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• Apple introduces "Liquid Glass", its new software design for all its platforms

• NYT Op-Docs premieres a documentary about images and AI

• AllTop, a simple thematic news aggregator

Apple introduces "Liquid Glass", its new software design for all its platforms 

Apple presented this past Monday at its annual developers conference WWDC 2025 a series of new features among which stands out the new software design called "Liquid Glass", which will be applied to all platforms and all operating systems of Apple's different devices: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS

According to Apple, this new design "makes the experience in apps and throughout the system even more expressive and magical while feeling instantly familiar. It's created with a new software material called Liquid Glass. This translucent material reflects and refracts the elements surrounding it and transforms dynamically to give more prominence to content and bring even greater dynamism to controls, navigation, app icons, widgets and more".

This video presents "Liquid Glass":

On the other hand, Apple has announced that, from now on, all Apple operating systems will adopt year-based numbering. Thus, for example, the iPhone's will be iOS 26.

Apple has also announced improvements to Apple Intelligence (AI), with new artificial intelligence functionalities such as real-time translation (Live Translation) or various intelligent on-screen actions, among others. Additionally, developers will have access to Apple's language model to create new experiences.

On Apple's website, all the presented new features are described in detail:

• Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design

  A universal design across platforms brings more focus to content and a new level of vitality while maintaining the familiarity of Apple’s software

• Apple Intelligence gets even more powerful with new capabilities across Apple devices

  Developers can now access the Apple Intelligence on-device foundation model to power private, intelligent experiences within their apps

• Apple elevates the iPhone experience with iOS 26

  The release delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, new ways to stay connected in the Phone and Messages apps, and exciting updates to CarPlay, Apple Music, Maps, and Wallet 

NYT Op-Docs premieres a documentary about images and AI

“Death of a Fantastic Machine” is the title of the 16-minute documentary short film made by Swedish directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck that The New York Times newspaper has just premiered in its Op-Docs section, and Swedish public television SVT in a special broadcast held in the Swedish parliament.

"The film arrives as artificial intelligence fundamentally transforms visual media at a time when humans spend an average of seven hours daily consuming screen-based content. Yet despite this dependence on visual information, educational systems worldwide provide very little training in image literacy" The New York Times Company explained when presenting the documentary.

Commissioned by New York Times Opinion, the film expands on themes from the Sundance Special Jury Award-winning feature “And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine”— which has reached over 25,000 students across France and Sweden and received France’s official “Film of Public Utility” designation. The team’s new work explores authenticity in images in the A.I. era and examines how algorithms decide what we consume and how images are used to radicalize and polarize audiences.

NYT Op-Docs previously commissioned two other works from Danielson and Van Aertryck: "Ten Meter Tower" in 2017 and "Jobs for All!" in 2021.

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• ‘Death of a Fantastic Machine’ premieres on New York Times Op-Docs

  Sundance award-winning directors present urgent call for image literacy as A.I. transforms visual media.

AllTop, a simple thematic news aggregator

AllTop is a news aggregator and other content that offers headlines on a wide variety of topics from different specially selected sources. The headlines link to the original articles.

Its objective is to facilitate the consultation of information on a specific topic by providing the most recent headlines from the different media or websites chosen.

The website allows registered users to create their own topic tracking pages through the aggregation of RSS feeds from sites selected by the user.

This site was originally created by Guy Kawasaki, Will Mayall and Kathryn Henkens, although they are no longer part of the project.

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• AllTop  

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