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What is Perplexity AI?
There comes a time in every professional's life when they have to choose a favorite AI assistant. I didn't…
How to create a Slack to-do list: 5 ways
I know the best approach to a calm, focused workday is to dive into my deepest work with as few distractions…
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year, the…
AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service
I’m proud to share that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic…
Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs
Every minute your deep learning container image spends downloading is a minute you pay for and a minute your…
Turn every order line item into a Zapier Tables record
Originally released July 28, 2026. A new customer just placed their first order, 12 products due out Friday.…
This tool can recover deleted AI chats from your phone – how it works
Yana Iskayeva/ Moment via Getty Images ZDNET’s key takeaways An experimental tool recovered deleted…
Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-authored with Khaled Thabit, Meriem Boughrara, and Mohamed Desouky from Property Finder. The…
Exowatt beats frontier models on accuracy with SageMaker serverless model customization
Exowatt builds modular, dispatchable solar systems that deliver reliable power for energy-intensive…
A fake TikTok shop is Surfshark’s most-blocked phishing scam – how to steer clear
ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Surfshark: Global phishing blocks rose 524% from April to September. A TikTok…
SurveyMonkey vs. Google Forms: Which should you use? [2026]
Google Forms and SurveyMonkey are leaders in their category for different reasons: one is a simple form tool…
What is Figma?
There's a chance that I may have once stretched the truth about my Figma proficiency only to have my skills…
Gmail vs. Apple Mail: Which should you use? [2026]
Gmail and Apple Mail are two of the most-used email apps, but there's a key distinction between them. While…
GPT-6.1 Terra
GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release…
Apple’s iOS 27.2 update offers major Siri AI upgrades, dual camera support for FaceTime
Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The new iOS 27.2 helps Siri AI better recall details from past chats.…
Fleet-wide computer vision lifecycle at the edge with SageMaker SDK v3
Fleet-wide computer vision model lifecycle management is a problem that shows up the moment a quality…
Groundhog Day for AI agents: Prompt caching patterns for using OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock
Every time you spin off your agent, it has to re-read its whole life story before performing an action.…
Build agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with CDK
This post builds enterprise agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with the AWS Cloud…
Github competitor Entire is live now – how the agent-first platform works
Entire ZDNET’s key takeaways Entire is a GitHub rival built around coding agents. The platform is designed…
Apple’s new OLED iPad Mini is the upgrade I’ve been waiting for – here’s why
Apple ZDNET’s key takeaways The new iPad Mini sports an OLED screen for higher quality and contrast. An…
webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox
Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay…
What is a cron job? And how to set it up with no-code
A new Culver's opened up in my neighborhood, and to say I'm stoked is putting it mildly. Although I live in…
17 landing page examples to help you increase conversions
Any time I publish a landing page, I'm immediately thinking about what I could do next to make it better. How…
Gemini Omni: What it is and how to use it
It feels like it was only last week when spotting an AI-generated video was easy peasy. All you had to do was…