Microsoft makes it easier to use pictures from your Android phone in Word or PowerPoint

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s rolling out a feature to Office Insiders that lets you insert images from your Android smartphones directly into a web-based Word or PowerPoint file. While Microsoft already offers ways to transfer content between Windows PCs and Android devices via the Phone Link app Microsoft revamped back in March, this marks the first…

Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3

Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. (credit: Meta AI) Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique could dramatically improve the sound quality of…