4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (596+ words) Twenty-five years ago, I sat near the front of the room while then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs rolled out Apple’s digital hub strategy, a vision in which the Mac would become the central manager of all manner of portable digital devices....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (622+ words) Adobe on Wednesday unveiled a range of updates to Acrobat, including the ability to turn PDF documents into interactive visual reports and podcasts. And a new Knowledge Base feature connects Adobe’s Acrobat AI assistant to document sources such as Microsoft…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (470+ words) Computerworld Late-breaking reports suggest Apple has built a new Siri AI ‘Recaps’ feature that summarizes your day for you The idea sounds great until you recognize that this summary will also include overheard conversations Suspending the huge red flag…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (691+ words) By now, you probably know my stance on Gemini and other generative AI gobbledegook — right? In short: It’s an insanely powerful form of technology (obviously). But it’s also wildly inaccurate and ineffective as an all-purpose answer engine, and by cramming…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (481+ words) An important but potentially fragile trend is emerging in the data being reported by smartphone industry trackers: while painful component price increases are denting overall phone sales, the iPhone’s market share continues to increase. This likely reflects two key truths:…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (605+ words) Perplexity on Tuesday rolled out an offering that runs the AI entirely on a local machine, and that, it said, will keep “private data local and escalating to the cloud only when a task needs it.” The service, called simply…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (243+ words) You can’t have missed all the recent leaks. What used to be occasional glimpses into Apple’s future plans, followed by scripted public events, has now become a cadence of leaks followed by announcements. Using the upcoming folding iPhone as an…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1797+ words) Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, can do many things, but one of its best uses is as a researcher, for pretty much anything you want in business or personal use. If you’re looking for in-depth information, there’s a lot more…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (721+ words) With the launch of “Slack Code” channels, Slack this week introduced a new way for developers and non-tech staff to work collaboratively with coding agents. While Slack already integrates with several coding agents, developers have to interact with them independently…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (503+ words) After a week of using Google’s new Pixel 11 phones, two seemingly at-odds realities are crystal clear in my mind: Interestingly enough, these two realities manage to exist harmoniously — because they’re both very much accurate and very much true. The real…...