Vermonters can get hourly help with new app | Seven days

Vermonters can get hourly help with new app | Seven days

Rustam Sengupta Credit: Daria Bishop During the pandemic, Rustam Sengupta was living in Canada, watching from afar as his mother in Singapore struggled to support his father, who suffered from dementia. In her family’s personal predicament, Sengupta saw a universal problem: burned-out families trying to connect their loved ones to quality care. What ifSengupta thought, …

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Apple supports app development with new intelligent frameworks and advanced tools

Apple supports app development with new intelligent frameworks and advanced tools

June 8, 2026 Press release Apple accelerates application development with new intelligent architectures and advanced tools New APIs for integrating AI models and extended agent coding in Xcode 27 give developers powerful new ways to build and optimize their apps. Cupertino, California Apple today introduced new Intelligence capabilities, expanded productivity features in Xcode, and platform …

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Pay anyone to do anything: ‘Black Mirror’ task app is now live

Pay anyone to do anything: 'Black Mirror' task app is now live

What if you pay someone to do anything through an online platform? Like anything — from asking them to kill themselves to getting weird tattoos or doing reckless public stunts. The script looks like the beginning of another ‘Black Mirror’ episode. But this is the reality now. Pump.fun, the site best known for letting anyone …

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International visitors embrace the familiar QR payment app at Vietnam’s Digital Finance Day 2026.

International visitors embrace the familiar QR payment app at Vietnam's Digital Finance Day 2026.

Visitors learn about cross-border digital financial services in Vietnam at Digital Finance Day 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City on June 7, 2026. Image: Van Trung / Duoi Tre Tourist Kim Hong Myeong from South Korea tries the services at NAPAS’s Goi Thi booth during an event on …

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Google’s Sharon Dean App for the Deaf catches the eye

Google's Sharon Dean App for the Deaf catches the eye

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Meta’s smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone revealed that it already had three AI models capable of facial recognition, biometric fingerprinting and ‘authorized person’ notification.

Meta's smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone disclosed that it already contained three AI models capable of detecting a face, generating a biometric fingerprint, and firing a notification that read 'Person Recognized'

On 4 June 2026, a security analyst named Bucciodi published a technical analysis of Stella, Meta’s companion app for Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. Examining Android build version 273.0.0.21, the researcher found what they described as a complete, passive face recognition pipeline: three on-device AI models, a biometric database scheme, a dimensioned vector similarity index …

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How Father Solves Son’s Kannada Homework is a free keyboard app for 21 Indian languages

How Father Solves Son's Kannada Homework is a free keyboard app for 21 Indian languages

Krishna Permi recalls how it all started. “I wanted to help my child with his Kannada homework,” says a 35-year-old Bengaluru-based independent developer.It was this simple task at home that led Permi to create Akshar, a free keyboard app that supports 21 Indian languages. Permi says she helped her son practice Kannada at home. He …

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4 Google Health App Personalizations I Use to Make the App Really Personal

Fitbit Air and Google Health app settings on the lavender band.

The long-awaited Google Health rebrand is here, and not everyone likes it. In fact, sentiment toward the new Google Health app is so negative that Google is releasing a support document that highlights the bugs it’s already squashed and promises to “continue to listen to feedback, add new capabilities, and fix existing issues while being …

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