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With all the time employees spend in UC and collaboration platforms these days, it’s kind of surprising that meeting culture doesn’t always get much attention. Leaders occasionally think about how meetings are scheduled and managed, but it’s rare for anything to go beyond surface level. That’s a pretty big problem when you think about the […]

Unified Communications has quietly become one of the most business-critical systems in the enterprise. Voice calls, video conferencing, messaging, and file sharing now sit at the heart of how work gets done. The problem? That same convenience makes UC environments an increasingly attractive target for attackers.  For IT leaders managing mature UC stacks, security isn’t about ticking […]

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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. In the final weeks of 2025, the battle over regulating artificial intelligence in the US reached a boiling point. On December 11, after Congress failed twice…

Philips Hue usually releases updates for its app every two weeks. We had to wait much longer over the New Year, but now the next update is finally here. The Philips Hue app has jumped from version 5.57.0 to version 5.59.0. ‘Various bug fixes and stability improvements,’ the development team tells us in the update…

Der Beitrag The first Philips Hue update of the year is here erschien zuerst auf Hueblog.com.

There’s a sort of love-hate relationship building between employees and their emerging machine colleagues these days. On the one hand, the rapid introduction of bot workers is causing serious headaches for teams. Psychological safety is dissolving, and human stress is increasing as people struggle to keep up with their algorithmic associates. On the other hand, […]

In the old world, “pricing” was a thing you could point at. A phone system cost this much. A contact center seat cost that much. A migration cost whatever your patience could tolerate, multiplied by an hourly rate and a vague apology. Now we’re pricing work performed by systems that don’t clock in, don’t ask […]

After years of back and forth, TikTok will remain available to U.S. users, with parent ByteDance holding onto a nearly 20% stake in the app.

The tags would bring X more into line with other social app disclosure features. 

Walkabout Mini Golf laid off some workers and announced a price increase for future DLC.

Cardiac research and artificial intelligence were the main science topics for the Expedition 74 crew on Friday. The International Space Station also received an orbital boost when the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft fired its engines at the end of the week.

The Expedition 74 trio aboard the International Space Station checked out ultrasound gear, inspected advanced sample processing hardware, and tested muscle-stimulating electrodes on Thursday.

For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker “Dr. Google.” But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. According to OpenAI, 230 million people ask…

This story first appeared in The Debrief, our subscriber-only newsletter about the biggest news in tech by Mat Honan, Editor in Chief. Subscribe to read the next edition as soon as it lands. It’s supposed to be frigid in Davos this time of year. Part of the charm is seeing the world’s elite tromp through the…

Global CIOs have spent much of the last decade consolidating infrastructure. The goal was to flatten the stack: one directory, one security perimeter, and one contract for the entire multinational workforce. In 2026, they are spending millions to take it all apart. A collision between aggressive US protectionism and entrenched European data sovereignty has forced […]