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The best Android app drawer enhancement you’ll ever make
When people ask me why I prefer Android over that (cough, cough) other mobile platform, the answer is a little complicated. Sure, I like the diversity and different options Android affords me in terms...
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11 top productivity tips for Microsoft Edge
We live and work in browsers. It’s where we spend most of our time — and it’s where we waste most of our time as well. Web browsing is slow, inefficient, and full of time-sapping annoyances. But it...
View ArticleSlack AI now available to all paid users for $10 more a month
Slack’s generative AI (genAI) features are now available to all customers on paid accounts, at a cost of $10 per user each month. The collaboration software vendor, owned by Salesforce, brought the...
View ArticleApple wants to improve the carbon offset market
Apple has published its annual environmental report detailing its progress towards becoming completely carbon neutral by 2030. While critics will, of course, condemn the report as “greenwash,” it’s...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft-OpenAI ownership might get conditional OK from EU regulators
Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI might not trigger EU antitrust restrictions since it is unlikely to be viewed as an “acquisition” in the legal sense in that jurisdiction. A report...
View ArticleZoom offers AI-based updates to its Workplace collaboration space
Online meeting platform Zoom this week announced updates to its meeting collaboration space Workplace, adding AI-powered capabilities that include a previously released “assistant” that offers...
View ArticleGoogle consolidates AI teams into DeepMind to scale capacity
Aimed at accelerating progress in AI development and responsible AI deployment, Alphabet-owned Google is consolidating its teams that are responsible for building AI models across Google Research and...
View ArticleMicrosoft reminder: Support for Office 2016 and 2019 ends next year
Microsoft is reminding customers that support for its Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites and related productivity servers will end on Oct. 14, 2025. Microsoft issued the reminder this week that...
View ArticleChasing business and partnerships, Apple goes APAC
While politicians who should know better waste time worrying about green bubbles, Apple continues to explore opportunities in global markets as its traditional ones become increasingly stagnant....
View ArticleWill the four-day work week finally come to pass?
The four-day work week was unthinkable, except in science fiction, as recently as five years ago. But one of the many things the COVID-19 pandemic taught us is that the structure of the workplace can...
View ArticleEnterprises want AI PCs, just not yet
While the employee benefits of the AI PC are intriguing, they may not be enough to convince IT buyers to go all in just yet, according to a Forrester report. Despite the enthusiasm generated by PC...
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Adobe’s new Firefly Image 3 adds genAI features to Photoshop
At its Adobe Max event in London, Adobe on Tuesday unveiled its latest Firefly Image generative AI (genAI) model, promising greater realism and improved controls over generated outputs. The...
View ArticleGen Z workers pick genAI over managers for career advice
Toxic work environments and a lack of internal upward mobility are adding to employee dissatisfaction, and many workers believe a primary cause of the problem stems from the behavior of their...
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How to fix iCloud sync in seconds
What is iCloud Drive? In the simplest terms, iCloud Drive is Apple’s cross-platform cloud storage system that allows users to sync and store files, photos, videos, calendar events, contacts and other...
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A crafty new Android notification power-up
Has there ever been something as simultaneously invaluable and irritating as our modern-day device notifications? All the beeps, bloops, and blorps our various gadgets send our way serve an important...
View ArticleMicrosoft uses its genAI leverage against China — prelude to a tech Cold War?
Back in the 19th century, if the United States or some other military power wanted to bend a smaller country to its will, it would often display its might with a show of force, sending a fearsome...
View ArticleMeta opens its mixed-reality Horizon OS to other headset makers
Meta will license the software underpinning its Quest headsets to third-party hardware manufacturers in a bid to spur wider adoption of mixed-reality technology. Access to Horizon OS — the operating...
View ArticleThe end of non-compete agreements is a tech job earthquake
Frankly, I didn’t think the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had the guts to ban non-compete agreements that prevent many workers from joining rival companies. I was wrong. On Tuesday, by a 3-2...
View ArticleWindows 10: A guide to the updates
The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as one of Microsoft’s feature updates (such as Windows 10 version 22H2) is released, the...
View ArticleWindows 11: A guide to the updates
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. As with Windows 10, Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and...
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