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Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
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Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store, with full PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, and more, for $9.99 per month and a 30-day free trial — Adobe has finally released the first version of Photoshop for iPad. The update is available as a 30-day trial …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Adobe says it is developing Illustrator for iPad, which will include the core tools alongside new tools made for touch, to be released by the end of 2020 — The long-awaited Photoshop for iPad is available to download today, and to keep the momentum going, Adobe is announcing that it's … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to be generally available on Jan. 15, with new privacy features including InPrivate browsing and tracking prevention — After launching a beta test for the new Chromium Edge in September, Microsoft is now gearing up to officially launch the browser on January 15th, 2020.
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Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces “Project Cortex,” a knowledge-management service, the first major new Office 365 cloud service that it has introduced since Teams in 2017 — Microsoft is adding a new, Microsoft-Graph-powered knowledge-management service to Office 365. Here's what ‘Project Cortex’ is and how it will work.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Project Cortex, a new Office 365 service for knowledge management that uses machine learning to classify documents into topics and collections — At its annual Ignite IT conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft today announced Project Cortex, its first new commercial product since the launch of Teams.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a new Office app for iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single download and with a new logo — Its new mobile app is a central hub for all things Office — Microsoft is unveiling a new Office app for iOS and Android today.
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MacRumors, PCWorld, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Engadget, Windows Central, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, and MSPoweruser
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots — Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots that's part of the company's Power Platform …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to add new features to Teams, including Outlook and Yammer integrations, pinned channels, private channels, polls, tasks, surveys, and more — New files, pinned and private channels, and Yammer integration — Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its Teams client today.
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Windows Central, GeekWire, and TechCrunch
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Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content — As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off — Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …
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