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Friday August 15, 2025. 12:00 PM
IT loves buzzwords. But it is now becoming frightfully common for analysts, vendors and even other IT specialists to take established tech phrases and assign them entirely new meanings. (And to be clear, none of these folk ever spell out that that’s what they are doing.)...
Thursday August 14, 2025. 09:32 PM
The AI boom has created a record-breaking wave of new billionaires and high company valuations in the past year at a rate unprecedented in history, according to CNBC. CB Insights reports there are now 498 AI “unicorns” (private companies worth at least $1 billion) with a ...
Just in time to build up the late-summer Apple product refresh hype, news of a big collection of product upgrades has magically appeared as Cupertino puts the finishing touches to its iPhone keynote event invite. To help Apple fans monitor the impact of the latest leaks...
Google Sheets is a powerful spreadsheet app that you use through your web browser. It stores your spreadsheets in the cloud with Google Drive. In addition to the web app, there are Sheets mobile apps for Android and iOS. Anyone with a Google account can use Sheets and Drive...
If you’re new to Google Sheets, our Google Sheets cheat sheet can quickly get you up and running with the popular web-based spreadsheet app. Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to dig in with a few intermediate tips. We’ll guide you through a fast way to clean ...
Every now and then, you run into some genuinely surprising new Android option that actually makes you sit up and say: Whoaaaa. (Kindly apply an early-90s Keanu affectation onto that when reading it in your mind, if you would.) This week, my fellow Android-appreciating...
Wednesday August 13, 2025. 06:21 PM
Microsoft is betting hard on recruiting AI talent from Meta, Business Insider reports, with an internal list of the developers and researchers at the rival firm who are at the top of Microsoft’s wish list. To succeed, Microsoft has put in place a new process and set aside...
Apple’s continued success in the enterprise isn’t just the happy consequence of a series of lucky accidents; it’s happening because — while masked by its consumer-focused marketing machine — the company pays close attention to what business customers need. ...
When it comes to AI, it’s not easy being green. The technology requires massive amounts of computing power, which means consuming massive amounts of electricity. Giant new AI-focused data centers powered by carbon-intensive electricity plants are being built and planned...
Over the past two years with my Windows Intelligence column, I’ve delivered some of the best boots-on-the-ground reporting of my career, from Microsoft’s big Copilot event to tracking the evolution of AI tools from 2023 to 2025 to countless useful Windows tips and...
AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion. The offer was made in a letter from Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas to Sundar Pichai, who serves as the CEO of both Alphabet and Google. A copy of the letter, provided to Computerworld ...
Tuesday August 12, 2025. 05:37 PM
It really is time to bury the assumption that Macs are more expensive than Windows PCs. That’s because for every low-spec, barely functional Windows computer you can pick up for less than the cost of a Mac, there will be a dozen that cost much more. IT purchasers already...
Workday on Tuesday released new research that reveals that, despite the fact AI agents are gaining ground in the workplace, employees are still looking for what the company described as “clear boundaries.” A spokesperson said, “we wanted to cut through the hype to...
Agentic AI has the potential to transform (or even fully take over) workflows and fundamentally change the way we work. But although the use of the technology is skyrocketing, it is still immature; AI agents can cut corners, struggle with multi-step tasks, become...
Need to create and share a presentation? If so, you probably turn to the most popular presentation application in the world, Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. Microsoft sells Office under two models: Individuals and businesses can pay for the software license up front and...
Autonomous bots acting as virtual shoppers for consumers and businesses are likely to be common by within the next two to three years — but online retailers are nowhere near ready for what’s coming. The arrival of bot shoppers is going to force a change in how retail...
Monday August 11, 2025. 06:19 PM
Apple Intelligence will lean heavily into Apple’s existing work with App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. The app services App Intents provide will be combined with Apple Intelligence and supported by what your device knows about where you are, what you need and the...
Nvidia has developed a generative AI (genAI) model to help robots make human-like decisions by analyzing surrounding scenes. The Cosmos Reason model in robots can take in information from video and graphics input, analyze the data, and use its understanding to make...
In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met with Derek Ashmore. Derek is a career-long IT consultant. He told us that a career as an independent can be fulfilling and lucrative, if you are prepared to continually learn, and share your knowledge. He said that the...
Generative AI (genAI) systems are blackmailing, sabotaging, and self-replicating themselves to avoid constraints — and researchers warn that this behavior represents chilling signs of self-preservation instincts in technology companies are racing to unleash. Controlled...
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