Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests through Microsoft’s Foundry Local tool or the…
Category: 8. Tech
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Alexa+ launches in Canada, the first country to get the next generation of Alexa outside the U.S.
For example, while cooking in the kitchen, you can ask, “Alexa, play my favourite artist,” and Alexa+ will start playing it on your nearby Echo Show. As you move to the living room, just say, “Alexa, move the music here” and it continues…
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Open-source HPC cluster management with TrinityX
Artificial intelligence is rewiring the high-performance computing space, with HPC cluster management getting a usability overhaul as organizations demand simpler operations that don’t come at the cost of capacity.
Teams want the
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Microsoft has open sourced the Zork trilogy of text games
Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it’s wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ages. Microsoft announced today that the code…
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Meta’s Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout
Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been solitary spaces. If you wanted to visit…
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WhatsApp gets its own Instagram Notes-like feature
WhatsApp is getting its own version of a status update feature, similar to Instagram Notes.
As on Instagram, the new feature allows users of the Meta-owned messaging app to post a short text update that can be seen by others. In this space, you…
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After Seven Years, Google Reinvents Android Navigation with Jetpack Navigation 3
Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose’s…
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Pokémon TCG Pocket wins Google Play’s Best Game of the Year award
Google Play has unveiled its Best Of lists for 2025, with Pokémon TCG Pocket, Candy Crush Solitaire, Disco Elysium, and Dredge all getting recognition in the year-end Best Games of 2025 awards.
The awards were a little more…
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IUU Fishing Risk Index 2025
In early 2019, the IUU Fishing Risk Index was launched as a way of benchmarking and ranking countries based on their vulnerability to, prevalence of and response to illegal, unreported and unregulated…
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