After months of anticipation, Apple has finally unveiled its next major iPhone update - iOS 26. The design overhaul, announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), brings translucent, glass-like effects to app icons, the lock screen, and home screen. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, described this so-called'Liquid Glass Design' as'gorgeous'. However, it hasn't gone down well on social media, where users have dubbed the glass-like elements as ugly and difficult to use. 'Liquid Glass Design is the ugliest thing Apple has ever done!' one user vented.

SHOPPING – Contains affiliated content. Products featured in this Shopping Finder article are selected by our shopping writers. If you make a purchase using links on this page, Dailymail.co.uk will earn an affiliate commission. The day Apple fans have been waiting for is nearly here. After many months of rumours, the tech giant is finally due to unveil a slew of new products on Wednesday.

He is best known for being CEO of one of the world's largest companies. But before Tim Cook took the reins at Apple, he started his career in a very surprising place. Speaking on the Table Manners podcast, Mr Cook revealed that he started working when he was just 11 years old. He says: 'A lot of [his upbringing] was centred on work and the belief that hard work was essential for everybody, regardless of your age. 'And so I started working when I was probably 11 or 12 on the paper route.'

Axios reported on Friday that Apple CEO Tim Cook will donate 1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration, the latest tech company figure to do so. These donations--which aren't covered by campaign finance law and can be unlimited--signal a clear willingness to work with the Trump administration and a desire to curry favor with the once and future president. The tech sector is particularly eager to suck up. In December, Meta and Amazon donated 1 million to the inauguration committee, and OpenAI's Sam Altman said he planned to do the same. Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi have both donated 1 million apiece (even as the company's chief legal officer Tony West is vice president Kamala Harris' brother-in-law).

Apple fans have slammed CEO Tim Cook for congratulating Donald Trump on his victory after beating Kamal Harris in the 2024 US Election. Cook said on X that the tech giant looks forward to working with him to'help make sure the US continues to lead with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.' However, users flooded the post with comments criticizing the CEO for'interfering with the election since 2016,' citing claims that Siri only showed a picture of Harris' face when asked about the 2024 general election. Many of the comments urged Apple to start manufacturing its products in the US, which has been expressed by Trump along the campaign trail. 'We will reclaim our nation's destiny as the No. 1 manufacturing superpower in the world,' he said in August.

After months of silence on its AI ambitions, Apple entered the artificial intelligence race with a lavish product announcement on Monday. At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the multi-trillion dollar tech giant heralded a new era of technology, dubbed'Apple Intelligence'. Apple Intelligence is essentially a snazzy brand name for Apple's new-found focus on AI, triggered by the huge success of the ChatGPT chatbot 18 months ago. It means there will be an extensive presence of AI across Apple's devices and apps – whether you like it or not. While Apple claims the technology will usher in a'new chapter in Apple innovation', it seems that not everyone agrees, with Elon Musk dramatically warning that he will ban Apple devices from his firms following the news.

After months of anticipation, the wait is finally almost over for Apple fans, as the tech giant's annual tech event is about to commence. Apple says the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which kicks off today at Apple Park in California, will be an'extraordinary week of technology'. The tech giant is expected to announce a load of AI features at the'momentous' event, including a chatbot built into its iPhones. It's also tipped to shed light on the next major mobile operating system, called iOS 18, which will likely also get an AI revamp. Ahead of the event, MailOnline gives a rundown of everything you need to know about WWDC, including how to tune in and when the big products will be revealed.

Despite spending billions of dollars on the project in the past 10 years, Apple has scrapped efforts to build its own self-driving electric car. Social media users have been mercilessly mocking the tech giant, which is reportedly set to fire employees who worked on the ambitious scheme. Taking to X, one joked that Apple cancelled the car'after realizing it would require windows', in a nod to the software from rival tech firm Microsoft. Another user said that the'charging solution proved a bit inconvenient' with a shot of an upside-down car with a charger plugged into it. Yet another posted an image of the'original Apple car' – driven by Lowly Worm the fictional earthworm from the classic 1960s children's books.

Entity Linking (EL) is an essential and challenging task in natural language processing that seeks to link some text representing an entity within a document or sentence with its corresponding entry in a dictionary or knowledge base. Most existing approaches focus on creating elaborate contextual models that look for clues the words surrounding the entity-text to help solve the linking problem. Although these fine-tuned language models tend to work, they can be unwieldy, difficult to train, and do not transfer well to other domains. Fortunately, Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT provide a highly-advanced solution to the problems inherent in EL models, but simply naive prompts to LLMs do not work well. In the present work, we define ChatEL, which is a three-step framework to prompt LLMs to return accurate results. Overall the ChatEL framework improves the average F1 performance across 10 datasets by more than 2%. Finally, a thorough error analysis shows many instances with the ground truth labels were actually incorrect, and the labels predicted by ChatEL were actually correct. This indicates that the quantitative results presented in this paper may be a conservative estimate of the actual performance.

With the release of Apple's VisionPro today, it has already been a year of huge technological leaps for the tech giant. But CEO Tim Cook has now confirmed that 2024 could have an even bigger surprise in store after teasing a big announcement on artificial intelligence (AI). Although Apple's products already include some machine learning features, they are yet to produce an AI product to rival ChatGPT. But now the Apple boss has revealed that Apple will be sharing details of their'ongoing work' in AI'later this year'. Cook would not reveal exact details of what AI features could be coming but said: 'We have got some things that we're incredibly excited about.' Speaking on Apple's quarterly earnings report on Thursday, Tim Cook said: 'As we look ahead, we will continue to invest in these and other technologies that will shape the future.