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Google’s Gemini has taken a decisive step toward making personal work data an active participant in AI research workflows, extending the Deep Research capability so the assistant can read and synthesize content directly from Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat to produce context-rich research reports and briefs. This expansion—rolled out in early November 2025 and reported widely across tech outlets—lets Gemini combine private workspace content with public web sources to build timelines...

Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) has quietly begun a measured experiment with a ChatGPT-based assistant called CLIKChat, putting roughly 300 staff in its claims and benefits teams through a proof‑of‑concept to test whether generative AI can make policy lookup, claims triage and customer-facing conversations smoother and faster. The department says the tool is for internal use only, does not access veteran records or personal data, and will not make decisions — a human...

Netflix says its ad-supported offering now reaches more than 190 million monthly active viewers (MAVs), and the company is rolling new ad technologies — including dynamic ad insertion for live events — into a broader international footprint as it pushes to scale advertising alongside subscriptions. Background Netflix introduced an ad-supported subscription tier in late 2022 as a deliberate move to diversify revenue beyond subscriptions, and the business has been iterating quickly ever since...

The Delhi High Court’s sharp rebuke of Patanjali’s recent Chyawanprash commercial—where the ad reportedly labels competing products as “dhoka” (fraud)—has turned what looked like a routine advertising spat into a high‑stakes legal and reputational contest between two of India’s most prominent Ayurvedic brands. Background Patanjali’s 25‑second commercial, fronted by Baba Ramdev, promotes “Patanjali Special Chyawanprash” with an emphatic claim of being the original and the true power of...

Microsoft is quietly moving the Phone Link app’s built-in photo gallery into File Explorer, replacing the in‑app viewer with a File Explorer–based experience and prompting users to switch to the Mobile Devices/File Explorer flow instead. Background Phone Link (formerly Your Phone) has been one of Windows 11’s most useful cross‑device continuity tools: it mirrors notifications, exposes messages and calls, lets you mirror Android apps in a window, and — until now — included a simple gallery...

Workday’s move to add a Custom AI Model Library to its Contract Intelligence Agent — a collection of more than 120 pre-built, domain-focused models powered by Evisort — signals a clear shift from generic automation toward specialized, deployable contract intelligence that legal, HR, finance, and procurement teams can use immediately to speed review, surface risk, and extract business-critical terms. The announcement frames this as a plug‑and‑play expansion of Workday Contract Lifecycle...

Sharad Agarwal’s arrival as Tesla’s new India head marks a clear pivot from remote oversight to a locally led, luxury-focused push — a strategic recalibration designed to convert curiosity into purchases in a market where high import duties, limited charging infrastructure and entrenched domestic rivals have so far blunted Tesla’s opening momentum. Background / Overview Tesla entered India in mid‑2025 with showrooms and Model Y deliveries, but the launch produced modest order volumes...

Duroflex’s latest move — a full visual and strategic refresh under the banner “Designed to De‑Stress” — recasts the six‑decade mattress maker from a sleep‑innovation company into an explicit wellbeing brand focused on stress relief through restorative sleep. Background Duroflex Limited, a long‑standing Indian sleep and comfort solutions company, announced a refreshed brand identity and positioning in early November 2025 that centers stress reduction as its primary consumer promise. The...

Glow's latest release, version 25.15, lands as a compact, performance-focused refresh that rethinks the app's look, shrinks its footprint dramatically, and adds a novel hardware integrity tool aimed squarely at technicians and anyone who needs rock-solid evidence of component changes. Background Glow is a portable system-analysis utility for Windows that collects and presents detailed hardware and software information in a single, searchable interface. The tool is developed by Eray Türkay...

Sword of Justice’s global rollout has arrived: NetEase and ZhuRong Studio will open servers worldwide on November 7, 2025, with preloads already live and character pre‑creation open ahead of launch — and the package being offered is notable for being entirely free‑to‑play, full cross‑platform between PC and mobile, and loaded with free pre‑registration rewards designed to get players into the world of Wuxia from day one. Background / Overview NetEase’s open‑world Wuxia MMORPG, Sword of...

KDE Discover brings an app-store-style, graphical method for finding, installing, updating, and removing Linux software to desktops that otherwise rely on package managers and terminals, and installing it on Raspberry Pi OS “Trixie” demonstrates just how friendly Linux software management can be for newcomers. The Tom’s Hardware how‑to walks through the simple steps to add Discover to a Debian‑based Raspberry Pi system, explains the Discover user interface, and argues the tool is an...

When Microsoft’s updated Windows Camera app added a simple turtle icon for slow‑motion capture, it marked a small but meaningful victory for Windows Phone users: the Lumia 930, Lumia 1520 and Icon could now record at 720p, 120 frames per second, and the phone did the heavy lifting to output a ready‑to‑share slow‑motion clip. Background The mid‑2010s were a turning point for smartphone camera features. Manufacturers were racing to add higher frame‑rate capture modes, computational tweaks and...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows can now reach beyond the Microsoft ecosystem—if you opt in—and search your OneDrive and Outlook alongside Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, while also letting you export chat outputs directly into editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files in one click. Background / Overview Copilot’s new Connectors feature is an opt‑in capability added to the Copilot app for Windows that links the assistant to selected personal cloud accounts so a...

Bill Gates’ off‑hand quip—“That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet”—did more than defuse an embarrassing on‑stage moment; it helped redraw how Microsoft and the wider industry approach live demos, hardware compatibility, and presentation engineering. A plug‑and‑play scanner that hadn’t been vetted by the Windows team triggered a kernel crash during a high‑profile Windows 98 demonstration at COMDEX, producing one of the most famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) moments in tech lore...

Ayaneo’s Next II has re-emerged as a deliberately ambitious flagship: the company’s latest redesign teases high-end controls, an 8‑inch (or larger) premium display, and internal engineering aimed at housing AMD’s most powerful mobile APUs — all while the firm continues to withhold firm pricing and a ship date. Early details show TMR-style joysticks, Hall‑effect triggers, an 8‑way floating D‑pad, dual trackpads and what Ayaneo calls a “customised top‑tier screen”, positioning the Next II as a...

Microsoft’s PowerToys gives you a built‑in, officially supported way to add an onscreen crosshair to your Windows desktop — no shady downloads required — and it’s already the simplest and safest option for multi‑monitor setups, accessibility needs, or games that don’t let you customize the reticle. Background Microsoft PowerToys is an official, open‑source collection of utilities maintained by Microsoft that acts as a “power‑user” toolbox for Windows. It’s distributed via the Microsoft...

Free, high-quality AI courses are no longer a niche perk — they’re a practical route to career resilience, whether you want to learn the basics, build prompt-engineered tools, or lead responsible AI projects inside an organization. Lifewire’s roundup of “14 Free AI Courses That Can Boost Your Skills and Career” compiles a useful starting library for learners at every level, but the list also raises important questions about what “free” really means, which credentials carry weight, and how to...

Square Enix has begun a major overseas restructuring that will cut hundreds of roles across its US and European operations while simultaneously accelerating the company’s push to adopt generative AI for game development—most notably a stated goal to automate up to 70% of QA and debugging tasks by the end of 2027—a move that shifts risk from organizational expense lines toward algorithmic automation and raises urgent questions about jobs, quality, and creative stewardship in the games...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise on the horizon — 2025 marked the shift from dazzling demos to operational AI, with multimodal reasoning, long-running agents, and platform-level governance becoming the central battlegrounds for vendors, enterprises, and regulators alike. Background / Overview The public conversation about AI in 2025 clustered around three enduring shifts: the move from single‑modal language models to multimodal systems that fuse text, images, audio and video...

Microsoft Teams has matured from a meetings-and-chat utility into a rich telemetry source that — when stitched to CRM, contact‑center, and finance systems — can be turned into measurable customer success outcomes and hard ROI rather than vanity adoption metrics. The shift is already underway: native tools (the Teams Admin Center and Call Quality Dashboard) provide the operational plumbing, Teams Premium’s Advanced Collaboration Analytics adds governance and external‑sharing visibility, and a...