Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android. The SDK enables Android apps to be built in Swift using officially supported tooling rather than community workarounds. In June, it was announced that Apple's Swift programming language would be officially extended to support Android app development through the establishment of a dedicated Android Working Group within the Swift open-source project. Android interoperability is handled by swift-java, which can automatically generate bindings between Java and Swift so developers can use Swift code alongside existing Android APIs and Java code. The Swift Package Index now marks packages with Android support and says over 25% of all packages already build on Android, giving developers a base of reusable code. The Swift SDK for Android is already available in nightly preview form bundled with the Swift for Windows installer or as a separate download for Linux and macOS users. A new Getting Started guide with end-to-end setup instructions and a set of example Android projects written in Swift to illustrate complete workflows is also available. The group is preparing a vision document to set future priorities and is tracking progress on a public project board.Tags: Android, Swift This article, "Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

For my forever Space Sis: 🎂

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If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Carla wearing a white t-shirt that says 'CARLA SAYS WEALTH TAX' in the same style as the iconic 'FRANKIE SAYS RELAX' tees.

Just trying on some of the new @greenparty.org.uk merch available at conference 👕😅💅

#CarlaSaysWealthTax #GPC25

In memoriam...

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

Which is why it should be illegal to make payments to cybercrime groups, either directly or indirectly

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’ Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

Channel 4 to mark Trump's state visit by dissecting more than 100 of his lies, in what the channel describes as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

iOS 26 Available Today With These 8 New Features Following three months of beta testing, iOS 26 will be released today, September 15. The update is compatible with the iPhone 11 series and newer, and it will be available to install via the Settings app, under General → Software Update. Below, we have highlighted eight new features included in iOS 26. Even more new features and changes are outlined in Apple's release notes for the update. Some of the features are only available on newer iPhone models. Liquid Glass iOS 26 introduces an all-new Liquid Glass design with translucent menus, buttons, and icons. Apple describes Liquid Glass as "a new translucent material that reflects and refracts its surroundings, bringing greater focus to content, and delivering a new level of vitality across controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and more." Lock Screen Enhancements On iOS 26, the Lock Screen's clock automatically adapts to fill the empty space, and you can view full-screen animated album art for supported Apple Music songs. New iMessage Features Here are some of the key new features and changes in the Messages app on iOS 26: * Backgrounds: You can now add a background to any conversation, and all participants will see it. You can choose from Apple's selection of backgrounds, or you can set any of your own photos as a background. You can turn off conversation backgrounds in the Settings app if desired. * Polls: You can now create polls in group chats, allowing people to vote on topics or questions, such as which restaurant to go to. Apple Intelligence can detect when a poll might come in handy and suggest one. * Apple Cash in group chats: You can now send and receive Apple Cash in group chats. * Typing indicators in group chats: You can now see who is typing in group chats. * "Add Contact" button in group chats: This button makes it easier to add people to the Contacts app in group chats. * "Select" option: When you tap and hold on a message bubble, a new "Select" option appears. Tapping on it allows you to select a portion of text in a message, whereas you could previously only copy an entire message. * Unknown sender screening: When turned on, this setting automatically moves messages from unknown senders to the Unknown Senders folder, and hides notifications for them until you accept them. Call Screening and Hold Assist iOS 26 adds a couple of useful features to the Phone app: Call Screening and Hold Assist. Call Screening is an opt-in setting that asks unknown callers for their name, and the reason why they are calling. And with Hold Assist, your iPhone can automatically wait on hold for you during a call, and notify you when the agent on the other line is ready. Adaptive Power Mode iOS 26 introduces an Adaptive Power Mode on the iPhone, alongside the existing Low Power Mode. Apple says Adaptive Power Mode can make "performance adjustments" when necessary to extend an iPhone's battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness, allowing some activities to "take longer," and automatically turning on Low Power Mode when the iPhone's remaining battery life reaches the 20% mark. Adaptive Power Mode is only available on the iPhone 15 Pro models and newer. The setting can be turned on in the Settings app, under Battery → Power Mode. AutoMix A new AutoMix feature in the Apple Music app can seamlessly transition from one song to the next, like a DJ would. AutoMix replaces the previous Crossfade feature. Preview App iOS 26 extends a version of the Apple's Preview app from the Mac to the iPhone, providing you with a built-in app to edit and mark up PDFs and images. CarPlay Upgrades When you are using CarPlay with an iPhone running iOS 26, the new Liquid Glass design extends to the CarPlay interface. Like on the iPhone, the new look includes more shimmery app icons and translucent user interface elements. Starting with iOS 26, you can respond to messages with standard Tapbacks like a heart, thumbs up, or exclamation marks directly through CarPlay. You can now view your pinned conversations in the Messages app on CarPlay. CarPlay has a new compact view for incoming phone calls, so that you can still see other information on the screen, such as turn-by-turn directions. CarPlay's Dashboard screen can now show Live Activities, letting you keep track of things like a flight's arrival time at a glance. The regular version of CarPlay now has a widgets screen, for things like calendar appointments and HomeKit accessory controls. iPhone users will be able to wirelessly stream videos to the CarPlay screen using AirPlay, according to Apple. For safety reasons, video playback will only be available when the vehicle is parked, to prevent distracted driving. The connected iPhone will be able to detect when the vehicle is in motion and end playback. Automakers need to add support for this feature, so it might be limited to newer vehicles and take some time to roll out. More Read our iOS 26 roundup linked below to learn more about the update.Related Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26Related Forum: iOS 26 This article, "iOS 26 Available Today With These 8 New Features" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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It should be simple: people who cheer on violence in the UK can't enrich themselves with British taxpayers’ money.

That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

Ed Davey and Marie Goldman smiling while working on wooden boxes with a man at the Millrace Foundation workshop in Chelmsford.

It was a real privilege to visit the Millrace Foundation in Chelmsford with local MP @mariecgoldman.bsky.social

Since the 1990s, this brilliant project has been helping people living with long-term mental health needs to learn new skills, use their hands, and be part of a community.

Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market Former energy tsar suggests the ‘radical step’ as one of the few options the government has for cutting bills

Moving gas plants - which set the price of electricity- out of the market and into a nationally controlled reserve, would take £5bn off the UK’s energy bills

“Renewable energy is cheaper than gas but we’re not reaping all of the benefits clean power brings”

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Feel sorry for Rayner. Hard to believe she was deliberately skirting the tax.

At least we’ve now set a high bar for government conduct again. Which, of course, the Tories/Remain will continue to limbo under.

For Mac Eyes Only 457 – Mac From Scratch — For Mac Eyes Only On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren tackle an intriguing thought experiment inspired by an article on 9to5Mac: If you had to start your entire Apple ecosystem from scratch beginning ...

Here’s the new podcast episode that I co-host on … enjoy.

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Government expands police use of live facial recognition vans The Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance.

Expanding police live facial recognition vans to new areas (including Sussex) without MPs ever debating new laws for using this technology is pure dystopia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

can't sleep, can't stop thinking about how it is literally someone's job right now to trawl through every single porn site to check if they're meeting uk age verification requirements

THIS is where I've been for the last two years: Writing a 600-page, full-color biography of Apple! 150 interviews, including current Apple brass. Pub date: March 2026, Simon & Schuster. Preorders are open!

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macOS Tahoe Review: Spotlight Shines, Liquid Glass Disappoints We're on the fourth developer beta and first public beta of macOS Tahoe, which means we're getting closer to the launch version that's set to come out in September. With macOS Tahoe now available to the public, we thought it would be a good time to share an initial review of the update. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Like iOS 26, macOS Tahoe adopts the Liquid Glass design. It's used for the Dock, widgets, Control Center, menu bars, navigation bars in apps, app icons, and a few other places, but its implementation is less widespread than it is in iOS and iPadOS. It's clear that Liquid Glass was not a Mac-first design, and the glass parts of the interface feel cobbled together with the previous design language. The floating element of Liquid Glass looks natural on the iPhone and the iPad, where glassy buttons hover over the app's content to provide a sense of depth, but macOS Tahoe doesn't have enough of the glass-like transparency to make that work in the same way on the Mac. There are not-so-transparent gray-shaded buttons and navigation bars that have a dated-looking shadowing behind them, and the rounded look doesn't help make things appear modern either. Liquid Glass looks better on darker backgrounds, but it very much feels like a work in progress. This is a beta, of course, so we could see further updates to Liquid Glass on the Mac before Tahoe launches. Apple has been updating the macOS Tahoe design from beta to beta. Up until beta 4, Safari had a design where non-active tabs were denoted as such with an underline, while the active tab had none. That's typically not how underlining works, so determining which tab was in use was confusing. Apple thankfully adopted a color-based design in beta 4, so it's now clear which tab is at the forefront. Though Liquid Glass doesn't feel fully developed in macOS Tahoe, there are other new features that make a positive change to customization and function. The Control Center and Menu Bar can be customized with the apps and features that you need most, and other less useful options can be tucked away or removed. The Control Center is more like the iOS Control Center, and you can create multiple pages with options organized in a way that works for you. Third-party app functions will be able to be added to the Menu Bar and Control Center too. macOS adopts the tinted icon option from iOS, so you can tint your icons all the same color, or choose the Liquid Glass-style clear option (though be warned, it's more gray than clear on macOS). Folder colors can be customized too, and you can add an emoji to a folder to make it stand out. One of the biggest changes in macOS Tahoe is to Spotlight, which is now a one-stop spot for everything that you might need to do on a Mac. You can use it to open apps, find anything on your Mac, see your clipboard history, and complete actions. Spotlight replaces Launchpad, so when you want to open an app, you'll now use Spotlight. Search is more comprehensive and you're more likely to find what you're looking for using the file searching feature, plus you can keep tabs on what you've copied and pasted with the new clipboard history option. It stores a log of what you've copied for 24 hours. Actions is an all-new Spotlight function. You can do all kinds of things without ever opening an app, like sending an email or message, starting a timer, creating a note, placing a call, creating a reminder or calendar event, and much more. Apple added quick access buttons that are easy to learn, so you can use Command 1, 2, 3, and 4 to get to the different Spotlight functions. For things you use most often, you can set up your own quick keys. The Phone app is now on the Mac, which could be useful depending on your daily habits. There was already an option to answer a call on the Mac or make a FaceTime audio or video call, but now you have access to the full suite of phone functions for placing calls from the Mac. You'll need a connected ‌iPhone‌ with Wi-Fi Calling, of course. The Phone app on Mac includes the new features like Hold Assist, Call Screening, and Live Translation that you'll also find on the ‌iPhone‌. There's a new Games app that basically includes what's in the Games section of the Mac App Store and Apple Arcade. There's a "Play Together" option for challenging friends to beat you at a specific goal in a single-player game, and there's a multiplayer section for finding games to play with friends. The Games app doesn't seem all that useful as of right now, but maybe it will get additional features to make it more appealing in the future. The Journal app is also now available for Mac, which will be a welcome change for those who want to write journal entries using a Mac's keyboard. Many of the most useful ‌iOS 26‌ features and changes are also available on the Mac, like personalized Messages backgrounds, Apple Intelligence support for organizing Reminders, new ChatGPT styles for Image Playground, and support for the updated Genmoji. Have you tried macOS Tahoe yet? Let us know what you think of the update in the comments. Read More About macOS Tahoe We have a macOS Tahoe roundup that walks through all of the different features in the update.Related Roundup: macOS Tahoe 26Related Forum: macOS Tahoe This article, "macOS Tahoe Review: Spotlight Shines, Liquid Glass Disappoints" first appeared on MacRumors.com

macOS Tahoe Review: Spotlight Shines, Liquid Glass Disappoints

Ok Keir Starmer, let’s see the RAF leading the way.

M4 iMac Discounts: $150+ Off Amazon has the iMac available at a discount, so if you're thinking about getting a new desktop machine for back to school, make sure you're not paying full price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Apple's base M4 iMac with 8-core CPU is available for as low as $1,149 from Amazon, down from $1,299. That price is only for the pink version, and you'll have to pay around $1,185 for the other colors. $150 OFF8-core 256GB/16GB M4 iMac for $1,149 The higher-tier M4 iMac with 10-core CPU, 16GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD is available for as low as $1,365, down from $1,499. Some colors are a little more, but discounts on all shades except for orange and yellow are over $100. $124 OFF10-core 256GB/16GB M4 iMac for $1,365 The M4 iMac with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD is also on sale, with Amazon dropping the price as low as $1,542, down from $1,700. The version with 24GB RAM and a 512GB SSD is $1,716, down from $1,900. $158 OFF10-core 512GB/16GB M4 iMac for $1,542 $184 OFF10-core 5126GB/24GB M4 iMac for $1,716 Looking for more discounts? Make sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we highlight the best Apple-related deals that are currently available. Related Roundup: Apple Deals This article, "M4 iMac Discounts: $150+ Off" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe

The PM should invite Mark Carney for an official visit and address to Parliament before Trump’s visit.

It would show Britain backs Canada against Trump’s damaging trade war. Now is the time to stand with the Commonwealth, not stand in Trump’s shadow like Nigel Farage.

Carla Denyer MP, with a rainbow-coloured umbrella in the background, wearing a sequinned top and smiling

A group of people stand underneath a pink, blue and white banner with text that says 'Bristol leading against transphobia'

A woman with white hair and wearing a floral dress holds a sign that says 'Lovely church ladies for trans rights'

A selfie of Carla Denyer with a group of Bristol Green Councillors and members at a Pride parade

🏳️‍🌈 Pride is a protest ✊ 🏳️‍⚧️

This year it's so obvious how much it's needed, as we face threats to roll back LGBTIQA+ rights in the UK and globally

It felt so important to be at ‪@bristolpride.bsky.social with my community, standing shoulder to shoulder with our trans siblings. #Pride2025

So if the MAGA murder bill passes what're Democrats going to do? Spend the next 20 years clawing back Medicaid coverage? Or maybe it's time to actually fight for universal, single-payer, government-funded taxpayer subsidized Medi-FUCKIN-care for all.

Apple Shares PowerPoint Presentation That Can Help Convince Your Parents to Buy You a Mac Are you a student who is struggling to convince your parents to buy you a Mac for college? Apple has come up with a humorous solution for you. Apple today shared The Parent Presentation, which explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. The customizable 45-slide presentation is available in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides formats. After downloading the template on this page, you can fill in your name and some other key details, and make other edits to your liking. The presentation mostly contains tongue-in-cheek comments, but it also outlines a few real benefits of Macs, such as the MacBook Air's portability. In an accompanying YouTube video shared by Apple, comedian Martin Herlihy shows a group of high school students how to effectively use The Parent Presentation. The seven-minute video is split into chapters, in case you are too busy studying. Tag: Apple Ads This article, "Apple Shares PowerPoint Presentation That Can Help Convince Your Parents to Buy You a Mac" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

Apple Shares PowerPoint Presentation That Can Help Convince Your Parents to Buy You a Mac