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New Windows 11 Insider Builds Are Available on the Beta Channel

The Windows 11 Insider build 22631.1900 will suggest users who don't interact with toast notifications…

Amazon Echo Devices Get Their First Custom Alexa-Based Assistant

Amazon Echo users can now pay to say "Hey, Disney!" and launch a Disney-themed alternative…

Windows 11 Chat
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R.I.P. … Chat? (Premium)

Chat is a Taskbar-based front-end for the consumer version of Microsoft Teams that Microsoft also…

Intel Details New Branding Changes Coming With its Meteor Lake CPUs

Intel announced this morning a new branding structure for its Core processors ahead of the…

Dev Channel Insiders Can Now Use Pen Input Anywhere They Can Type

The Windows 11 Insider build 23481 lets Dev Channel testers use their pen anwyhere they…

Win32 app isolation

Win32 App Isolation Enters Public Preview

Announced at Build 2023, Win32 app isolation is a new sandboxing technique that uses AppContainers…

PlayStation 5 games

Sony is Testing Cloud Streaming for PlayStation 5 Games

Sony is testing cloud streaming for PlayStation 5 games, and PlayStation Plus Premium members will…

Surface replacement components

Microsoft Store Now Offers Replacement Components for Surface Devices

Starting today, Microsoft is now offering replacement components for Surface devices in its Microsoft Store…

Stardock Groupy 2

Stardock Releases Groupy 2

Stardock today released Groupy 2, which brings tabs to all application windows in Windows 10…

OpenAI

OpenAI Announces API Updates and Price Cuts for Developers

OpenAI announced some updates for its GPT-3.5 turbo and GPT-4 generative AI models this week,…

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Ruling Speeds the Resolution of Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

A federal court ruling will allow Microsoft and Activision Blizzard to argue their case in…

Google

EU Hits Google With Antitrust Complain Over its Ad Tech Business

Two years after opening an investigation into Google’s anticompetitive practices in the digital advertising business,…

Report Details Internal Conflicts Over Microsoft’s AI Push

A Wall Street Journal report details the conflict and confusion that resulted when Microsoft decided…

Quick Windows 11 Field Guide Update

Over a month ago, I decided it was time to update all of the Microsoft…

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Google Issues the June 2023 Pixel Feature Drop, and It’s a Big One

Google today announced the rollout of the June 2023 Feature Drop, which includes updates for…

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Qualcomm Launches Android Developer Portal

Qualcomm's Android on Snapdragon website is a portal for Android developers who want to take…

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