Microsoft debuts Power Automate process advisor and new RPA features
IonQ’s roadmap: Quantum machine learning by 2023, broad quantum advantage by 2025
Google wants you to help build its Fuchsia operating system
NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit for $399
Microsoft unveils Azure Purview for data governance, Azure Synapse Analytics hits general availability
Microsoft Teams now supports Apple CarPlay, saves call recordings, and identifies spam calls
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ProBeat: Google will eventually sell ads against your financial data
Zapata raises $38 million for quantum machine learning
Chrome 87 brings tab throttling, Occlusion Tracking on Windows, back/forward cache on Android
Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode and faster performance
Microsoft expands Teams with meetings apps and low-code tools
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ProBeat: Google still needs you to label photos for its ML
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ProBeat: Net Applications will no longer track the browser wars
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ProBeat: Huawei sanctions are a win for Xiaomi, but a loss for the tech industry
Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue: AWS up 29%, subscriptions up 33%, and ‘other’ up 51%
Microsoft gives Excel cells a third dimension with Power BI data types
Microsoft Teams passes 115 million daily active users
Microsoft reports $35.7 billion in Q1 2021 revenue: Azure up 48%, Surface up 37%, and LinkedIn up 16%
Google updates Firebase with new emulator and data analysis tools
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ProBeat: PayPal will boost cryptocurrencies while undermining their ethos
Kite expands its AI code completions from 2 to 13 programming languages
Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 October 2020 Update with Chromium Edge
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ProBeat: Shame on tech companies that don’t give employees time off to vote
Apple cuts iPhone XR and iPhone 11 prices by $100, kills iPhone 11 Pro
Android Studio 4.1 simplifies using TensorFlow Lite models and Android Emulator
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ProBeat: Google should have picked Microsoft’s app store principles over Apple’s
Microsoft Edge gets free 24-hour video calls, screenshot tool, and shopping features
Chrome 86 brings password protections for Android and iOS, VP9 for macOS Big Sur
G Suite is now Google Workspace because ‘work is no longer a physical place’
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ProBeat: Toyota’s upside-down robot is innovative and impractical
Microsoft unveils Surface laptops to fulfill ‘PC for every single person’ vision
Chromecast with Google TV attempts to revive Android TV for the streaming wars
D-Wave’s 5,000-qubit quantum computing platform handles 1 million variables
Google’s Epic response: Android 12 will make it easier to install app stores
Microsoft is bringing Edge to Linux developers in October
Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation
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