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Microsoft 365 Copilot — a new desktop productivity revolution begins

20-07-2023 18:28

Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.I remember when Office was first announced and released. Compared to the mess of applications that came before it, it was a Godsend. Yes, Lotus Symphony was on the market and many of us preferred it — at least, those of us in accounting because it was spreadsheet-based. But it would not have arrived at all had not Office shown up first.Office turned out to be better for most users. Even with challenges from rivals like IBM and Google/Alphabe

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Apple eyes a late arrival to the generative AI party

20-07-2023 15:32

Apple has created its own generative AI tools to compete with large language model (LLM) services such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.Bloomberg (which also today reported plans for Apple to buy Disney), says Apple has crafted its own internal framework to build LLM models.To read this article in full, please click here

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Cisco says this week’s layoffs were announced last November

20-07-2023 13:34

Networking giant Cisco Systems is laying off staff again, employees reported on social media this week. While the employees saw this as a fresh round of layoffs, Cisco said it was just enacting plans announced in November 2022. Cisco confirmed to ComputerWorld that there was a round of layoffs this week but said they were part of the 4,100 job cuts it had previously announced. "These recent notifications are part of the rebalancing effort we began in November 2022, which included a li

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Medical data sharing: Are we there yet?

20-07-2023 12:00

Fifteen years ago, if you entered an emergency room a thousand miles from home, the ER doctors would not have had access to potentially lifesaving information in your medical records, such as your allergies or a list of drugs you were taking. Only 10% of US hospitals had electronic health record (EHR) systems, and health record requests were typically sent in paper form by mail or fax machine. Then the federal government stepped in, providing billions of dollars in EHR incentives to help hospit

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A whole new kind of Android browser multitasking power

20-07-2023 12:00

By and large, wading your way around the web isn't exactly an inspiring process. You open up Chrome — or whatever browser you prefer on Android — and you pull up the site you want. Right?Okay, so sure: You can always use Android's system-level screen-splitting setup if you want to look at two tabs side-by-side or view another app at the same time. But let's be honest: For most common purposes, that isn't the most effective way to get work accomplished. Unless you're using the plus-s

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