There are unanswered questions about the Nintendo Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch 2, which was launched earlier this year, has a bigger screen with a pair of Black and Pink and Blue Joy-Cons. The console also features a second USB-C port at the top. Nintendo has also released a video showing a new game called Mario Kart which is being developed by Kyoto-based Kyoto Game Studios.
John Deere is facing a lawsuit by the U.S
American farm equipment maker John Deere has said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not going to settle until it makes its software available for repair of its equipment. “Farmers should not give up on the FTC but they should do so in a timely way,” it added. This comes ahead of the FTC’s lawsuit against Deere, accusing it of unfair repair restrictions.
Copilot was resuscitated by Microsoft with free chat and agents
Microsoft has announced that it will raise the prices of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family by $3 per month in the US to allow for Office features to all subscribers. “We are raising the prices of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for the first time in 12 years,” General Manager Oystryk said. The new plans will be available for a year.
Before the backlash started, TikTok wasn’t even Banned
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance’s Chinese app Xiaohongshu has surged to the top of the charts on the country’s app store. “Started learning in Duolingo and from creators on Red Note [or Xiaohongshu],” an TikTok user wrote. China’s social media platform Instagram has also seen an increase in the number of Chinese users after TikTok’s shutdown.
October will be the last month for Microsoft to offer support for Windows 10 Office apps
Microsoft has said that when the support for Office apps ends in October this year, “the applications will continue to function as before” and there could be “performance and reliability issues over time.” This comes after Microsoft said at CES that refreshing an old Windows 10PC will be more important than buying a new TV or phone this year.
Sean Duffy is the person Trump has picked to be his secretary of transportation
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Sean Duffy to be the country’s Secretary of Transportation, saying he’ll work “to reduce the red tape that slows critical infrastructure projects”. Duffy, a Republican congressman, also said that he’d work to “reduce the red tape that slows important infrastructure projects, ensuring funds are spent efficiently”. He’d served in the US Congress for 12 years.
The company doesn’t think that the decision to let drones fly in dangerous areas is political
DJI said that in 2024 it removed the built-in feature that interfered with the crash of the White House drone almost a decade ago, with warnings that the user could ignore. It further said that the ‘No Fly Zones’ were “missed opportunities, delayed operations, or unnecessary” and added that its No Fly Zones created “missed opportunities, delayed operations, or unnecessary”.
It is possible for MetaAI to translate a speech into dozens of languages
Researchers have used a semi-Supervised Learning technique to train their text-to-text translation model. The team of researchers collected around 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio before being pre- trained on the part of the model that is responsible for translation. They analysed whether the model over-represented one gender when translating gender-neutral phrases into gendered languages.
The Chinese app RedNote is flooding the American app TikTokkers
TikTok users in the US are flooding Chinese social media platform RedNote. As per reports, more than a fifth of RedNote’s total app downloads this month have come from the US, up from 2% in the same period in the previous year. “For so long, we couldn’t connect…now we finally can, and it feels so special,” a Chinese user said.
What to prepare for a TikTok ban in the US
Oracle, which provide cloud infrastructure to TikTok in the US, would likely also be required to stop hosting the app’s data, as per reports. “If anybody uses your service to access TikTok and you’re in violation…it’s $5,000 per person that does that,” Kate Ruane, director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said.