Microsoft has been adding AI features to Windows 11 for years, but things have recently entered a new phase, with both generative and so-called “agentic” AI features working their way deeper into the ...

Microsoft’s latest Insider build quietly enables an autonomous AI Agent running in a separate environment with persistent background activity, raising questions around performance, privacy, and ...

This is important because: This agent workspace is Microsoft’s template for how Windows 11 AI agents will actually run on your machine. Instead of pretending to be you, each helper gets its own ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

After years of relying on third-party tools, Windows is preparing to bring video wallpapers back as a built-in feature in Windows 11. Personally, I’ve always loved the idea of video wallpapers, so ...

One of the main benefits of a YouTube Premium subscription is being able to play videos in the background, but at $14 per month, it becomes difficult to justify the cost, especially if you're not ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 introduces a background blur effect in the app drawer, keyguard, and other areas. Activating Battery Saver will disable the background blur effect. Background blur consumes more ...

There is a simple way to stop background apps on Android. Stopping app refresh is a great way to reduce battery usage and improve the performance of your Android phone. Background apps can be closed ...

After introducing Expressive Captions in December, the Live Caption panel on Pixel devices now offers a Background transparency setting. Previously, text was displayed against a solid background of ...

At this point in my internet life, I've been conditioned to just assume that everything I see is fundamentally "fake" in some way, either made up by some guy or computer generated in any number of ...