Monthly Archives: October 2022

This Microsoft Outlook update wants to make sure you don’t forget to follow-up after a meeting

Microsoft Outlook is planning to make it easier to find meeting-critical documents, such as recordings, transcriptions, and minutes, from within the email client itself, without the need to cross over to other applications. The new feature, revealed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, will likely collate the AI-powered “intelligent recaps” delivered by Microsoft Teams Premium, the…

Google pressing RCS adoption with latest Messages update

Google is updating its Messages app by adding new organizing features and multimedia support in a new effort to push the RCS protocol. RCS (Rich Communication Service) is a communication standard that aims to replace the old SMS (Short Message Service) protocol.  The more modern standard allows for “richer text features,” higher quality content, and…

We got an early look at the $107,000 GMC Sierra EV, an electric pickup with 400 miles of range that’s coming in 2024

The 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1. Tim Levin/Insider GMC on Thursday revealed the Sierra EV, a high-end electric pickup truck coming in 2024.  The first models will be packed with features and cost $107,000 and up.   The Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 promises four-wheel steering, 400 miles of range, and 754 horsepower.  Car…

TikTok’s Chinese parent company reportedly intended to use the app to surveil specific Americans’ locations

Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images TikTok’s parent ByteDance planned to use the app to surveil specific Americans’ locations, Forbes reported. A China-based team intended to gather location data on at least two specific US users, per the report. The report is sure to raise more privacy and national-security concerns over TikTok. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of…

Putin declared martial law in occupied Ukraine, but it changes little and highlights his desperation, experts and officials say

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022. Getty Images Putin’s declaration of martial law in occupied Ukrainian territories is being decried as a symbolic, desperate move. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the martial law decree is “largely legal…

Nearly 600,000 people on LinkedIn listed Apple as their employer on one day in October. The next day, half the profiles disappeared as the platform cracks down on fake accounts.

In this photo illustration the logo of LinkedIn can be seen on a smartphone on March 10, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Last week, a developer who tracks LinkedIn spotted massive drops in people claiming to work at Apple and Amazon.  LinkedIn confirmed to Insider that the purge is part of…

Trump’s yearslong crusade against Ukraine has finally come home to roost as Republicans call for abandoning Kyiv

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images US aid to Ukraine could be in jeopardy if Republicans win the House in the midterms. Several GOP lawmakers and candidates have signaled they would support reducing or cutting off Ukraine aid. “Ukraine unfortunately has been hijacked sometimes in domestic politics….