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⋅ May 24, 2024
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CIO

Microsoft’s Copilot tunes could be music to CIOs’ ears
CIO
The updates announced at Microsoft’s Build annual developer conference are likely to help CIOs tackle priorities such as boosting productivity, retaining talent, and optimizing IT expenditure. Sign of the French headquarters of Microsoft.
The Washington Post

C. Gordon Bell, father of the minicomputer, dies at 89
The Washington Post
C. Gordon Bell, an engineer who helped usher in the era of modern computing by moving technology beyond the massive mainframes of the past and toward the desktops and laptops of the present, an innovation that made him known as the father of the …
CBS News

The best Memorial Day TV sales you can shop today at the biggest retailers
CBS News
Best Walmart Memorial Day TV deals · LG 70″ 70UQ7070ZUD UHD 4K smart TV: $498 (save $150) · Samsung 85″ Class QN900C Neo QLED 8K smart TV: $3,997 (save $4,002) · Philips 32″ Class HD Roku borderless LED smart TV: $118 (save $50).
ABC News

Judge to weigh proposed changes to Google’s Android app store to prevent anticompetitive tactics
ABC News
Google is confronting the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as a federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software.
BBC News

Google AI search says to glue pizza and eat rocks
BBC News
Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) search feature is facing criticism for providing erratic, inaccurate answers. Its experimental “AI Overviews” tool has told some users searching for how to make cheese stick to pizza better that they could use …
The Verge

Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza
The Verge
Imagine this: you’ve carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a homemade pizza. You assemble your pie, throw it in the oven, and are excited to start eating. But once you get ready to take a bite of your oily creation, you run into a problem …
MIT Technology Review

Noise-canceling headphones use AI to let a single voice through
MIT Technology Review
Called Target Speech Hearing, the system gives users the ability to select a person whose voice will remain audible even when all other sounds are canceled out. Advertisement.
CNET

Make Google Look Like 1998 Again: How to Get Just Links in Search Results
CNET
Even better, you can get those link-based results on Google just by searching with your browser address bar. We’ll show you how to do it on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge.
ABC News

Sony says focus is on creativity, with games, movies, music, sensors, IP, and not gadgets
ABC News
Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony says it’s focusing on creativity in movies, animation and video games, rather than old-fashioned gadgetry. ByYURI KAGEYAMA AP business writer. May 22, 2024, 9:29 PM.
Forbes

Copilot+ PCs Could Be A Privacy Nightmare For Professionals
Forbes
On a May 20th event on Microsoft’s Microsoft 0.0% campus, the Redmond, Washington company introduced Windows PCs designed specifically for AI—dubbed Copilot+ PCs. The new hardware at the core of the announcement are PCs with high-performance Neural …