The next version of Apple's software for the iPhone and iPad, iOS 10, will feature enhanced 3D touch features, expanded Siri and an improved lock screen plus overhauls to Photos, Music and Messages. Apple has also improved notifications, allowing apps to provide rich notifications that are activated via 3D touch gestures in the notification pane, as well as the widget pane and via the lock screen. Siri is now open to third-party developers, which means apps like WeChat can be accessed straight from the voice-control window. While the Apple QuickType keyboard now has part of Siri's machine learning to allow it to predict your responses based on what is happening on the rest of the phone. Apple Photos now has facial, scene and object recognition built in, which is performed on device, as well as the ability to view your photos on a map and to automatically group photos for topics, trips, people and other activities in what Apple calls "Memories".

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is taking place in San Francisco, where Tim Cook and other executives are expected to reveal changes to Apple operating systems, give Siri a bigger role, and make the App Store more compelling for developers. We'll be live-blogging here, as our reporters at the Bill Graham Auditorium, follow the coverage. Thanks the audience and Apple community and ends WWDC. App varies from teaching young people simple code to introducing more complicated coding features. "Swift Playground will revolutionize the way people learn to code," Cook said.

Apple's developer conference kicked off in San Francisco Monday. SAN FRANCISCO – Apple unloaded an avalanche of evolutionary news at its developers conference Monday, an effort to tout the power of its iOS ecosystems. From confirming speculation that Siri would be opening up to app creators to a new messaging app that can suggest emojis, Apple's top executives offered a smorgasbord of updates that were all about making it easier for consumers to interact with Apple's hardware. "You're a part of everything we do now," Apple CEO Tim Cook told the 5,000 developers gathered at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for the kickoff to WWDC 2016. "We think it's crucial that we provide the best tools so you can create the best apps."

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn just lit up the cloud wars. The giant maker of Windows software missed out on the consumer boom. Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft is reaching for riches in the "cloud," doubling down on software and services delivered over the Internet on a variety of platforms and devices. With the 26.2 billion acquisition of the Facebook of professional networks, Microsoft is placing a big bet that bringing together its "professional cloud" and LinkedIn's professional network will help the pair create valuable services for business customers and accelerate Microsoft's shift from traditional software to the cloud, where it's taking on fellow titans of technology Amazon.com and Google. As more companies realize the benefits of shifting software and data off their own computers, tech giants and a slew of start-ups are battling ever more aggressively for these clients.

In case Siri coming to macOS wasn't enough for you, Apple Pay is joining the virtual assistant on desktops and laptops. That means you'll now be able to use the service on the web, making it faster and simpler to check out on some of your favorite shopping sites. Meanwhile, to help with productivity, macOS Sierra will feature a picture-in-picture mode, similar to what we've seen on the iPad. Without a doubt, the biggest announcement is Siri expanding outside of iOS. Functionality-wise, Siri for macOS can control apps and do web searches -- and tell you jokes, of course, because we all know how important that is. For its part, macOS Sierra is set to release in the fall as a free upgrade.

Siri has been spreading its wings over the last year. Apple introduced the voice-activated helper to its watch and TV to make life more hands-free for the users. But the virtual assistant steered clear of the desktop until now. As reported earlier this year, Siri is coming to the Mac.

It's a smart move from Apple, which has seen its ostensible "lead" in the voice-assistant game lag behind Google's competing product. By letting developers leverage Siri's voice comprehension, the feature should start to regain some important ground. Siri, of course, is also gaining positional intelligence and will be able to scan your messaging conversations to predict your behavior. In one of the onstage examples, Siri would know that if you were talking to someone about getting dim sum later, then you'll need to find a dim sum place nearby. It's not the only previously reserved feature from iOS that's now open to developers, with Maps another option now included. Similar to Siri, app creators can add in services that can connect to your location information, such as OpenTable when you're looking for some food.

Don't call it OS X anymore, and if you do, Siri will probably correct you. Apple unveiled on Monday at its 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference that the Mac operating system is now called macOS, and the next version will feature the Siri vocal interface and digital assistant. Siri is the headline feature in what will be macOS Sierra. As had been rumored, a new Siri icon will be accessible in the Dock; clicking on it will launch a Siri window that iOS users will be familiar with. During the macOS Siri demo at WWDC, Apple VP Craig Federighi used Siri to find files and followed up the search to refine the results.

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Until now, Siri's been little more than a slightly sassy sidekick for iPhone users. It's gotten better over time, in the sense that it's more accurate in understanding what you're asking, but it's not a whole lot more useful than it was at launch. Today, though, Apple made a big move to make Siri work for more people, by opening it up to third-party developers and bringing Siri to the Mac. Long-term, this means you'll be able to connect Siri to the apps you actually use, instead of having to use Apple Maps and Apple Music and Apple Mail and all the other apps I stuck into a folder marked by the poop emoji. Not only that, you'll be able to use Siri on your PC, to make a lot of simple actions easier: adding things to your calendar, doing quick research and calculations, setting reminders, playing music, even searching your computer.