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iPhone 14 users get an additional free year of Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature

November 15, 2023

Apple today announced it’s giving iPhone 14 users one more free year of its satellite-based Emergency SOS features. When the company initially announced the safety service, iPhone 14 customers recieved two free years. Apple didn’t extend the free period for iPhone 15 users, who have until September 2024 when their two years are up. Apple’s […]

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Amazon brings its home robot to businesses

November 15, 2023

In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics market is hard, Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more corporate audience. The company today announced Astro for Business, which repurposes Astro as a security robot for small- and medium-sized business customers. Astro for Business adds several new capabilities to Astro, including the ability […]

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Microsoft Teams gets an AI-powered home decorator

November 15, 2023

At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced a slew of interesting updates for Teams, its Slack-like collaboration and messaging service. Among the dozens of updates here, some of the highlights are the initial rollout of voice isolation, an AI-driven noise reduction feature that can not just reduce repetitive noise in the background but also […]

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Bing Chat is now Copilot

November 15, 2023

Everything’s coming up Copilot — including Bing. Today at Ignite, Microsoft renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise, has been rebranded to Copilot Pro. Why the name changes? Not to cause confusion, […]

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Google Photos turns to AI to organize and categorize your photos for you

November 15, 2023

Google Photos is rolling out a set of new features today that will leverage AI technologies to better organize and categorize photos for you. With the addition of something called Photo Stacks, Google will use AI to identify the “best” photo from a group of photos taken together and select it as the top pick […]

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