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Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software.
Ask almost any engineer what "Wi-Fi" stands for and you'll hear the same answer: "Wireless Fidelity." It is one of the most repeated facts in tech, it appears in textbooks and product manuals, and it is wrong. Wi-Fi does not stand for Wireless Fidelity. In fact, it does not stand for anything at all. A name invented by a branding agency In 1999, the industry group then known as the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance — today the Wi-Fi Alliance — had a problem. The wireless networking standard it was promoting carried the memorable name "IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence." That string is precise, but no consumer was ever going to ask a store clerk for an 802.11b router. The technology needed a brand. So the alliance hired Interbrand, the same firm behind names like Prozac and the Compaq brand, to invent something catchy. Interbrand returned with a shortlist of about ten candidates, and the group chose "Wi-Fi." Phil Belanger, a founding member of the alliance, has been blunt about it for years: the name has no expanded meaning. It was picked because it was short, easy to say, and rhymed with "Hi-Fi," a term consumers already associated with high-quality audio gear. So where did "Wireless Fidelity" come from? The myth has a real origin. Some board members were uncomfortable shipping a brand name that "meant nothing," so the alliance briefly bolted on the tagline "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity." It was a backronym — two words reverse-engineered to fit the syllables "Wi" and "Fi" after the fact. The phrase was clumsy, it never described the technology accurately, and once the alliance brought on more marketing-savvy members it was quietly dropped. The tagline disappeared; the misconception it planted did not. Why this matters if you build connected things This is a fun piece of trivia, but it points at something real for anyone doing IoT and embedded development . The protocols we treat as immovable technical bedrock are often shaped as much by branding, licensing,
You'll need an M1 or better to run the next release of macOS.
This promises to be a solid release for aging iPhones.
Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County.
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This year's WWDC keynote was all about AI. But with all the attention on Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, the company breezed by - or neglected to mention - a bunch of cool, smaller features across its new updates. I've rounded up a bunch of them right here. The new operating systems are available in […]
WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.
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Apple's focus on efficiency and performance improvements is good news for older iPhones.
Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.
Updates include a new souped-up Siri, lots of iOS enhancements, and some inkling on how an AI partnership with Google has come to power Apple’s products.
I hope you have a modern Apple Watch or iPad, because otherwise watchOS 27 and iPadOS 27 won't run on your device. Apple often drops support for older devices with its latest software updates, but this year it's culling even more device generations than ever before. Apple is dropping support for at least three generations […]
You'll need to be running Apple silicon to use the latest operating system.
"It is actually challenging how you measure [Mach] from space."
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Apple just announced watchOS 27, the next version of its Apple Watch operating system, introducing support for Siri AI, a redesigned "dynamic" app grid, and improvements to health and fitness tracking. The watchOS 27 update will be available "this fall," according to Apple, though support is notably limited - the new OS will only be […]
New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul.
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