At its WWDC event today, Apple announced a new Flipboard-like reader app for iOS, simply called news. It uses machine learning algorithms to help present articles it think you might be interested in. The app also includes a new publishing format, including dynamic image mosaics and typography that moves as you scroll through articles. News is rolling out to the US, UK and Australia to start. It replaces Newsstand as iOS’ primary article aggregator. Developing…

The problem is not always whether you know the way to San Jose, Cupertino or Grand Central Station but how to get there if you are not driving. And if you use Apple Maps you don’t get much help. That’s about to change. New updates to Apple Maps now offer transit directions that give users in various large cities a way to plot a route via mass transit. The information will be available to users in San Francisco, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Mexico City, Toronto, London, Paris and Berlin, with other cities and regions to be added later. The service is also available…
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Apple has announced at WWDC that Apple Pay will begin to let you add your store cards. Partners featured during the presentation include Walkgreens, Dunkin’ Donuts, Wegmans and Coke.

In its WWDC keynote, Apple has just announced that Apple Pay, its contactless payments play, is finally coming to the UK next month. It’ll be supported by the following banks: The service was introduced in the US last summer, but could not arrive in Europe until the right deals with payment providers and credit card companies were in place. Owners of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus already have the hardware they need to take advantage of Apple Pay, which allows you to simply wave your handset over a terminal to buy something. Back in February, Visa Europe announced that it…
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Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is focused on the new version of its mobile operating system — iOS 9 for Apple’s smartphone and tablet OS. Only 12 percent of Android users on Lollipop, Craig Federighi says Apple’s new iOS will do better with new Siri features and Proactive. New search functions let you find content inside apps. Tap and it brings you to the exact page you’re looking for. Siri has become more accurate over the last year, said Craig Federighi — s40 percent faster at responding to what we’re saying. The new iOS will allow developers to tap into the search bar and…
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