Ahead of WWDC 2025, Apple announced this year's Apple Design Awards winners, recognizing apps and games that excel in design and user experience. Twelve winners—one app and one game in each of six categories—were selected from 36 finalists developed around the world. Susan Prescott, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, said, "We recognize the creativity and innovation that developers have shown by pushing technological boundaries […]
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is comprehensively improving its Bus Information Terminal (BIT) service to enhance the convenience of public transportation users. The city is continuously improving the BIT to reduce the time spent waiting for buses at bus stops and make information easily accessible to everyone. As of 2025, a total of 5,816 BITs have been installed throughout Seoul, of which approximately 4,048 are directly operated by the city. BITs display real-time bus arrival information and are designed to be accessible to the elderly and those with disabilities.
Norwegian web browser company Opera has unveiled its new AI browser, Opera Neon. Beyond simply serving as a search assistant, this browser aims for "agent-based browsing," automatically performing tasks at the user's request. Its key feature is that even when the user turns off the computer, the AI continues projects. At the heart of Opera Neon is the "AI agent." The browser gathers information from the web, compiles reports, builds websites, and even runs games and code […]
Figma has acquired Modyfi, a web-based motion design tool. This acquisition will accelerate Figma's expansion into the motion graphics field and further its evolution into an all-in-one design platform. Modyfi is a cloud-based tool that empowers designers across a wide range of disciplines to create dynamic content. Featuring powerful graphic effects and flexible collaboration features, it has been built on a "Made to Move" philosophy since its founding, embracing the principle of "adding movement to design." […]
On May 23rd, Antropic released its next-generation large-scale language models, "Claude Opus 4" and "Claude Sonnet 4." These new models are garnering attention from developers and enterprise customers for their optimized design for complex coding tasks, long-term inference, and AI agent utilization. "Claude Opus 4," rated by Antropic as "the best ever," surpassed competing models in coding performance, achieving 72.51 TP3T on the SWE-bench benchmark and 43.21 TP3T on Terminal-bench. […]
The American non-profit organization TED has launched a new short-form video content feature called "TED Shorts." TED announced in an official announcement on the 21st (local time) that the feature will be available within the TED app. Users can access a vertically swiping video feed by pressing a button in the center of the navigation bar. The feed features highlights from TED talks and original content in short clips, and users can like, comment, and share […]
Apple has officially sent out invitations to the keynote speech for the 36th WWDC 2025, which will be held from June 9 to 13. The keynote will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, USA at 10 a.m. (local time) on the first day, the 9th, and an online event for developers around the world will also be held. The reason this invitation is drawing attention is because it overlaps with Google I/O 2025, which was held on the same day. IT media outlets say that Apple is strategically […]
Google announced that it will significantly enhance its online shopping capabilities at its developer event Google I/O in 2025. The features unveiled this time include a visual search panel based on 'AI Mode', personalized price alerts and automatic payments, and virtual fitting technology, and will be applied sequentially starting in the United States. Google's AI Mode shopping experience goes beyond a simple product listing to provide a visually organized panel and real-time user-tailored suggestions. For example, […]
Google has unveiled a new experimental tool called Stitch. Stitch is an AI-powered design tool that can design user interfaces with simple text descriptions or image inputs, and turn those results into actual front-end code. The tool, which debuted on May 20th through Google Labs, focuses on bridging the gap between design and development by leveraging the multimodal capabilities of the Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Stitch allows product designers and engineers to […]
Google unveiled its next-generation technology strategy centered on artificial intelligence at its I/O 2025 keynote in California, USA. The announcement introduced new experimental technologies such as strengthening image and video generation models, AI integration in existing services such as search, Gmail, and Chrome, and movie production apps and 3D video calling devices. First, in the search field, the 'AI Search Mode' based on Gemini AI will be available to all users across the United States. Starting this summer, deep […]
Google has officially released the mobile version of its AI-based note-taking app, NotebookLM. The service, which was only available on desktop last year, is now available on Android and iOS. This release comes a day before the Google I/O 2025 event. NotebookLM is a tool that helps you understand complex information more easily, providing smart summaries and document-based question-answering functions. The mobile app includes these functions […]
Apple has unveiled a number of accessibility features ahead of their upcoming release in the second half of this year. These updates focus on enhancing functionality for users with visual, hearing, and motor limitations, and are available across the entire product line, from Mac to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The most notable feature is the introduction of Magnifier for Mac. This feature brings the Magnifier feature, available on iPhone and iPad, to the Mac, enabling users with low vision to […]
