“We noticed that people were spending too much time building presentations, too much time on slides, and they weren’t having the impact that they wanted,” Shawn Villaron, PowerPoint Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft, said in a video briefing. “So we started with a hypothesis that we could actually do better — we could use artificial intelligence to find ways to make it easier for people to make highly impactful, highly effective presentations....

Homeaudio speakershave come a long way from their reliance on components and amplifiers and cables to drive the various sounds we rely on them for. The emergence of compact all-in-one speaker setups that do everything — from built-in amplification andmusic streaming servicesto wireless and physical connectivity for just about anything — is on the rise, and Canadian loudspeaker makers PSB have just added their contribution, announcing the launch of the Alpha iQ Streaming Powered Speakers....

Samsung is apparently gearing up to share its newestsmartwatch OSat virtual Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week, and new leaks may have given us a look at the hardware. High-quality renders purport to show off the upcoming Galaxy Watch Active 4, a sleek wearable that’s slated to follow up theGalaxy Watch Active 2. Therenderswere shared by veteran leaker Steve H.McFly, known as OnLeaks, on Wednesday. When compared to its predecessor, the Galaxy Watch Active 4 has a streamlined look that takes the best parts of the older watch and modernizes them....

SpaceX has called off the launch of the highly anticipated Polaris Dawn mission for the second day in a row, but this time it has not set a new schedule. In a messageposted on social mediaon Tuesday evening about five hours before a Falcon 9 rocket carrying four passengers was due to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the spaceflight company said it had made the decision due to a weather forecast that suggested there will be unfavourable conditions off the coast of Florida in five days’ time, when the Crew Dragon spacecraft was due to splash down....

An image of the NGC 5353/4 galaxy group made with a telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona on August 23, 2025. The diagonal lines running across the image are trails of reflected light left by more than 25 of the 60 recently launched Starlink satellites as they passed through the telescope’s field of view.Victoria Girgis/Lowell Observatory SpaceX launched its first set of 60 satelliteslast month, and astronomers havealready raised concernsabout the effect these and similar launches could have on our ability to view the stars....

SpaceX has shared a video showing its next-generation spaceflight vehicle being stacked on the launchpad ahead of its first test flight. The footage (below) shows the Starship spacecraft being placed atop the mighty Super Heavy booster at SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Ship 24 stacked on Super Heavy Booster 7 at Starbase in Texaspic.twitter.com/hLcghfq349 — SpaceX (@SpaceX)July 31, 2025 The test flighthas faced a number of delays, but SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Sunday that it could take place as soon as next month....

Summary Starfieldhas revealed the first trailer for itsShattered SpaceDLC. The first trailer premiered at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, part of Summer Game Fest weekend. While it doesn’t have an official release date yet, it’s expected out sometime this year - most likely during the fall. Shattered Spacebrings a horror element toStarfield. It appears to begin with players investigating a distress call from an abandoned space station, where they’ll surely uncover an intergalactic mystery that takes them to new, unexplored corners of space....

Earlier this week, Epic Games and Deep Silver announced a deal to makeMetroExodus, the third game in the post-apocalyptic shooter series, atimed exclusive for the upstart Epic Games storeon PC. As Exodus was just a couple weeks from launch and had been available for pre-order on Steam for many months, some Steam users aren’t too happy about that last-minute change. Now the most passionate of fans have started givingMetro 2033 ReduxandMetro: Last Light Reduxnegative reviews on Steam....

Summary Stranger Thingsseason 5 poster art imagines Will becoming the show’s real villain. The hit Netflix fantasy horror series created by the Duffer Brothers returned for season 4 in 2022, chronicling Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) fight against Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers has played a crucial role throughout all seasons of the series thus far, and he’s set to return – alongside most other characters – inStranger Thingsseason 5, which will serve as the show’s conclusion....

Summit1G mocks Valve’s Deadlock as “worse than Overwatch” Twitch streamer summit1g did not mince words about Valve’s new shooter, Deadlock, calling it “worse than Overwatch” – another game he’s not a particular fan of. Deadlock, currently in development by Valve, has been generating quite the buzz. It’s an action game that mashes up hero shooters, MOBAs, and third-person shooters, all in a unique, BioShock Infinite-inspired aesthetic. Despite still being in the early stages, it drew over10,000 concurrent players during testing....

For the first time in PCMag’s 12 years of testing mobile networks in the United States, T-Mobile has been named thefastest mobile network. With average download speeds of 162.3Mbps, T-Mobile greatly outperformed the competition in most cities. After years of lagging behind, how did T-Mobile turn it around? Investing in C-band In the race to provide5G service, the major carriers pursued different strategies. Verizon and AT&T expanded their use ofmmWave, a band of spectrum that provides high speeds but doesn’t travel far....

Your city is dumb. The potholed streets, coin-operated parking meters, and drafty brick buildings many of us interact with every day haven’t changed much in a century.But it’s finally happening.FromOslotoSan Diego, cities across the globe are installing technology to gather data in the hopes of saving money, becoming cleaner, reducing traffic, and improving urban life. In Digital Trends’ Smart Cities series, we’ll examine how smart cities deal with everything from energy management, to disaster preparedness, to public safety, and what it all means for you....

Since HP’s TouchPad firesale brought prices on the tablet down as low as $99, a number of you have picked one up, and so have we. Since HP chose to use its own proprietary webOS operating system, not all of your favorite apps may be here, but fear not. We’re here to help. There are a number of great apps specifically built for the TouchPad, perhaps more than Android tablets currently offer....