<p>At WWDC 2025, Apple said it is adding a lyrics translation feature to its Apple Music service so you can easily understand the meaning of a song in another language. Apple is also providing a pronunciation feature. </p>

<p>Apple is introducing Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, for Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls. </p>

<p>Apple announced at WWDC on Monday that it&#8217;s bringing polls to iMessage. The feature has been highly requested by users, and is one that has been long adopted by services like WhatsApp and Telegram.</p>

<p>This new naming system aims to make things clearer and more consistent across all platforms. </p>

<p>Apple announced a refreshed user interface called Liquid Glass, which features a transparent visual interface that gives everything a &#8220;glassy&#8221; look.</p>

<p>Apple is expected to unveil changes to its operating systems iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS at its Worldwide Developers Conference.</p>

<p>ChatGPT&#8217;s natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.</p>

<p>PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app.</p>

<p>Apple has an opportunity to deliver a WWDC that would encourage developers to invest more of their time in the ecosystem.</p>

<p>The Trump-Musk feud has been great for X, which jumped up the App Store charts.</p>

<p>X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner. </p>

<p>A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.</p>

<p>Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it&#8217;s working on.</p>

<p>Bonfire&#8217;s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.</p>

<p>X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives.</p>

<p>Google says the update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model is better at certain programming tasks and builds on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro the company announced around a month ago. </p>

<p>While you could already preview Snapchat messages on your Apple Watch by enabling them on your iPhone, there wasn&#8217;t a way to respond to them until now.</p>

<p>The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.</p>

<p>Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.</p>

<p>Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform&#8217;s content to train large language models.</p>