Apple WWDC 2016 live: New software iPhone, iPad, Macs, Apple Watch and Apple TV to be unveiled – as it happened
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple is holding one of its biggest events of the year, demonstrating all of the software that will soon come to people's devices.
The event will include refreshes of every major piece of software that Apple has, including the operating systems that run its iPhones, Macs, iPads, Apple Watches and Apple TVs.
The company could also unveil some surprise hardware announcements, as well as laying out its plans for things like artificial intelligence more broadly.
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Here's some AI stuff: the phone will be able to tell better what you're talking about, and so provide better suggestions.
It knows, for instance, that you're being asked for your location – so you can just click one button and send that.
But the big news is "advanced facial recognition". It's using special artificial intelligence techniques to pick out who's in a photo and store them that way. It'll also be able to detect things like objects and scenes – it'll be able to see that there's a horse in a picture, for instance.
All of this is done on the device – it's never sent to Apple, unlike it is with Google's similar tool.
All of it works across the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. (The latter two will be able to receive them al but not necessarily send them.)
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