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Motorola Edge 60 Fusion Review: Minor Yet Meaningful Upgrades
Motorola’s Edge 50 Fusion was not the smartphone we expected it to be when we reviewed it last year. This year, Motorola decided on adding a few upgrades, which includes a slightly better processor,a slightly bigger battery and a new camera sensor to which essentially is the same phone. To our surprise, these smaller changes and optimisations do ...
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iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Added to Apple's Vintage and Obsolete Products List
Apple has updated its list of vintage and obsolete devices to include two more iPhone models — iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8. These smartphones are now considered outdated and their service and repairs will be limited. The Cupertino-based tech giant usually discontinues hardware service for certain products that are technologically obsolete due to d...
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Hogwarts Legacy Story Expansion Reportedly Cancelled as Part of Warner Bros. Games Restructuring
Warner Bros. reportedly cancelled a planned expansion for Hogwarts Legacy, its biggest gaming hit in recent years, as part of restructuring efforts at its games division. The DLC was targeting a 2025 release and would have added story content to the action-adventure game, a new Bloomberg report has claimed.
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OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI firm, is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents software development kit (SDK) is now offering MCP support, and several other products in the pipeline will soon adopt it as well.
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Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
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Adobe Begins Testing New AI Features in Premiere Pro, After Effects and Frame.io
Adobe introduced several new features for its video editing software and cloud-sharing platform on Wednesday. These features are being rolled out to the latest beta build of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects as well as to Frame.io. Premiere Pro is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features that will make it easier for users to search ...
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Apple Intelligence Writing Tools Support for Windows Apps Arrives on Parallels Desktop
Apple Intelligence can now be accessed while running Windows applications on a Mac computer using Parallels Desktop. The first wave of Apple Intelligence features started its rollout to US users earlier this week with the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 software updates, and Parallels has added support for the feature.
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Major Marketing Firm Admits To Listening To Your Phone Conversations: Report
A recent report reveals that a major marketing firm with clients including Facebook and Google, has admitted to using its "Active Listening" software to monitor smartphone conversations for targeted advertising.
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VisionOS 2 to Introduce Spatial Photo Conversion, New Hand Gestures, More on Apple Vision Pro
VisionOS 2 was unveiled by Apple during the keynote session of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 event. The company is introducing multiple new changes to the operating system’s interface, and adding new features and hand gestures. With the upcoming software update, users will also be able to convert any regular photos in the Photos...
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iOS 17.5 With EU Web Distribution for Apps, Cross-Platform Unwanted Tracker Alerts Released by Apple
iOS 17.5 update was been released for iPhone 15 and older models. The software upgrade comes alongside the iPadOS 17.5 update. Users will also be able to identify unknown third-party item trackers traveling with them. The iOS 17.5 update has also added support for downloading apps from websites instead of using third party apps or the App Store, b...
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Intel Announces New Initiatives for AI PC Developers and Hardware Vendors
Intel launched its AI PC Acceleration Program in October 2023 to connect independent hardware and software vendors with the company’s resources. On Tuesday, the company announced two more initiatives under the umbrella programme. The first initiative is called the AI PC Developer Program which is aimed at software developers, and a separate initi...
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Brave Browser Is Bringing its AI Assistant Leo to Android Devices
Brave browser, known for its privacy-focused features, is bringing its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Leo to Android devices. The software firm first announced its AI chatbot in November 2023, when Leo was added to the desktop browser. The company’s chatbot can run on several large language models, which are available for both the free ve...
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Adobe Introduces Generative AI Assistant That Can Summarise PDFs for Acrobat and Reader
Adobe has announced generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its web client and desktop app of Acrobat. The software giant has added an AI Assistant that can do multiple tasks and help users easily understand and analyse large PDF files. One notable feature will summarise files and present it in a formatted and easy to follow te...
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Apple Said to Be Preparing AI Tool for Developers, to Compete With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot
Apple is preparing to add a critical new software tool for app developers that would step up competition with Microsoft. The iPhone maker has been racing to add more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its services and has been working on the tool for the last year as part of the next major version of Xcode. Apple is also said to be expl...
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Series Gets Always-on Lock Screen Wallpaper Similar to iPhone 15 Pro Models: Report
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series seems to rely heavily on AI for some new and handy software features, but there’s another interesting new feature that is baked into One UI 6.1 and it’s not coming to the older models. Turns out, Samsung has quietly added a special always-on display which apes Apple’s Always-On Lock Screen feature, but adds its o...
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Motorola Edge 60 Fusion Review: Minor Yet Meaningful Upgrades
Motorola’s Edge 50 Fusion was not the smartphone we expected it to be when we reviewed it last year. This year, Motorola decided on adding a few upgrades, which includes a slightly better processor,a slightly bigger battery and a new camera sensor to which essentially is the same phone. To our surprise, these smaller changes and optimisations do ...
-
iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Added to Apple's Vintage and Obsolete Products List
Apple has updated its list of vintage and obsolete devices to include two more iPhone models — iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8. These smartphones are now considered outdated and their service and repairs will be limited. The Cupertino-based tech giant usually discontinues hardware service for certain products that are technologically obsolete due to d...
-
Hogwarts Legacy Story Expansion Reportedly Cancelled as Part of Warner Bros. Games Restructuring
Warner Bros. reportedly cancelled a planned expansion for Hogwarts Legacy, its biggest gaming hit in recent years, as part of restructuring efforts at its games division. The DLC was targeting a 2025 release and would have added story content to the action-adventure game, a new Bloomberg report has claimed.
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OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI firm, is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents software development kit (SDK) is now offering MCP support, and several other products in the pipeline will soon adopt it as well.
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Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
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Adobe Begins Testing New AI Features in Premiere Pro, After Effects and Frame.io
Adobe introduced several new features for its video editing software and cloud-sharing platform on Wednesday. These features are being rolled out to the latest beta build of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects as well as to Frame.io. Premiere Pro is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features that will make it easier for users to search ...
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Apple Intelligence Writing Tools Support for Windows Apps Arrives on Parallels Desktop
Apple Intelligence can now be accessed while running Windows applications on a Mac computer using Parallels Desktop. The first wave of Apple Intelligence features started its rollout to US users earlier this week with the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 software updates, and Parallels has added support for the feature.
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Major Marketing Firm Admits To Listening To Your Phone Conversations: Report
A recent report reveals that a major marketing firm with clients including Facebook and Google, has admitted to using its "Active Listening" software to monitor smartphone conversations for targeted advertising.
-
VisionOS 2 to Introduce Spatial Photo Conversion, New Hand Gestures, More on Apple Vision Pro
VisionOS 2 was unveiled by Apple during the keynote session of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 event. The company is introducing multiple new changes to the operating system’s interface, and adding new features and hand gestures. With the upcoming software update, users will also be able to convert any regular photos in the Photos...
-
iOS 17.5 With EU Web Distribution for Apps, Cross-Platform Unwanted Tracker Alerts Released by Apple
iOS 17.5 update was been released for iPhone 15 and older models. The software upgrade comes alongside the iPadOS 17.5 update. Users will also be able to identify unknown third-party item trackers traveling with them. The iOS 17.5 update has also added support for downloading apps from websites instead of using third party apps or the App Store, b...
-
Intel Announces New Initiatives for AI PC Developers and Hardware Vendors
Intel launched its AI PC Acceleration Program in October 2023 to connect independent hardware and software vendors with the company’s resources. On Tuesday, the company announced two more initiatives under the umbrella programme. The first initiative is called the AI PC Developer Program which is aimed at software developers, and a separate initi...
-
Brave Browser Is Bringing its AI Assistant Leo to Android Devices
Brave browser, known for its privacy-focused features, is bringing its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Leo to Android devices. The software firm first announced its AI chatbot in November 2023, when Leo was added to the desktop browser. The company’s chatbot can run on several large language models, which are available for both the free ve...
-
Adobe Introduces Generative AI Assistant That Can Summarise PDFs for Acrobat and Reader
Adobe has announced generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its web client and desktop app of Acrobat. The software giant has added an AI Assistant that can do multiple tasks and help users easily understand and analyse large PDF files. One notable feature will summarise files and present it in a formatted and easy to follow te...
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Apple Said to Be Preparing AI Tool for Developers, to Compete With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot
Apple is preparing to add a critical new software tool for app developers that would step up competition with Microsoft. The iPhone maker has been racing to add more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its services and has been working on the tool for the last year as part of the next major version of Xcode. Apple is also said to be expl...
-
Samsung Galaxy S24 Series Gets Always-on Lock Screen Wallpaper Similar to iPhone 15 Pro Models: Report
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series seems to rely heavily on AI for some new and handy software features, but there’s another interesting new feature that is baked into One UI 6.1 and it’s not coming to the older models. Turns out, Samsung has quietly added a special always-on display which apes Apple’s Always-On Lock Screen feature, but adds its o...
