Gemini is getting a bit more useful today. Google has begun rolling out an update that gives its chatbot the ability to generate files directly from the prompt bar. To use the new feature, all you ...

You can now ask the Gemini app to directly generate “downloadable and ready-to-share files.” Google wants you to “quickly move from a brainstorm to a complete ...

Microsoft is rolling out a useful feature for Office users this week. The company has introduced Agent Mode inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that ...

When somebody sends you a document as an attachment, don't just open it. Use the free tool Dangerzone to scrub it clean of any malevolent code. Here's how it works. You probably already know it's ...

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

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Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

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Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of ...