Google Lens can now check prices and inventory when shopping in the real world
After building out Google Lens to help users shop online more easily, Google is now updating the product to help people shop when they’re in a physical store by offering…
Database startup Neo4j embraces AI to supercharge growth
To make AI possible, you need to create connections between vast quantities of data. That’s where tech like graph databases come into play. Graph databases handle fast-changing, interconnected data more…
Microsoft built a PC that can’t run local apps
Prefer to offload all your Windows tasks to the cloud? Microsoft may just have the compact, desk-bound computer for you. On Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024, the tech giant unveiled…
Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings
Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages. At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the…
Windows comes to the Meta Quest
If Windows in mixed reality sounds like your idea of a good time, rejoice. Microsoft said on Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024 it’s bringing the “full capabilities” of Windows 11…
Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking and…
Microsoft beefs up Windows security with new recovery and patching features
In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances…
Microsoft brings together its enterprise AI offerings in the Azure AI Foundry
At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Azure AI Foundry, a new offering that brings together a number of Microsoft’s existing AI services for enterprises under a…
Microsoft and Atom Computing will launch a commercial quantum computer in 2025
Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, we’re still squarely in the so-called “noisy…
Spectro Cloud nets $75M to help companies manage their Kubernetes installations
Kubernetes, the open-source system that helps manage containerized applications (software packages that run in isolated environments), long ago breached the mainstream. According to one recent poll, 60% of organizations have…