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Apple Towson Town Center employees received an endorsement from Maryland Governor Wes Moore in their fight against Apple over the company’s decision to close its first US unionized store. Here are the details.

A couple of months ago, Apple announced that its Towson Town Center would close its doors for good on June 20, alongside two other stores located in commercial centers in California and Connecticut.

The Apple Towson Town Center workers have been represented by the IAM Union since 2022, after becoming the first Apple retail store

We’re just days away from Apple’s iOS 27 unveiling on June 8 at WWDC. Here are five rumored new features in iOS 27 that I’m most excited about.

Clipboard manager Paste got even more useful today, with the release of Paste MCP: a tool that connects your clipboard history to several AI tools, from Claude and Codex, to Cursor and beyond. Here are the details.

A bit of context

In late 2024, Anthropic proposed the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI assistants and traditional platforms.

Soon after the announcement, and even more so after Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, the protocol was

iOS 27’s unveiling is almost here , and Siri’s major overhaul is set to make not only the iPhone feel far more powerful, but AirPods too.

Today, Microsoft Build brought the announcement of Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform for AI agents. With the reveal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an interesting quote on the company’s vision for an agent-first computing future.

Microsoft and Qualcomm are partnering on a new initiative called Project Solara to advance agent-first computing.

Per Qualcomm, Solara is “a new chip-to-cloud platform where silicon, software and cloud come together to power AI experiences that are more personal, more

Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and cloud models.

Perplexity Computer is the company’s agentic system for putting AI to work for you.

The upcoming task splitting feature will let Perplexity Computer switch between on-device AI models and more powerful server-based models for different jobs.

The idea is that one system will be able to handle sensitive data locally while also accessing front models with more power when needed.

Here’s Perplexity on why it

DuckDuckGo is riding a fresh wave of user interest after Google’s AI-heavy search overhaul demoed at Google I/O. Here’s the latest data on the search engine’s recent success, which is especially strong among iPhone users.

Last week we reported that DuckDuckGo installs on iPhone spiked after Google’s AI search announcements at Google I/O.

Now today, the latest updates from the search provider prove that wasn’t a fluke, as DuckDuckGo just experienced its highest single-day search traffic

Ahead of WWDC next week , Apple has just revealed the 12 apps and games being honored this year as winners of 2026 Apple Design Awards.

Apple selected 36 finalists for the 2026 Apple Design Awards, which you can find here . And out of those apps and games, today the company revealed the 12 winners—six apps and six games.

From Apple’s press release :

“This year’s Apple Design Award winners are a remarkable reflection of how developers are creating