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Apple home pods are landing in December Apple unveiled a 7 inch tall smart speaker that uses Siri it comes in black and white and costs more than twice as much as the competition one Apple home pod will set you back three hundred and fifty dollars but Apple is saying that you're gonna get better sound out of this speaker than you would from the Amazon echo so you can turn it up without distortion and this has the same chip inside as an iPhone so that's a big brain for a speaker it uses those smarts to adjust sound to fit to your environment it knows if you put it against a wall and it will direct the sound accordingly with Siri you can ask it to play your music similar to your interests or ask questions about the song or artist and add a track to a playlist it still does all those other typical assistant things like getting news or set reminders and control other compatible smart home devices but if you're feeling creeped out by having six Internet connected microphones in your home Apple says all Siri commands are sent anonymously with end-to-end encryption but Apple has so much more coming this year beyond a speaker here's a quick breakdown of the biggest news announced at WWDC that's Apple's annual Developers Conference going on now the next version of iPhone and iPad software is going to support augmented reality so app developers can make programs that use the phone's camera to make it look like virtual objects are sitting on tables in the real world Iowa's Leben is coming in the fall and with it you'll be able to send money to your friends in the message app photos and videos are better encoded to take up less storage space Siri is going to sound less like a robot and can make more suggestions based on your habits the control center shortcut has a new layout to change settings so if you found 3d touch irritating before you'll have more reason to be irritated when you have to press deep to access these new options but maybe Apple can save your life but do not disturb mode while driving will temporarily block out notifications that only lit urgent messages through when iOS 11 comes out iPads are going to have a new keyboard on the screen where you can pull down on keys type numbers and symbols there's new file system to organize your stuff and fingers can do a little dance of swiping and selecting multiple things and dragging them between apps if you use the pencil to scribble notes it can now search through your handwriting and use the camera to scan your documents into the Notes app the next version of the Mac operating system is called high sierra and it has a few little performance perks Safari is going to block videos from auto plain on websites like maybe this very video you happen to be watching now Apple watch owners will notice new face designs and more Syria minders to scroll through on your wrist along with you ways to log workouts and listen to music plus you may find yourself at a gym in the fall with equipment that can talk to your Apple watch and sync data with NFC a force there are also new computers on the way the iPad pro now has a 10.5 inch screen the tablets were responsive it starts at about $650 and will ship next week macbook laptops got a refresh with new processors and better graphics the imax they also got a boost and Apple's most powerful Mac computer is now an iMac pro it starts at about five thousand dollars the 5k display and better cooling than a typical iMac because it has to handle some heavy duty processing power I'm Bridget Carey that's the highlights but for more details on everything from WWDC head to cnet.com