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Microsoft Edge Takes a Victory Lap With Some High-Looking Usage Stats For 2024(2024-12-25 18:00:07)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has published a year in review for its Edge browser and talked up AI-powered chats while lightly skipping over the software's stagnating market share. The company had some big numbers to share. There had been over 10 billion AI-powered chats with Copilo...
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Apple Is Not Losing Google's Billions Without a Fight(2024-12-25 15:00:05)

Apple may be worth one and a half Googles now, but the world's most valuable company needs its relationship with the world's largest search engine to keep clicking. From a report: Such was evident Monday when Apple filed papers seeking to participate in the penalty phase of the Justice Department's ...
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Bret Taylor Urges Rethink of Software Development as AI Reshapes Industry(2024-12-25 12:00:07)

Software development is entering an "autopilot era" with AI coding assistants, but the industry needs to prepare for full autonomy, argues former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Drawing parallels with self-driving cars, he suggests the role of software engineers will evolve from code authors to opera...
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In Maine, Remote Work Gives Prisoners a Lifeline(2024-12-25 09:00:03)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Boston Globe: Every weekday morning at 8:30, Preston Thorpe makes himself a cup of instant coffee and opens his laptop to find the coding tasks awaiting his seven-person team at Unlocked Labs. Like many remote workers, Thorpe, the nonprofit's principal en...
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Critics, Not Fans, Perpetuate the Failed Second Album Myth, Study Shows(2024-12-25 06:00:06)

A new study reveals that the widely accepted "sophomore slump" phenomenon -- where a band's second album is perceived as significantly worse than the first -- exists primarily in professional critics' reviews, not fan ratings. Researchers suggest this bias stems from social conformity among critics,...
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