All right, my fellow productivity-minded Pixel possessor — it’s that time: Time to set aside all “ooh, shiny!” sensations, put on your practical thinking cap, and consider closely if Google’s latest and greatest Pixel gadgets are actually worth your while to buy. El Googaloo took the wraps off its new Pixel 10 and Pixel 10

Poor Apple customers in the UK will suffer what they must as politically driven regulators make the same existential threats against Apple and Google as those made by the EU.  Apple has warned that the rules proposed by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will cause numerous harms to the user experience its customers enjoy.  Bad for one and bad

A research team from Zhejiang University and Alibaba Group has introduced Memp, a framework that gives large language model (LLM) agents a form of procedural memory designed to make them more efficient at complex, multi-step tasks. Instead of relearning workflows from scratch, Memp enables agents to store, retrieve, and update past experiences in real time.

Virtually every aspect of technology has been affected, and potentially improved, by artificial intelligence (AI). PCs are no exception. While the meaning of “AI PC” is still evolving, it generally refers to a computer specifically designed to excel at AI-powered tasks. These beefed-up computers typically feature:  High-end CPUs and GPUs to handle the demanding computational

With stressful migrations from Windows 10 to Windows 11 still ongoing in many organizations, Microsoft has thrown system administrators a small but helpful lifeline. Although it announced the new service last November at Ignite 2024, Microsoft only released Windows Backup for Organizations this week. The somewhat misleading name masks its real purpose: making it easier

A new version of LibreOffice, a popular open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, won’t run on 32-bit PCs, or support the Windows 7 or 8 operating systems. The Document Foundation earlier this month released version 25.8 of the free productivity suite, which was downloaded 642,564 times in its first week, according to a blog entry on

Figures published by Google last week minimizing the energy and water consumption of individual queries answered by its AI services are still not giving us the full picture of AI energy use, according to an article in MIT Technology Review on Thursday. The writer went on to raise further questions about AI’s resource consumption that

When it’s not spitting out phony game tips, suggesting you put glue on pizza, or trash-talking itself and its creator, Google’s shoddy AI Overview feature has, apparently, taken up the mantle against AI and robot discrimination. As flagged by a user on the r/Artificial subreddit, searching the term “clanker” on Google causes the AI Overview

As the western world braces for the “pop” of an enormous AI spending bubble, it seems China is going all-in on the AI hype. Yesterday, the Chinese State Council — the government body responsible for carrying out Chinese Government policy, sort of like the executive branch of the US — released its ten-year plan for

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT’s propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it’s scanning users’ conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. “When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines