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GWI’s Agent Spark launches as an “always‑on” insights agent that embeds the company’s proprietary survey data directly into popular conversational AI tools — promising analyst‑grade audience answers across 35 billion data points without leaving your chat window. Background GWI (formerly GlobalWebIndex) has built a large, survey‑based consumer dataset over the last decade and positioned itself as a provider of human‑grounded audience insight for marketers, product teams and analysts. The...

Windows 11’s “run Android apps on PC” promise has quietly narrowed: a recent roundup of five popular Android-first utilities highlights the kinds of phone-native experiences you still won’t find as native Windows apps, and the official path that made those experiences easy has now been wound down. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) to bring select Android apps to Windows 11 via the Amazon Appstore, creating the most straightforward bridge...

For owners of aging PCs and slow network links, swapping to a different browser can be the single most effective, zero‑cost way to restore responsiveness — a recent ZDNET roundup highlights six free browsers that consistently make old machines feel faster while still offering sensible security defaults. review Web browsers are often the heaviest, most active applications on a modern desktop. Open a handful of tabs and you’re running many separate processes, background scripts, trackers, and...

Microsoft says Windows Update will soon use significantly less local disk space — and for the millions of people running small SSDs or entry-level laptops, that's one of those changes that quietly fixes a real, everyday pain point. Background / Overview For years, Windows updates have behaved like cautious packrats: they download entire update packages or large temporary payloads, keep copies for rollback, and hold reserved storage to guarantee the next update can be applied. That behavior...

Windows 11’s promise of “run Android apps natively” has quietly narrowed into a set of communitypromises—and a recent roundup of Android-first utilities highlights just how many phone‑centric tools still have no faithful home on the desktop. A short list of mobile‑first apps — Textra SMS, BuzzKill Notification Manager, Podcast Republic, Hermit (Lite Apps Browser) and Web Video Cast — encapsulates the gap: they rely on Android OS hooks (SMS storage, notification controls, casting APIs...