In context: Founded in December 2022 by Amazon (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and former geolocation giant TomTom, the Overture Maps Foundation aims to create a reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map dataset for third-party companies and developers. The project’s first “alpha” release
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How to Dictate Text in Microsoft Office
Why type documents the old-fashioned way in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote when you can dictate the text instead? Whether you have a disability, or medical condition, or are looking to save time, Microsoft’s Dictate tool can help you
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Huawei wants to jump back into the global 5G phone race
Why it matters: Huawei is one of the companies that have seen an outsized impact as a result of the US-China trade war. However, the company has a plan to renter the global 5G smartphone race by developing chipmaking tools and
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How to Upgrade Your SSD (and Retain All Data)
If you’ve been using an SSD for booting Windows on your PC, it may be reaching its capacity limit, or perhaps showing signs of wear, depending on its age. Installing a new drive and a fresh copy of the operating
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Hackers are exploiting Windows loophole to load malicious drivers
Why it matters: Hackers have been exploiting vulnerable drivers for years, and Microsoft can’t easily fix the underlying issue without angering some of its paying customers who are using older software. Over the past few years, a Windows policy loophole allowed
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Google Pixel Fold Review
While Google has been developing Android for foldable phones for years, the $1,799 Pixel Fold is the company’s first foray into the market. The Pixel Fold opens and closes like a book, just like its closest competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Z
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Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare. Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order
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As Threads soars, Twitter rival Bluesky hits its first million installs
As Instagram’s new Twitter rival Threads soars into the double-digit millions after launching on Wednesday, another Twitter alternative, Bluesky, has hit a milestone of its own. According to a new analysis from app store intelligence provider data.ai, Bluesky has now topped a million downloads
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Apple iPhone 15: What to Expect
For the past five years, Apple has consistently unveiled its iPhone lineup in the fall, with four out of those five introductions taking place in September. This yearly tradition gets plenty of people excited as they anticipate what new features
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Google’s policy update confirms that all your posted content will be utilized for AI training
A hot potato: If you were in any doubt that the content you post publicly online will be fed to AI models, take a look at Google’s updated privacy policy. The document now explicitly states that the company reserves the right
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