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The FCC has officially proposed, and voted unanimously to move forward with, a framework under which satellites can communicate directly with smartphones in a structured and useful way. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, circulated earlier this month and formally voted on today, is essentially a complete first public draft of what the FCC hopes to […]

FCC proposes satellite-to-phone rules to eliminate ‘no signal’ once and for all by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

I know at least one TC staffer who is gutted by the inevitable second death of Google Glass. I won’t call them out by name, but will say that I empathize with seeing a tech giant reverse the truck to drive over a beloved piece of technology once again. Is it possible to be ahead […]

Goodbye Google Glass, we knew you well by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi — but taking the wider job market, the overall pace of recruiting engineers and other technical talent has not let up. Now, one of the bigger players in the area of technical recruitment […]

Technical recruitment platform Karat snaps up Triplebyte to add AI-based quizzes for engineers by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

During an AI-focused press event today, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, its latest push to embed its suite of productivity and enterprise apps with AI. Currently in testing with select commercial customers, Copilot combines the power of models similar to OpenAI’s recently announced GPT-4 with business data and Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, […]

Microsoft 365 gets a host of new AI-powered features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The U.K. has become the latest jurisdiction to ban social video app TikTok from Government devices, confirming reports that surfaced earlier this week. The ban follows a security review ordered by U.K. ministers looking to establish whether Government data could be compromised from social networks installed on work devices. Indeed, the review did include other […]

The UK joins other countries in banning TikTok from Government devices by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch