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Engadget
2 days ago
- Engadget
iOS 26 screenshots could be an intriguing preview of Apple's delayed Siri rework
When it launched, Apple 's Visual Intelligence feature allowed you to point your compatible phone's camera at things around you and either perform a Google Image Search or ask questions via ChatGPT. At WWDC 2025, the company showed off updates to broaden the usefulness of Visual Intelligence, largely by embedding it into the screenshots system. To quote the company's press release, "Visual intelligence already helps users learn about objects and places around them using their iPhone camera, and it now enables users to do more, faster, with the content on their iPhone screen." This reminded me of the "onscreen awareness" that Apple described as one of Siri's capabilities when it announced Apple Intelligence last year. In that press release, the company said, "With onscreen awareness, Siri will be able to understand and take action with users' content in more apps over time." Though it's not quite the same, the updated screenshot-based Visual Intelligence more or less allows for your iPhone to serve up contextual actions from your onscreen content, just not via Siri. In a way, it makes sense. Most people are already accustomed to taking a screenshot when they want to share or save important information they saw on a website or Instagram post. Integrating Apple Intelligence actions here would theoretically put the tools where you expect them, rather than make users talk to Siri (or wait for the update to roll out). Basically, in iOS 26 (on devices that support Apple Intelligence), pressing the power and volume down buttons to take a screenshot will result in a new page being pulled up. Instead of the thumbnail of your saved image appearing in the bottom left, you'll see the picture take up almost all of the display, with options around it for editing, sharing or saving the file, as well as getting Apple Intelligence-based answers and actions at the bottom. In the bottom left and right corners sit options for asking ChatGPT and doing a Google Image Search respectively. Depending on what's in your screenshot, Apple Intelligence can suggest various actions below your image. This can be asking where to buy a similar-looking item, adding an event to your calendar or identifying types of plants, animals or food, for instance. If there's a lot going on in your screenshot, you can draw on an item to highlight it (similar to how you select an object to erase in Photos) and get information specific to that part of the image. Third-party apps or services that have enabled App Intents, like Google, Etsy and Pinterest, can also appear here so you can carry out actions within this space too. For example, if you've found a bookend you like, taken a screenshot and identified it, you can shop for it on Etsy or pin it on Pinterest. One aspect of this update to Visual Intelligence that gives me pause is that, for people like me who screenshot mindlessly and don't want to do anything other than get receipts, this might add a frustrating step between capturing a screenshot and saving it to Photos. It sounds like you may be able to turn off this interface and stick to the existing screenshot system, though. The examples that Apple gave for Siri's ability to understand what's on your screen felt somewhat similar. In its press release from last year, Apple said "For example, if a friend texts a user their new address in Messages, the receiver can say, 'Add this address to his contact card.'" Like Visual Intelligence in screenshots, this involves scanning the onscreen content for pertinent information and helping you put it in a place (like Contacts or Calendar) where it's most useful. However, the promise of Siri's new era was more about interacting with all parts of your phone, across first- and third-party apps alike. So you could ask the assistant to open an article you added to your Reading List in Safari or send photos from a specified event to a contact. It's clear Apple has yet to deliver these advancements to Siri, and like Craig Federighi said at the WWDC 2025 keynote, those might only be discussed later this year. Still, as we await that status update, the changes coming to screenshots might be a preview of things to come. If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.
South China Morning Post
01-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Ant Group showcases its top AI researchers in bid to woo graduates in tight talent market
Fintech giant Ant Group has publicly introduced its renowned team of AI researchers for the first time, presenting them as mentors for new talent it plans to recruit for its 'exploration journey' towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Advertisement Ant's 'Plan A' talent recruitment programme disclosed the names of world-class mentors who would work with applicants from top universities on AI projects, including AGI, according to a recruitment notice posted by the company on Thursday. Ant is affiliated with Alibaba Group Holding, owner of the South China Morning Post. The programme features 12 mentors, including Wu Yi, a former researcher at San Francisco-based OpenAI, who has a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and Le Zhenzhong, formerly a scientist at Google's artificial intelligence research institute, who holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University. People walk past the Ant Group logo at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, September 2, 2023. Photo: Reuters Ant's recruitment of top AI talent comes as other Chinese Big Tech firms have embarked on hiring sprees for AI scientists and researchers, following the success of Chinese start-up DeepSeek, which made its breakthrough in AI model development with a team of more than 100 young scientists. Ant's elite AI team also includes He Zhengyu, a PhD graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he built the fastest Max-flow algorithm on a graphics processing unit (GPU) at that time, and Cai Wei, a Stanford University graduate and former senior algorithm engineer at Google, who contributed to products such as Google Image Search and Cloud Vision API, according to their published profiles. Shen Chunhua was also highlighted on the list. He is a leading AI researcher with 87,000 Google Scholar citations and a H-index score of 137, an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of publications. Shen's statistical machine-learning research claimed to produce significant advances in areas like target detection and instance segmentation. Advertisement Others include Yang Ming, who holds a doctorate in electronic engineering and computer science from Northwestern University, and who was a founding member of Facebook Al Research, and Zheng Da, who has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in computer science and currently heads the graph computing laboratory of Ant Technology Research Institute.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Yahoo
No, a Salina police officer is not missing
SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) — A post on social media is claiming a Salina Police officer is missing. The Salina Police Department confirms to KSN that the post is fake. The post claims that a female police officer identified as 27-year-old Carolyn Lynch is missing, and her daughter was found alone in her abandoned car. A quick internet search shows that this is a scam post circulating across the country. The officer featured in the post is actually a police officer with the Lodi, California, Police Department. Similar posts with different names, weights, and photos have been circulating for several years. Black Hills Energy seeks $17.2M rate increase in Kansas The goal of the scam is to accumulate a large number of views, likes, and shares before the original poster changes it to a link that leads to a scam or other malicious content, which may attempt to gather personal or financial information or install malware on a computer. Always be cautious when sharing or engaging with posts, unless you are sure they are genuine. A quick internet search can often save you from participating in or having your information compromised. You can use tools like Google Lens, Google Image Search, or TinEye to verify the source of an image online. For more Kansas news, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news by downloading our mobile app and signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track 3 Weather app by clicking here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Telegraph
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Why Donatella has stepped down from Versace
Donatella Versace who, after almost 30 years as creative director and figurehead of the label her brother founded in 1978, has announced she is stepping down to be succeeded by Dario Vitale. The news was not unexpected. Untrained and for a long time, unserious, she was never meant to become one of the most famous designers in the world. In 1997, her beloved big brother and partner in all things rebellious, was murdered outside his Miami mansion. Donatella Versace, always the indulged little sister (and in many ways Gianni's female alter ego) was forced into a position of responsibility that for several decades sat heavily with her. The euphemism is party girl. She was grieving her brother, a carefree existence as well as a creative partnership, blaming herself for not being with him when he was gunned down. The two were extremely close. She was Gianni's muse, always encouraging him to go shorter, sexier, va-va-voomier – an Italian play girl living her best life. And suddenly she had to deal with a crumbling company and marriage (to the former model Paul Beck) and their two traumatised children whose worlds were upended by their beloved uncle's death. What she had in her favour was grit, kindness and, even in the troughs of addiction, an infectious sense of humour. Cruelly poked and prodded by the long lens of the paparazzi who delighted in taking unflattering photos of her, she once told me that her best beauty sleep was 'going to sleep in the freezer'. An icon of the gay world, she was thoroughly in on the joke, poking fun at herself for wearing high heels even in the gym and her love of excess, which was baked into the Versace brand. Less was emphatically not more, chez Versace. It was a bore. But despite her genius for great quotes and her unerring instinct for what makes a good picture (clue: lots of parties and celebrity friends), the brand never delivered on its notoriety. While she initially brought a more wearable, less theatrical sensibility to the house, it never set a fashion agenda (like it or not) as it had under Gianni. Her nose for a story could nevertheless produce major fashion magic. The plunging jungle-print dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys in 2000 – so famous that Google created Google Image Search to cope with the demand – was designed under Donatella's watch. 'The amazing thing about that dress is that it was all quite unpremeditated compared with how planned things are now,' Donatella told me. 'She just liked it and wore it. I don't think she thought too much about the consequences.' But despite the Lopez dress, the Spring 2018 show that reunited five of the original supermodels on the catwalk, and endless Grammy and Oscar moments, Versace remained in the second division, money wise. Maybe that's why in 2019, she sold the label to Capri Holdings (formerly Michael Kors Holdings) for a handy $2.1 billion. 'I had so many approaches over the years and I always said no,' she told me at the time. 'Why would I want to follow rules set down by Wall Street when I could do whatever I wanted if we kept the company?' So why Capri Holdings? 'Because John Idol, [then CEO of Capri Holdings] is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met. He doesn't want to change a thing about this company, except help it to grow much bigger and make our website the best, and most efficient. The only thing he's said so far is that we need to focus more on accessories. But we already knew that.' In 2023, she staged a well received show in LA that featured a starry front row (many of whom were personal friends) but just as importantly, showcased how good this house could be when it put its mind to it. The tailoring was spectacularly good: the curvaceous red carpet dresses as audacious as ever. A best selling range of bags however, failed to materialise. Makeup – such an obvious win for Donatella – was never launched. Financially the needle refused to move significantly, unlike Prada, the behemoth run by her unlikely friend Miuccia Prada, which recently posted growth of 104 per cent year on year. Their friendship always intrigued observers. Prada the intellectual, Milanese-born caviar Marxist (in her youth) who never wore makeup and loved geek chic; Versace, the peroxided vamp. Mergers and acquisitions perhaps? There is much well founded speculation that Capri Holdings is keen to offload Versace, and that the Prada Group (which also owns Miu Miu and Church's) is interested in acquiring this undercapitalised fashion institution. If it does come to pass, the possibilities are intriguing. Their respective aesthetics couldn't be more different. But Prada, which has barely wavered at the preeminent creative force in Italian fashion, is seeking to expand after posting strong organic sales growth in the last nine months of 2024 despite a slowdown in demand, while Versace operates at a loss. A merger might signal the first move in Italy's response to the two French conglomerates LVMH and Kering) that dominate the luxury business. As for what Donatella Versace will do next – whatever she has energy for. A book, a movie of her life, more work for women's and Aids charities. The public is still fascinated by her. If anything, the older she gets, the more iconic she becomes. As she herself notes laconically, 'If people like me now it's probably just because I've been around such a long time.' Six major Donatella Versace moments The dress that changed the internet When Jennifer Lopez wore the plunge jungle-print chiffon dress to the Grammy Awards, Google was prompted to create Google Images to handle the search traffic. In that same year, Lisa Armstrong chose the dress to represent the Dress of the Year to join the Fashion Museum of Bath's Dress of the Year collection. The beginning of 'Brangelina' In 2005, when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's romance was all that the celebrity magazines could talk about, Donatella dressed Angelina Jolie for the premiere of Mr and Mrs Smith in figure-sculpting black leather. Reuniting the supermodels Versace's Spring 2018 collection saw Donatella reunite five of the major supers – Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni, and Helena Christensen – wearing draped golden mesh goddess dresses, to the sounds of George Michael's hit, Freedom. J Lo 2.0 Donatella staged another coup with her Spring 2020 show when a glowing J Lo wowed the crowds in Milan, closing the catwalk show with a victory lap that demonstrated that she could still wear the barely-there Jungle dress at 50-plus years old. Friend to the stars The scenic Fall 2023 show staged in Los Angeles on the roof of the Pacific Design Centre was Donatella-era Versace at its best. Elton John and Cher sat front row. Her final bow
