Siri reveals Apple's WWDC 2016 will be held June 13 to June 17

Apple has yet to update its website, but we now know the dates of the next Worldwide Developers Conference. When you ask Siri “when is WWDC,” Siri already has an answer for you. Apple will hold its annual developer conference from June 13 to June 17. This is in line with Apple’s previous conferences. The company will very likely present a bunch of new stuff during its inaugural keynote on Monday June 13.

Apple usually books the Moscone Center for its conference. While WWDC doesn’t appear on the Moscone Center schedule, the conference center is still “available” around this time. In the past, Apple has sold tickets on a first come first served basis. But, more recently, the company has switched to a lottery system.

When the website is live, developers will be able to register for a chance to go to WWDC. You need to enter your credit card information and your card will be charged if you’re selected. Apple won’t ask you twice to confirm you want to go. This way, Apple is sure you’re serious about going to WWDC.

Apple’s WWDC keynote usually focuses on software more than hardware. In the last few years, the company has unveiled the new features in iOS and OS X — and maybe Apple will even rename OS X to ‘MacOS’.

But we haven’t heard about Macs in a while. So Apple could use this opportunity to launch some updated MacBook devices — and, let’s be crazy, why not an external retina display. But first, let’s wait for Apple’s official WWDC announcement and see how the conference is going to work.








Source: Techcrunch

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Siri will become you in iOS 10

Masquerading as iCloud Voicemail, the new gadget will allow iPhone owners to route their calls through Siri so that it answers calls and transcribes voicemails as a text for easy digestion at a later time.

Apple employees have been using the new voicemail for a number of weeks, according to a report by Business Insider, and there are plenty of nifty features that Apple is has included such as the ability to relay where you are, what you're doing and why you can't pick up the phone using Siri's dulcet tones.

The conversion from voice to text takes place at Apple's company servers where any messages are changed from raw voicemail to text, which brings discussion about data privacy to the fore.

Apple doesn't have plans to implement the new service into its upcoming iOS 9 release due to the fact that it presumably needs to undergo rigorous testing so that it actually works accurately and doesn't just feed back a bunch of gibberish.

That would point to a release inside iOS 10, which should be outed alongside the iPhone 7 in September 2016.

Source: business Insider 

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