It s there to support this new suite of ai products that the company is calling apple intelligence, which will allow users to use text, to create images, even emojis. We are also set to see a big upgrade to siri, the boy upgrade to siri, the voice assistant that apple first acquired back in 2010. The thing is though, this suite of products, apple intelligence, will not be available at least not for now, in the eu. Apple experience is a bit of a dustup with regulators there over the implications of the digital markets act. The products will however be available in the uk. Nabila popal from idc explained. There was a lot of negative sentiment at the beginning of the year as to why apple hadn t dived into it when any other company had. A lot of criticism from the market and about how if apple is behind, how the models not as advanced as the others, but this is a really huge step forward because consumers are still uncertain about what ai is and what it can do for them and the way apple ha
The israeli military said its aircraft attacked an operations centre belonging to hamas militants. Eyewitnesses told the bbc that large explosions rocked the mawasi area shortly after midnight and flames could be seen rising into the sky. We are keeping track of this development and will keep you up to date as and when we get more details. Now to in afghanistan, where life for the country s 21 million women hasjust become even tougher. Three years after the taliban s return to power, a new law has been passed saying that women must cover their face and body completely if they leave the house and their voices cannot be heard in public. Despite the risk to themselves, some women have spoken out and have been telling the bbc s yogita limaye what life is like for them now. We have hidden their identities and used actors voices to protect them. It s increasingly difficult for foreign journalists to report from afghanistan. This is yogita s report compiled along with camera journalist, sanj
Software called apple intelligence is integrated into a host of applications across the iphone. This photo editor allows you to remove people from the background. And this tool helps to rewrite your emails. There is also an upgrade to the voice assistant which can now take written commands and is said to work better with a natural spoken language. For now, apple intelligence features will not be available in the eu, as executives find themselves in the middle of a dustup with regulators over the digital markets act, but it will be available in the uk. That is, when they are released. The test version will start with a rollout in the us next month, with more coming by the end of the year. When it comes available, analysts say executives are keen to use apple intelligence integration to sell more iphones, which have hit a slump in recent years. Some analysts are not so sure that will happen. 15 years. Some analysts are not so sure that will happen. sure that will happen. Is apple intell
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing proiranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the nu
21 million women hasjust become even tougher. Three years after the talibans return to power, a new law has been passed saying that women must cover their Face And Body completely if they leave the house and their voices cannot be heard in public. Despite the risk to themselves, some women have spoken out and have been telling the bbc s Yogita Limaye what life is like for them now. We have hidden their identities and used actors voices to protect them. Its increasingly difficult for foreign journalists to report from afghanistan. This is yogitas report compiled along with camera journalist, sanjay ganguly, and producer, imogen anderson. Every moment you feel like youre in a prison. Even breathing becomes difficult. Were like dead bodies moving around. We cant talk. We cant do anything. This is a country where women are increasingly being pushed out of view. Their freedoms crushed bit by bit, by a relentless series of diktats. The latest a published law. This section says that if a woma