For the second year running, Weather from Microsoft Start has been crowned the “overall most accurate weather forecast provider globally” by ForecastWatch. Traditionally, weather forecasting relied on supercomputers and complex simulations. Microsoft Start changed this process by integrating AI with vast weather datasets, large-scale computing models, topographical information, and even real-time user reports. This approach […]
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Microsoft announced updates to improve the responsiveness of the user interface in Microsoft Edge. These updates make using the browser itself faster and smoother, regardless of the websites you visit. The first improvements, available in Edge version 122, focus on the Browser Essentials UI. This has elements like the address bar, tabs, and favorites. Users […]
Small business owners using Google Business Profiles are about to lose a communication channel. Google announced it will disable the chat and call history features within Business Profiles starting July 15th, 2024. Existing chats can continue until July 31st, after which the feature will be completely shut down. This move by Google comes as a […]
Jan Leike, previous head of the superalignment team who recently departed OpenAI, along with a co-founder, has joined competitor Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Google and Amazon. Leike’s move comes after his resignation from OpenAI earlier this month, following the disbanding of the superalignment group he co-led. This group, formed in 2023, focused on […]
Google today announced new AI-powered upgrades for its Chromebook Plus series, making these laptops smarter and more useful than before. With a price starting at $350, the Chromebooks now include features like “Help me write” to assist with top-quality writing tasks, “Gemini” to help brainstorm and make plans, and “Magic Editor” which makes photo editing […]
Earlier in March, Microsoft announced the end of support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), a feature that lets users run Android apps and games on their Windows PCs. However, a recent partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent has sparked hope for WSA’s survival, at least for users in China, who also received PC Manager recently. The […]
Microsoft today announced new plans for its Teams digital event platforms. First, they will continue to support Teams Live Events longer. Second, they will work faster on the newer Town Hall solution. The big tech company first showed the Town Hall in September 2023, saying it would replace Teams Live Events. Based on the customer […]
Have you been sitting in a meeting, scribbling notes at full speed and hoping for a more real-time way to work together with your team? It appears that Microsoft has been listening to our common desires. They have introduced a characteristic which is going to alter the whole playing field for collaborative note taking: Loop […]
In an official announcement today, Microsoft confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be included with Xbox Game Pass on its release date. This follows earlier reports of internal discussions at Microsoft regarding the strategy. “We’re excited to confirm that Game Pass members will be able to jump into Call of Duty: Black […]
Opera moved to Google Gemini’s models for its AI tool, Aria. It now has an image-understanding feature, just like Gemini. The post Aria, Opera browser’s AI chatbot, gets image-understanding feature like Google Gemini appeared first on MSPoweruser.