Starting May 19, 2025, Google is rolling out Gemini’s Google Calendar controls to Gmail on Android and iOS. Users can now ask Gemini to create, edit, or delete calendar events directly from the mobile app. The same features recently launched on the web now work on mobile too. Tapping theContinue Reading
It’s called TikTok AI Alive. TikTok is making it a lot easier for its creators to use AI. TikTok AI Alive, a feature the app launched on Tuesday, helps users turn static photos into “captivating, short-form videos enhanced with movement, atmospheric and creative effects” when they use the TikTok Story Camera. “WeContinue Reading
The monthly security update for May addressed numerous “critical” and “high risk” security vulnerabilities across Microsoft products and services. Yesterday was Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft provided security updates that addressed 77 new vulnerabilities, with five security vulnerabilities in Windows already being exploited in the wild, and several others in WindowsContinue Reading
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