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Watch as 300 drones honor LGBTQ employees and allies with a light show featuring the Pride flag, same sex symbols and more.

Watch as 300 drones honor LGBTQ employees and allies with a light show featuring the Pride flag, same sex symbols and more.Intel Shooting Star drones lit up the nighttime sky over the company's at Folsom, California, campus on June 23 in a performance celebrating equality. The colorfully lit drones formed symbolic illustrations of the Pride flag, same-sex symbols and an unicorn. More than 20 years ago, the tech company formed the Intel Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Employee Resource Group (IGlobe) to help pave the way for domestic partner health benefits, the addition of gender ID to the non-discrimination clause and all-gender restrooms at US campuses, among other things. Intel currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying in the air simultaneously, two years in a row. The Intel Shooting Star drone weighs just over half a pound (280 grams) and can be electrically operated using a rotor. These Intel drones were specifically designed for putting on dramatic light shows. TECH TODAY Large play-pause toggle00:0001:14 TAGS Culture Sci-Tech Drones Intel by Taboola Sponsored Links MAY ALSO LIKE Are you smart enough to solve these puzzles? This game is so relaxing and addicting. play.google.com/Bubble_Bee Nigeria: Try this Football Betting Site with Free Deposits SportyBet If You Live in Nigeria, You Can Easily Immigrate To These Countries DestinationON Post a comment 6 comments You can now download Apple's iOS 12 public beta. Bring on the Memoji Get ready for plenty of animated selfie emoji -- but you won't be able to use Siri Shortcuts until the final version of the software is available this fall. Shara Tibken mugshot by Shara Tibken June 25, 2018 2:11 PM PDT ios-12 Apple's iOS 12 includes animated emoji selfies, streamlined notifications and a way to track your device usage. Apple If you've been dying to turn yourself into an animated cartoon, you're in luck. Apple's public beta version of iOS 12, with its new Memoji feature, is now available for download. The software, which runs on iPhones and iPads, won't be finalized and officially released until the fall. Those of you who can't wait until then can enroll in Apple's free, public beta program and access the early version of iOS 12 starting Monday. Apple unveils its newest mobile software each year in June at its Worldwide Developers Conference. It then releases the operating system to developers to make apps ahead of the iOS release, typically in September. In early 2015, it started letting the public test its mobile software with iOS 8.3. Offering the operating system early both to developers and the public aims to catch more bugs and make sure the software works well before it's rolled out to a broad audience. Large play-pause toggle00:0001:14 iOS 12, which will arrive with the next crop of iPhones in a few months, focuses more on bug fixes and smaller tweaks than major new updates. But it does have some new features that you'll be able to test out in the beta. One -- for iPhone X users -- is the updated Animoji, those animated emoji that track your facial movements and can be sent to friends through the Messages app. With iOS 12, you can make Memoji that look like you, turn yourself into a ghost or dinosaur or even stick out your tongue. You can put your Memoji on top of your body and use it during a FaceTime conversation. And with the beta, you'll be able to talk to up to 32 people in FaceTime at the same time. See also iOS 12 public beta is here: What's cool so far, and what's missing We tried out Apple Memoji on iOS 12. They're already pretty great Why you shouldn't download iOS 12 just yet Another new feature you'll be able to access is one that helps you actually use your phone less. The Screen Time app tells you how much you're using a device, what you're actually doing on it and even how often you pick up your iPhone. Apple revamped its Do Not Disturb feature to include a bedtime mode that dims the display and hides notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the morning. Do Not Disturb has new options from Control Center, where it can be set to automatically end based on a specified time or location. And Apple also gives users more options for controlling how notifications are delivered, and it tweaked its notifications to group similar items into a stack. Photos gets some updates, including a new "For You" tab that lets you easily share images with your contacts. And search in Photos works better, even letting you search multiple parameters at once. 48 Here are the biggest iOS 12 features Apple announced at WWDC 2018 Coming in the fall There are some new features you won't be able to access in the public beta -- largely because third-party apps won't be available yet. You won't really be able to tap into the new augmented reality features from ARKit 2. The biggest improvements -- like playing group games -- require third-party apps that won't hit the App Store until the fall. You will be able to access Apple's new Measure app, though, to determine the dimensions of things like boxes. Siri Shortcuts is another feature you won't really be able to use in the beta. The feature lets you create personalized requests for Apple's voice assistant, such as setting up a request that brings together a surf report, current weather, travel time to the beach and a sunscreen reminder, all by just saying, "Hey Siri, surf time." But third-party apps don't yet support the feature, and the standalone Shortcuts app won't hit iPhones and iPads until the fall. CNET DAILY NEWS Get today's top news and reviews collected for you. As with all betas, it's likely some things will change before the final release. And there could be bugs and other issues that come from downloading software still in development. The iOS 12 beta has a built-in Feedback Assistant app to give Apple information about your experience with the device. Download iOS 12 at your own risk -- and be sure to back up your iPhone or iPad before you do. As Apple warns, "since the public beta software has not yet been commercially released by Apple, it may contain errors or inaccuracies and may not function as well as commercially released software." The company advises people to only download the beta software on a secondary device or one that's not "business critical." 'Hello, humans': Google's Duplex could make Assistant the most lifelike AI yet. Tech Enabled: CNET chronicles tech's role in providing new kinds of accessibility. TAGS Phones Operating Systems Software Tablets iOS 11 iOS 12 Emoji Google Siri Apple by Taboola Sponsored Links MAY ALSO LIKE 10 Countries That Don’t Like Tourists Bored Articles 4 Common Types of Prescription Drugs with High Addiction Potential www.therapywithsaba.com Mad hotel prices. 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