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Salesforce’s efforts to embed Slack into its product portfolio ramped up this week with the general release of Sales Elevate, a new offering that natively integrates Sales Cloud into the popular chat app.It’s the first time Slack has customized its app to the needs of...

UK intelligence agencies are campaigning for the government to weaken surveillance laws, arguing that the current safeguards limit their ability to train AI models due to the large amount of personal data required.GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 have been increasingly using AI...

Apple, Adobe, Pixar, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and the Joint Development Foundation have joined forces to develop a standard that can be used to underpin mixed- and virtual-reality experiences — a move that also undermine Meta's efforts in the AR/VR arena.Opening up the 3D...

When Bill Mandaria was a young architect decades ago, he would follow senior designers around his office to pick their brains to learn the profession.“In architecture, and I’d imagine in a lot of other industries, what’s particularly important is the mentorship,” said...

Your Windows PC’s Snap feature is either the best feature you’re not using, or the best feature you’re probably not using to its full potential. Sure, you may have snapped some windows, but do you know about all the keyboard shortcuts, Snap Layouts, and Snap Groups —...

One of the new features in the upcoming iOS 17 is NameDrop, which lets iPhone and Apple Watch users swap contact details with others in seconds. It's the kind of thing plenty of your colleagues and customers will want to try out. Here's how it works.In brief, the...

Once upon a time, Google was absolutely gaga over Google Assistant.Remember those days? You should. They really weren't that long ago.Back as recently as 2020 — in the last year the annual Consumer Electronics Show was held in person before going digital during the...

Apple has created a counter-intuitive business success with iPhones across the last couple of years. It's managed to upsell the world to purchasing its more expensive Pro models, and we think it aims to do the same again this year.The company has recognized that when...

Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has for years been sounding the alarm about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.It...

Apple is at war with device fingerprinting — the use of fragments of unique device-specific information to track users online. This fall, it will put in place yet another important limitation to prevent unauthorized use of this kind of tech.Apple at WWDC 2023...

Chipmaker AMD on Friday said it will invest $400 million in India over the next five years to expand research, development, and engineering operations.The strategic investment by the chipmaker includes a new design center in Bengaluru, which is expected to become...

As lawmakers and others work to address privacy, security, and bias problems with generative artificial intelligence (AI), experts warned companies this week that their tech suppliers won’t be holding the bag when something goes wrong — they will.A panel of three AI...