It was foreseeable for a long time. Microsoft has finally announced when it will pull the plug on Internet Explorer. The company will be retiring the IE 11 desktop app on June 15, 2022 for most versions of Windows 10. The move does not affect the Windows 10 long-term maintenance channel, which is used for … Read more
An artist’s conception shows Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite in orbit. (Telesat illustration) How will Pentagon planners deal with the streams of data expected to rain down from a constellation of satellites monitoring hotspots in orbit? Microsoft and Ball Aerospace have shown that the cloud can handle it – and not just handle it, but … Read more
AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai wants to make it even easier for its business users to record their meetings. Today, the company introduces Otter Assistant, a new feature that allows you to automatically join the Zoom meetings on your calendar, transcribe the conversations, and share the notes with other attendees. Although Otter.ai is already built … Read more
Two years ago, reports revealed that Amazon was making facial recognition software available for use by law enforcement agencies, despite questions about bias, privacy, and potentially life-destroying errors that could arise from it. A year ago Amazon announced a year-long moratorium on the use of its Rekognition platform, and now Reuters reports that Amazon has … Read more
(GeekWIre Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Bob Hunter didn’t need a pandemic, work-from-home mandates, or distance learning initiatives to understand the potential popularity of community broadband. He heard it from Kitsap County government officials every day. Hunter, the general manager of the Kitsap Public Utility District west of Seattle, sparked a wave of infrastructure improvements years … Read more
As cloud-native apps become more and more central to how businesses function, a startup founded by the developers of a popular open-source authorization management tool for cloud-native application environments is announcing some means to expand its commercialization efforts to expand the opportunity. Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, has raised $ 40 million in … Read more
As companies like Google prepare to welcome at least some of their workforce back to the office, Logitech is releasing a whiteboard camera that employees can use to collaborate with their external colleagues. The company’s new gadget, named Scribe, uses AI-enhanced software to make presenters transparent so that the presentation viewer can more easily see … Read more
The Amazon Go grocery store in Redmond, Washington is closing. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The news: According to GeekWire, Amazon is renaming its Amazon Go Grocery brand to “Amazon Fresh” and is closing its Amazon Go Grocery store in Redmond, Washington, near Microsoft headquarters. The other Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill … Read more
SpaceX successfully launched an additional 52 Starlink Internet broadband satellites into orbit on Saturday, less than a week after the last batch was shipped. A small satellite from the startup Capella Space and a Tyvak observation satellite also made a trip to the launch, which took off on Saturday evening from the Kennedy Space Center … Read more
After hints in iOS 14.6 beta code and Apple Music for Android and a deliberate test by the company, Apple has officially announced spatial audio with Dolby Atmos and lossless streaming. After all the hints and rumors, two new high quality music options are available through the streaming service. Best of all, Apple Music subscribers … Read more