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Meta will license the software underpinning its Quest headsets to third-party hardware manufacturers in a bid to spur wider adoption of mixed-reality technology.  Access to Horizon OS — the ...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094996/meta-opens-its-mixed-reality-horizon-os-to-other-headset-makers.html

Has there ever been something as simultaneously invaluable and irritating as our modern-day device notifications? All the beeps, bloops, and blorps our various gadgets send our way serve an imp...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094557/android-notification-power-up.html

Back in the 19th century, if the United States or some other military power wanted to bend a smaller country to its will, it would often display its might with a show of force, sending a fearsome...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094131/microsoft-uses-its-genai-leverage-against-china-prelude-to-a-tech-cold-war.html

WHAT IS ICLOUD DRIVE? In the simplest terms, iCloud Drive is Apple’s cross-platform cloud storage system that allows users to sync and store files, photos, videos, calendar events, contacts a...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1367384/how-to-fix-icloud-sync-in-seconds.html

Toxic work environments and a lack of internal upward mobility are adding to employee dissatisfaction, and many workers believe a primary cause of the problem stems from the behavior of their man...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094650/gen-z-workers-pick-genai-over-managers-for-career-advice.html

At its Adobe Max event in London, Adobe on Tuesday unveiled its latest Firefly Image generative AI (genAI) model, promising greater realism and improved controls over generated outputs. The nex...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094454/adobes-new-firefly-image-3-adds-genai-features-to-photoshop.html

While the employee benefits of the AI PC are intriguing, they may not be enough to convince IT buyers to go all in just yet, according to a Forrester report. Despite the enthusiasm generated by...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094407/enterprises-want-ai-pcs-just-not-yet.html

The four-day work week was unthinkable, except in science fiction, as recently as five years ago. But one of the many things the COVID-19 pandemic taught us is that the structure of the workplace...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093752/will-the-four-day-work-week-finally-come-to-pass.html

The Windows 11 2023 Update has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview buil...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614352/windows-11-insider-previews-whats-in-latest-build.html

While politicians who should know better waste time worrying  about green bubbles , Apple continues to explore opportunities in global markets as its traditional ones become increasingly stag...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093679/chasing-business-and-partnerships-apple-goes-apac.html

Microsoft is reminding customers that support for its Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites and related productivity servers will end on Oct. 14, 2025.  Microsoft issued the reminder this week ...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093653/microsoft-reminder-support-for-office-2016-and-2019-ends-next-year.html

Aimed at accelerating progress in AI development and responsible AI deployment, Alphabet-owned Google is consolidating its teams responsible for building AI models across Google Research and Goog...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093631/google-consolidates-ai-teams-into-deepmind-to-scale-capacity.html

Online meeting platform Zoom this week announced  updates to its meeting collaboration space Workplace, adding AI-powered capabilities that include a previously released “assistant” that of...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093454/zoom-launches-workplace-an-ai-enabled-collaboration-space.html

Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI might not trigger EU antitrust restrictions since it is unlikely to be viewed as an “acquisition” in the legal sense in that jurisdiction. A ...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093439/report-microsoft-openai-ownership-might-get-conditional-ok-from-eu-regulators.html

Apple has published its annual environmental report  detailing its progress towards becoming completely carbon neutral  by 2030. While critics will, of course, condemn the report as “greenw...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093419/apple-wants-to-improve-the-carbon-offset-market.html

Slack’s generative AI (genAI) features are now available to all customers on paid accounts, at a cost of $10 per user each month for those on Slack Pro and Business+ plans. The collaboratio...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2093412/slack-ai-now-available-to-all-paid-users-for-10-more-a-month.html

When people ask me why I prefer Android over that (cough, cough) other mobile platform, the answer is a little complicated. Sure, I like the diversity and different options Android affords me i...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2092059/android-app-drawer.html

We live and work in browsers. It’s where we spend most of our time — and it’s where we waste most of our time as well. Web browsing is slow, inefficient, and full of time-sapping annoyances...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1613111/microsoft-edge-productivity-tips.html

While Apple didn’t rush to embrace sideloading , developers can get ready for it in the EU, as support for this is now live in the latest iOS 17.5 beta. This is the first big improvement  ...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2092396/apple-sidles-into-sideloading-in-the-eu.html

Let’s get real for a minute: Much as the companies that create productivity apps would like to think otherwise, most of us don’t work and live entirely within any single software ecosystem. ...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2091680/how-workona-can-transform-your-team-collaboration.html