Category: Software

Google has announced a major update to its chatbot, Bard, which can now communicate in 40 languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. The chatbot is now available in most countries worldwide, including Brazil and EU countries.

The ICQ app is no longer available on the Google Play app store. This indicates that its development for Android has been abandoned. So from now, the official version can only be found in Huawei's AppGallery. Its last update was released back on January 26, 2021.

Enthusiasts have created the Windows Update Restored website to provide updates for PCs running older versions of Windows, such as Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. The project aims to support users who, for some reason, still utilize these outdated operating systems from Microsoft.

Mozilla has launched the MDN Playground platform, allowing users to preview and share HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code snippets directly in the browser. It supports editing code, seeing real-time results, and features built-in support for the Prettier tool. MDN Playground is pretty similar to the CodePen community and offers free usage for developers.

The Dev Box cloud workstations have entered general availability. First introduced the Microsoft Build 2022 developer conference, the cloud workstations are now available to developers and corporate clients. The devices have undergone testing with repositories of significant size, ranging in the hundreds of gigabytes. Microsoft reported that the Dev Box is already being utilized by 10,000 engineers and multiple customers in production environments.

In ChatGPT, the GPT-4 model now allows using the Code Interpreter plugin. The plugin is capable to run Python code directly within the chatbot interface. It makes possible to perform data analysis, image processing, code editing, and more. It also supports file uploads within the chatbot interface with a limit of 100 MB.

Telegram messenger has updated its advertising platform and now collects the IP addresses of non-premium users for targeted advertising purposes. This allows advertisers to display ads in specific countries and cities.

Visual Studio Code has reached version 1.80 with its June 2023 update. VS Code is a free and open-source code editor from Microsoft. Typically for such tools, it comes with syntax highlighting, code completion, debugging capabilities, and Git integration. It also supports extensions that add extra features, more programming languages, and time-saving tools. VS Code is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

OpenAI has announced the general availability of its latest text generation model, GPT-4, through its API. Initially accessible to developers with a history of successful payments, OpenAI plans to open access to new developers and increase availability limits by the end of the month.

Microsoft has acknowledged that certain users may be encountering errors while using Outlook.com, particularly when attempting to search within emails. The issue seems to be isolated to the web version of Outlook.com and is not affecting mobile applications.