Just a month after announcing artificial intelligence integration with its search engine Bing and browser Edge, Microsoft is introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot, a tool that’ll work with you in its collection of apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and more. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft said the new AI tool will increase creativity and productivity. “Copilot …
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Adobe to Acquire Web Design Platform Figma for $20B
Adobe is acquiring Figma, a leading web design platform, for $20 billion in stock and cash, the company said Thursday. Adobe touted Figma’s widely used collaborative design tools in its announcement. Figma had been the strongest competitor for Adobe’s own web design tool, Adobe XD. Figma will continue to operate autonomously while also having ways to accelerate its growth, Figma …
Read More »Tim Cook’s Fix for Android Texting Woes: ‘Buy Your Mom an iPhone’
The same day that Apple launched its new iPhone, Tim Cook said that, if you want to be able to text seamlessly with an Android-wielding parent, you should “buy your mom an iPhone” — adding that he doesn’t “hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy on that at this point.” The comments came at Vox Media’s …
Read More »iPhone 14 Pro Will Reportedly Move Privacy Indicators to Pill
This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. Apple’s next iPhone may have a new-look cutout on its screen for its cameras and privacy indicators, various outlets are reporting. The design is expected to be revealed at next week’s Apple event. The iPhone 14 Pro is rumored …
Read More »PC and Tablet Shipments Expected to Fall Through 2023, IDC Forecasts
Shipments of PCs and tablets will decline in 2022, and again in 2023, before starting to grow again, market researcher IDC said in a forecast released Thursday. IDC expects PC shipments to decline 12.8% and tablet shipments to decline 6.8% this year. It expects a decline of another 2.6% in 2023 across the two categories before shipments begin to increase …
Read More »Waze Carpool to Shut Down as Commutes Drop Off
Waze will begin shutting down Waze Carpool, the ride-sharing cousin of real-time traffic and navigation app Waze, in September, the company said in a statement shared with CNET on Thursday. After the pandemic upended commuting patterns, or eliminated commutes altogether, Waze is shifting its focus. “While Waze was predominantly a commuting app pre-COVID, today the proportion of errands and travel …
Read More »We Watched More TV on Streaming Than Cable for First Time Ever, Nielsen Says
Streaming services captured the largest share of television viewing for the first time ever in July, according to data released Thursday from Nielsen, the television ratings authority. Of all the TV watching time in July, 34.8% happened over streaming while 34.4% happened over cable. Broadcast TV captured a 21.6% share of the total. Nielsen noted that streaming has surpassed broadcast …
Read More »The Harry Potter Movies Are Leaving HBO Max for Peacock
The eight Harry Potter movies are leaving HBO Max in the latest installment of the streamer’s tennis match with Peacock over the rights to stream the films. As of Aug. 31, fans of the franchise will need to visit rival service Peacock, which got the films at the start of July, to stream them. HBO Max subscribers won’t be completely …
Read More »Log4j Vulnerability Could Be Here For a Decade, Cyber Safety Review Board Says
US government agencies have spent tens of thousands of hours securing the Log4j vulnerability since its discovery in December, the Cyber Safety Review Board said Thursday in its inaugural report to the public. Yet this vulnerability could be a cybersecurity issue for a decade or more, the board said. The vulnerability in a widely used Java-logging library Apache Log4j can be …
Read More »Galaxy Watch 5 Leak Shows 360
Leaks have apparently offered us our best look yet at the upcoming Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, with full 360-degree views shown in renders obtained by reliable leaker 91mobiles. The imagery shows the Galaxy Watch 5 in black and white and the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro in black and gray titanium. Official 3D turntable renders of the Samsung Galaxy …
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