After 22 years of service the video calling app Skype is being switched off by Microsoft. Leaked code already pointed toward the Microsoft-acquired app being shifted to the company’s own Teams video calling platform. There are plenty of good Skype alternatives and we’ve compiled a list of seven that should helpContinue Reading
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched a new AI model that it claims to have the ability to read human emotions. The model is called “R1-Omni,” and it is developed by Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab. By reading emotions, Alibaba’s R1-Omni aims to stay ahead of its rivals, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.Continue Reading
‘Dark Storm Team’ Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on Monday Repeated outages on social media platform X – formerly Twitter – on Monday are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform, conjoined withContinue Reading
A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced a new “native” Copilot app for Windows. However, the excitement quickly faded when users discovered that the program was still a web app. Now, Microsoft is finally addressing the complaints with a truly native XAML Copilot app for Windows 11. Also, the latest updateContinue Reading
Microsoft recently increased the price of the Microsoft 365 subscription, justifying the change by adding more AI experiences to the service. Of course, that upset quite a few users, so Microsoft is now making a move in the opposite direction by letting Windows customers use Office apps for free. Users noticedContinue Reading
The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited Windows zero-days. The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with the rollout of urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited zero-days in its flagship Windows platform. Redmond’s security response team patchedContinue Reading
The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry bets he’ll take action soon after returning to the White House. Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin “seems like a scam,”Continue Reading
TikTok is undeniably a cultural phenomenon, with the platform having over 100 million Americans with an account, and the average user spending around 95 minutes per day. In fact, the platform’s popular short-form video style has been copied by US tech giants like Meta for Instagram and Facebook Reels, and Google with YouTube Shorts. As the app grew,Continue Reading
With new laptops introduced at CES, Dell’s 2025 lineup will be missing some very familiar names. Branding is important. Corporations spend millions of dollars every year to make sure that words like “Tacoma” and “Sleep Number” press the right buttons in your brain. And Dell has spent decades putting thatContinue Reading
A new icon and a new name are just the tip of the iceberg. Neowin reports that tech giant Microsoft will be shaking up the user interface of its Microsoft 365 app early next year. In addition, the app will be getting a new icon and a small name change, henceforthContinue Reading