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these are the top stories the week Apple's semi boring announcements Microsoft not boring announcements and everything else you need to know Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference and introduced iOS 10 the biggest news is that Siri will be opened up to developers only certain apps will be able to use Siri Apple music got a huge redesign and it looks like an improvement compared to the mess that preceded it then there's apple's new smart home app called home it lets you control all of your home kit enabled devices in one place the apple watch will soon get watch OS three apps will load much faster so no more waiting watch it West seems to borrow from iOS as well a slide gesture from the bottom of the watch brings up a new control center the Apple TV will get a pretty cool feature called single sign-on apps that let you watch cable networks usually need you to sign in with each app with single sign-on you can put your information once in TV OS and it will handle the rest the rumors were true OS 10 was rebranded Mac OS which is one letter away from where tacos everybody just one letter anyway the newest version is called Matt OS Sierra which gets serious support also mac OS Sierra can use the Apple watch to unlock a mac and use an iPhone to use Apple pay on the web all those updates are coming in the fall over at e3 microsoft announced two new xboxes first up is the xbox one s it's forty percent smaller than the original Xbox one it's capable of 4k video playback and supports HDR that means some pretty video the xbox one s has an integrated power supply so no more giant power brick in your home theater a two terabyte version will ship in August for three hundred and ninety nine dollars a two hundred ninety nine dollar model with 500 gigabytes of space will ship later this year the second xbox announced is known as Project Scorpio which will arrive late in 2017 microsoft says it will have the most powerful GPU ever put in a game console it'll support 4k gaming and virtual reality microsoft also announced the Xbox play anywhere initiative you buy a game labeled Xbox play anywhere and you'll get the xbox and windows 10 version of the game for no extra cost on top of that gameplay syncs up you can start on the Xbox and continue on a Windows machine microsoft was really busy before it announced any of that xbox stuff it announced its buying the social network linkedin it's an all-cash deal where Microsoft will pay a hundred and ninety six dollars per share linkedin CEO will remain but he now reports the microsoft CEO satya nadella linkedin will remain a separate entity so why did Microsoft by linked it Microsoft has a few ideas how about if Cortana could give you information about a business meeting using LinkedIn data microsoft also sees linkedin working well with office 365 and it's advertising business let's go rapid fire shall we there's more to cover a US Court says the FTC's categorization of broadband as utility was totally legal that means net neutrality is safe in the US for now Beijing's intellectual property office has ordered Apple and others to stop selling the iphone 6 and 6 plus in the city the order is due to another company owning an exterior design patent Apple has appealed and Sony announced its PlayStation VR headset will launch in the best month of all October and will cost three hundred and ninety-nine dollars sony says the headset will support 50 games by the end of 2016 now you're all caught up in sec to get your daily dose or tech news check out cnet com / update for a weekly dose hit up cnet com / radar I'm Maya's actor signing off