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Earlier this week, I found a weird, yellow, double-sided, padlike thing made of silicone under our kitchen sink.
I had no idea what it was or how it got there.
I fired up Apple Visual Intelligence, pointed it at the mystery object, and lo and behold, it’s a silicone scrub pad.
Increasingly, whenever I want to ID some mystery object or product, I ask Apple Intelligence. I find it’s great for identifying plants, landmarks and products. It does a bunch of other things besides, like adding events to your calendar by scanning a flyer or poster.
In fact, the hardest part of using Visual Intelligence is remembering how to trigger it (press and hold your iPhone’s Camera Control).
Visual Intelligence is pretty great, but for such a handy and transformative feature, it’s pretty well hidden away.
It’s great to read that it’s soon changing. Starting next week, Apple will be making Visual Intelligence and a bunch of other AI features much more visible in its upcoming operating systems.
We’ll get a sneak peek at it all Monday morning. Here’s why it’s all pretty exciting.
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Take it from a Brit, the country’s always been prudish.
Apple initially said smarter Siri would run only on Apple silicon, even in data centers. Turns out, it needs Nvidia chips after all.
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It’s pretty impressive that some of the machines people use every day, as seen in this roundup of hybrid modern/vintage Apple setups, are nearly 20 years old.
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