The company’s amorphous mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice. Microsoft Microsoft introduced Mico in October 2025 to give an anthropomorphized face to voice conversations with its Copilot AI chatbot. It seems the poor little blob is already demoted after less than a year. The company has decided to remove Mico from the voice section of Copilot. Its new home will be the Learn Live hub, where it will continue to be a “tutor” for users. “Mico helped us discover warmth, expressiveness, and the way people want to talk with AI. These learnings shape Copilot in…
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The Season 4 premiere of Ted Lasso was Apple’s most popular TV premiere to date, according to Nielsen viewing data sent by Apple to Deadline. The show racked up 296.6 million minutes of viewing in the United States during the August 4-5 launch window. It beat the previous season premieres of Ted Lasso, as well as the premieres of Severance and Pluribus. On August 5 alone, the first episode was the most streamed program in the United States with over 200 million minutes watched. Season 4 premiered more than three years after the Season 3 finale aired, but the long…
Nine PBS, a PBS station in St. Louis, Mo., must have access to data lost when its provider went out of business, a judge ruled this week. Nine PBS, a PBS station in St. Louis, Missouri, sued data center company Iron Mountain in July for access to a 70-year-old archive of cultural artifacts, THE Denver Post reported. The station took legal action after Iron Mountain allegedly refused to hand over data it hosted on behalf of Nine PBS’s now-defunct cloud service provider Open Source Storage (OSS). Woozad has asked Nine PBS for comment on the decision. We will update this…
Diem.ph/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Buying gifts for the gamers in your life can be difficult. While there’s no shortage of games and accessories, it can be difficult to determine what the person you’re buying for will actually find useful. Some items are platform specific, while others, like headphones, depend on preference and are difficult for someone else to choose. Gift cards are a good option, especially if they’re buying digital (although there are plenty of reasons to buy physical games instead) or…
Don’t upgrade your Google plan yet! You may be using way more storage space than you need. Eza_Nanda/Shutterstock With the cost of SSDs and hard drives skyrocketing, more and more of us are relying on cloud storage to store the detritus of our digital lives. But even that doesn’t come cheap, and chewing it carelessly is much easier than you think. Even if you’re the type of person who closely monitors your file system, things can slip through the cracks in a way that’s difficult to detect. On Android, the default cloud backup option is the…
Apple has once again added a collection of classic movies to Apple TV that subscribers can now stream at no additional cost. Movies are located in a new “Great Movies Now on Apple TV” carousel inside the Apple TV app. So far, free titles are available to subscribers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with the exact selection differing by country. In the United States, 19 films are available: 21 rue du saut Arrival The aviator A beautiful spirit The Bourne identity Charlie’s Angels AND Forgetting Sarah Marshall missing girl Me, Robot Looper The Martian Mission Impossible:…
Agents allegedly used electronic databases to spy on family members and even provide information to drug traffickers. Images Tada/Shutterstock U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers allegedly misused electronic databases to spy on family members, attempt to secure appointments and even provide information to suspected drug traffickers, according to Freedom of Information Files (FOIA) viewed by Wired. Officers allegedly misused databases that could come from sources such as license plate readers, facial recognition and smartphone searches to violate the privacy of many people. The FOIA files, spanning from 2009 to 2022, show a number of disturbing…
José Adorno/BGR Satechi is launching an all-new version of its ChargeView collection with a 240W desktop charger option, bringing more power, ports and a real-time display that shows how each device has been charged. This product solves one of the most common problems with technology today: multiple devices to charge but not as many outlets available. Over the past few weeks, BGR has been testing this product to see if the Satechi 240W ChargeView hub delivers on its promises. Personally, I always have trouble finding power bricks capable of properly…
DenPhotos/Shutterstock One of the most convenient ways to back up your MacBook is to subscribe to iCloud. After all, every time you’re connected to Wi-Fi and your computer is plugged in, it automatically starts syncing everything. However, this also means that you have to rely on a subscription for as long as you want to back up your data. On the other hand, another solution is to rely on local backups so that you not only own your data, but also don’t have to depend on subscriptions, cloud servers, etc.…
Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock If you bought a TV in late 2003, you may have come across a familiar brand that seemed completely out of its usual territory: Dell. Yes, the undisputed king of desktop towers was suddenly selling LCD TVs. However, the venture was short-lived, as the company shut down production a few years later in 2007. What caused another huge change in direction for the Texas-based PC giant? The short answer is that Dell ultimately wanted to focus on computers and not TVs. At the time, Dell was virtually untouchable…