Australia, the UK, and Canada on July 12th. The announcement comes after Bloomberg reported in May that Apple has been tra