iOS 14 can turn your iPhone into a car key

iOS 14 offers a lot of new features for users to take advantage of, but we haven't mentioned the automotive and mobility features the mobile platform offers. Apple is also improving Apple Maps and CarPlay experience with this new version of its operating system.

One of the more notable additions is turning your iPhone into your car's key with the aptly named Car Key. The feature is coming in the fall, with support for iOS 13 as well. It'll first work with the new 2021 BMW 5-Series, with other vehicles and automakers expected to support the feature next year. 

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These are the new iOS 14 standout features

There might be no new Apple hardware surprises at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, but the company has introduced a whole bunch of new features for its different platforms. For iOS 14, Apple is playing catch-up with Android with some of the useful features it's introducing to the platform. We're going to do a quick rundown on some notable ones.

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Sobeys' Voilà online grocery home delivery service launches in Vaughan, coming to rest of GTA soon

Sobeys has launched an online grocery home delivery service called Voilà. It's coming first to Vaughan, Ontario, and will be available in the rest of the Greater Toronto Area in the coming weeks. There are plans to bring the service to major cities in Quebec as well.

Customers can order essentials from Sobeys, Farm Boy, and Well.ca, which the company claims to be the only grocery retailer to offer these options. The orders are placed in one-hour delivery windows, allowing you to order online or through the Voilà app.

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Apple to move away from Intel processors as it shifts to its own ARM architecture

At today's streamed Apple World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) Apple announced that it has been looking to move its Mac latops and desktops away from Intel processors and towards its own Apple Silicon. Demos at the pre-recorded event were created on Mac minis running Apple's A12 processors, identical to the ones running on the latest iPad Pros. Apple's last major architecture move was when it moved from PowerPC chips to Intel in 2005, Apple's A processors that have powered iPhones and iPads for the apst decade have shown staggering performance and great battery life. Moving the entire Apple hardware line to a unified ARM-powered architecture opens up a lot of opportunity for users and for developers.

Apple expects the transition to Apple Silicon to take around two years with the first Apple-powered Mac hardware shipping by the end of 2020 as per Tim Cook's on stage announcement. As for the majority of Mac users running on Intel, Apple says it will continue support for the foreseeable future. The advantage of Apple running its software on its own silicon include improved performance and continous upgrade paths without the usual stalling that's happened with companies depending on Intel to iterate.

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