From The Verge: Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat today, complete with the ability to use AI agents. Copilot Chat is Microsoft’s latest attempt to get people used to using AI at work and relying on it enough to tempt them into paying $30 per month...

From PC Mag: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is laying off about 5% of the company, or roughly 3,600 people, according to an internal memo shared with multiple news outlets this week.

"This is going to be an intense year, and I want to make sure we have the best people on our teams," Zuckerberg wrote in...

From PC World: Microsoft really, really, really wants you to ditch Windows 10 and upgrade to Windows 11 already. (Better yet, just buy a new PC!) The company says that 2025 is “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” and they’re trying their best to will that slogan into reality.

Case in point: A...

From The Verge: Samsung has announced a change to its Galaxy Trade-In program that allows consumers to trade in select Galaxy smartphone models to the company year-round, without the need to make a new purchase at the same time.

The new program is set to start today in South Korea and France, with...

From PC Mag: What blew people away about Google Docs was that multiple people could be editing the same document live in real-time. It’s one thing to do this for simple text input, but drawing and image editing are a different story. So, Adobe is bringing that same gee-whiz capability to its...

From PC World: Google recently announced a new update to its Google Drive cloud storage service that will make it much faster to synchronize your local copy of files on your computer with those stored in the cloud.

To understand how this works, consider one really huge text document that’s maybe...

From CNET: Motorola's $200 Moto G 5G and $300 Moto G Power 5G both pack big improvements, compared with what you could get last year in phones that cost under $300. In particular, Motorola's new $300 Moto G Power phone is gaining both IP68 and IP69 certifications, making it one of the cheapest...

From The Verge: Adobe is launching new generative AI tools that can automate labor-intensive production tasks like editing large batches of images and translating video presentations. The most notable is “Firefly Bulk Create,” an app that allows users to quickly resize up to 10,000 images or replace...

From PC Mag: The US has unveiled more restrictions on advanced AI chip exports, according to a White House press release published on Monday.

The rules, which were leaked earlier this month, take a nation-based approach where countries are divided into one of three tiers. One tier puts no chip...

From PC World: Could 2024 have been any worse for Sonos? The once-beloved connected speaker brand left its reputation in tatters after a rushed, misguided app update, then launched a pair of pricey headphones that, from all accounts, landed with a thud.

Faced with a mob of enraged users, Sonos has...