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Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build?

The Windows 11 2023 Update has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest

  

Dropbox adds end-to-end encryption for team folders

Dropbox now offers end-to-end encryption and key management for customers on certain paid plans, part of a range of updates

  

The unspoken obnoxiousness of Google’s Gemini improvements

Depending on your perspective, two very different stories are a-brewin’ right now here in the land o’ Googley matters. In

  

Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 15

What a long, strange trip it’s been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally

  

Apple reportedly cuts Vision Pro production due to low demand

Apple has cut Vision Pro production due to low demand for the $3,500 mixed reality headset, according to Ming-Chi Kuo,

  

Google can’t seem to quit cookies, delays killing them again

Google this week once again said it will delay plans to eliminate third-party identity tracking software — cookies — from

  

Windows 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.

  

Windows 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

  

The 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

  

Gen 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

  

Meta 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

  

Panasonic opens 5G private network testing environment

B2B technology company Panasonic Connect has opened a 5G hub in Germany.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

Proximus to acquire more 3.6 GHz spectrum

The Belgian telco has agreed to purchase additional spectrum from an IT services company.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

Report: Global Private Wireless Radio Access Network (RAN) revenues are up 40% in 2023

A new Dell’Oro Group report suggests that despite its small size, the private RAN market is growing.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

Microsoft 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

  

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

  

Google 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 responsible for building

  

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

  

Enterprises 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

  

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

  

Will 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

  

Chasing 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

  

Microsoft 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

  

Slack AI now available to all paid users

Slack’s generative AI (genAI) features are now available to all customers on paid accounts, at a cost of $10 per user each

  

Zoom 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

  

Apple 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: 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

  

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

  

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

  

Apple sidles into sideloading in the EU

While Apple didn’t rush to embrace sideloading, developers can get ready for it in the EU, as support for this is

  

Report: Worldwide smartphone market up 7.8% in first quarter of 2024

Global smartphone shipments have risen to 289.4 million units.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

Orange expands partnership with Google Cloud

The company says it has expanded its agreements to advance its deployment of artificial intelligence.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

Proximus and Airbus partner on secure 5G

The companies are launching a business-critical communications solution for the Belgian market.5G ObservatoryRead More

  

How Workona can transform your team collaboration

Let’s get real for a minute: Much as the companies that create productivity apps would like to think otherwise, most

  

The webcam privacy guide for Windows PCs

Is someone watching your PC’s webcam? Modern laptops are packed with webcam LEDs, privacy shutters, and even switches that physically

  

Anthropic’s latest version of Claude comes to Amazon Bedrock

The most up-to-date version of Anthropic’s Claude AI, Claude 3 Opus, is now available on Amazon’s Bedrock managed AI service,

  

20 iPhone tips you might not have seen

Most iPhone users know that to delete the last number you typed in Calculator you must swipe a finger right

  

Windows 10 Insider Previews: A guide to the builds

Microsoft never sleeps. In addition to its steady releases of major and minor updates to the current version of Windows

  

Adobe Premiere Pro to get Firefly genAI video features

Adobe will bring its Firefly generative AI (genAI) video model to its Premiere Pro video editing app later this year,

  

AMD’s new mobile and desktop chips push hard into AI

AMD’s latest desktop and laptop processors put the company squarely in the emerging AI PC market with the integration of

  

You’re not really still using Windows XP, are you?

I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified at how much out-of-date technology we’re still using. Maybe both. Both

  

US grants Samsung $6.4 billion to boost local chip production

The US has committed $6.4 billion in grants to help Samsung expand its semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Texas in a

  

Apple’s iPhone slumps as consumers wait for AI

IDC’s latest preliminary data on the smartphone market suggests Apple’s traditionally weakest smartphone quarter might be a little weaker than usual this

  

Do cloud-based genAI services have an enterprise future?

While generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models are expected to shrink down in size to fit more defined needs and corporate

  

This month’s Patch Tuesday release is a big one

Microsoft released 149 updates in this month’s Patch Tuesday release, though there were no reports of public disclosures or other

  

How Intel’s ‘AI everywhere’ strategy could challenge Nvidia’s dominance

At its annual Intel Vision conference, CEO Pat Gelsinger laid out an ambitious roadmap that includes generative artificial intelligence (genAI)

  

After cloud providers, UK antitrust regulator takes aim at AI

The UK’s antitrust regulator has put tech giants on notice after expressing concern that developments in the AI market could

  

Will AI end Apple’s existential crisis?

Consider this: Apple has been working with artificial intelligence (AI) in specific domains for many years. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT emerged

  

5 advanced tricks for Google’s Circle to Search on Android

One of my favorite Android features right now is something that’s simultaneously new and familiar. It’s Circle to Search —

  

The desktop processor market is suddenly hot again

The desktop/laptop market has been pretty quiet for several years. Windows carved out its dominant space, and despite repeated claims

  

USB-C explained: How to get the most from it (and why it keeps on getting better)

Now that you’re used to seeing co-workers, family, and strangers at coffee shops, offices, and planes using the oblong USB-C

  

Apple: People in more than 92 nations are being surveilled

Far from shrinking, the scale of mercenary surveillance companies paid by governments to spy on journalists, human rights campaigners, and other

  

How to use PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel

Spreadsheets can be vast, often containing thousands of rows of repetitive data that makes them impossible to parse at a

  

The AI talent shortage — can companies close the skills gap?

Your deep generative AI (genAI) large language model (LLM) knowledge and experience could set you up for a $1 million