five-years-later,-you-can-finally-buy-google-beam

It’s been five years since Google first offered a glimpse of Project Starline, a three-dimensional videoconferencing platform billed at the time as as a “magic window” that enables realistic and immersive calls. On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Beam — as the software element of the product is now called —Continue Reading

microsoft-adds-pay-as-you-go-pricing-for-extra-onedrive-storage

Microsoft has added a “pay-as-you-go” option for OneDrive storage, providing an additional way for Microsoft 365 commercial customers to buy extra cloud storage capacity for users. Previously, increasing storage capacity for OneDrive users meant purchasing capacity “packs” for individual accounts, available in 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB through 6TB sizes. WithContinue Reading

openkylin-3.0-release-makes-it-a-“ai-first”-linux-desktop

openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release in the form of openKylin 3.0 that bringsContinue Reading

want-to-try-ubuntu’s-ai-dictation-feature?-here’s-how

Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA.Continue Reading

ai-spend-will-jump-49.5%-in-2026,-says-gartner

Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast. But there’s been no diversion of money from other areas of IT to feed AI,Continue Reading

echion-signs-mou-with-energy-tech-solution-to-develop-xno-niobium-anode-battery-cells

Anode material developer Echion Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korean battery equipment maker Energy Tech Solution (ETS) to develop battery technology based on Echion’s XNO niobium-based anode material. ETS is the first total battery solution provider in Echion’s partner network, and it will cover productionContinue Reading