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When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability announcement (ooh, exciting!) A handful of apps start to support the feature (ooh, intriguing!) Everyone forgets about the feature entirely and moves on (new shiny thing… Continuar leyendo 10 forgotten Android text selection shortcuts

Microsoft has ordered its staff in China to use iPhones for their work starting in September. The decision effectively bars the use of Android smartphones by the tech giant’s Chinese staffers, Bloomberg reports. The decision has more to do with standardising use of the Microsoft Authenticator and Identity Pass app among all personnel rather than security… Continuar leyendo Microsoft mandates Chinese staff to use iPhones, not Android

Facebook-parent Meta has been working on developing a new small language model (SLM) compatible with mobile devices with the aim of running on-device applications while mitigating energy consumption during model inferencing tasks, a paper published by company researchers showed.   To set the context, large language models (LLMs) have a lot more parameters. For instance,… Continuar leyendo Small is big: Meta bets on AI models for mobile devices

In a step that perhaps symbolizes the steady erosion of bridges between nations, Microsoft is ordering its staff in China to abandon Android phones to exclusively use iPhones.  The ban begins in September, when staff will be required to use iPhones for work — specifically for identity verification when logging into devices. Microsoft wants all… Continuar leyendo Microsoft employees must use Apple iPhones in China

Russia’s state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has forced Apple to stop offering Virtual Private Network (VPN) apps via the App Store in Russia as that nation continues to censor internal dissent. The regulator has already blocked access to dozens of VPNs in Russia, and Apple has now removed apps for 25 VPN services, including Proton VPN, Red Shield VPN,… Continuar leyendo Apple removes VPN apps in Russia; here’s what to do next

Excel’s Ribbon is great for finding everything you might ever want to do in a spreadsheet, particularly things you don’t do frequently, like managing and querying data connections or automatically grabbing geographic statistics from the internet and inserting them into cells. But if you’re looking to do things fast, you’ll find keyboard shortcuts far more… Continuar leyendo Handy Excel keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac

If IT leaders were in a statistical analysis class, many would be in a lot of trouble. If students were given a very low reliability element and told to pair it with another low reliability element, a good student would know that the error rate — the risk of bad data results — would get… Continuar leyendo AI managing AI that is monitoring AI: What could possibly go wrong?