AI-Smart Flowy Automates Accessibility Fixes To Make Websites Usable for All

ChatGPT-powered Flowy might be a game changer for innovative developers looking to improve website accessibility. Israel-based Equally.ai, a provider of web accessibility solutions, announced the release of Flowy last month. Ran Ronen, the company’s co-founder and CEO, believes that accessibility should be fundamental to every web product. He designed the new platform to help developers…

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Distributed Workforces and the Human Cloud, Tech’s Recession Busters

Many companies face an arduous balancing act at the start of 2023 between an uncertain economic climate and the critical advantage they must maintain for competitive innovation. New technologies from Web3, blockchain, machine learning, and artificial intelligence continue to evolve work ethics that make that task more challenging. Cory Hymel, vice president of product at…

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Intel Unison Is Still a Work in Progress

The inability to share data easily and reliably between a smartphone, laptop, or desktop has been a source of aggravation for Windows PC users who also possess an iPhone. Apple has solidified a strong ecosystem reputation with its products and core device operating systems by highlighting the advantages of enabling files, text messages, and even…

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Microsoft Bumps Up Limits on Bing AI Chat Turns

Less than a week after it imposed search limits on the AI version of its Bing search engine, Microsoft is raising those limits. In the wake of some embarrassing reports of erratic behavior by the new Bing, Microsoft decided last Friday to limit a user’s daily usage to five chat “turns” per session and 50…

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Tips To Help Mask Your Identity Online

Digital crooks — whom cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials politely call bad actors — use elements of modern-day cyber communications to track your online activities. These elements are hiding in plain sight, but they are easy to reveal once you know where to find them. You can toss around false clues to hide your…

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Windows 365 and the Coming Abyss in the PC Market

Personal computer sales recently began to slow down to levels not seen since early 2020, before the pandemic turbocharged the PC space. By all estimates, PC manufacturers are battening down the hatch for yet another challenging year after shipments fell markedly in 2022. The pandemic-fueled sugar high of PC shipments that the industry saw in…

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Excess Exuberance, Not ‘Bossism’ Behind Rash of Tech Layoffs

Tech layoffs have been grabbing headlines recently, for good reason. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has laid off 12,000, about 12% of its workforce. Facebook’s parent Meta has chopped 11,000 workers from the rolls, and IBM slashed 3,900 employees, 1.5% of its global workforce. All told, 1,045 tech companies laid off 160,097 workers in 2022, and…

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