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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Anthropic is expanding its Claude AI beyond the web. On Thursday, the company unveiled new desktop applications for its popular chatbot. Designed for Windows and MacOS, the new apps work similarly to the website and are available for free users and paid subscribers. To grab the apps, head to the Claude for Desktop site, where you’ll find versions for Windows, Windows on ARM, and MacOS. For now, the apps are tagged…

“At the same time, you want to get to the position that you can connect your quantum sensors together and essentially bring in things like IoT and other sensor devices and connect them using a network, not only to get the benefit of better sensing and accuracy but also to have a distributed sensing in terms of the coverage area,” Nejabati said. The idea is to not make customers reinstall a new type of network…

MicroStockHub/Getty Images OpenAI’s flagship product ChatGPT‘s advanced natural language processing (NLP) allows you to understand your prompt no matter how you word it, making it easy to learn more about a topic. However, its knowledge cutoff, the date of which varies based on the model you’re using, has made it problematic to use as a search engine — until today.  Also: OpenAI plans to offer its 250 million ChaptGPT users even more services On Thursday,…

On the page that announced details of the ESU program for commercial customers, a Microsoft spokesperson wrote that details and prices for consumers “will be shared at a later date” on the company’s consumer end-of-support page. Six months later, those details are finally available. Also: The best Windows laptop you can buy Consumers will be able to sign up for a one-year ESU subscription for $30. That’s roughly half what businesses will pay for that first year….

Amazon/ZDNET Black Friday is still a few weeks away, but you can already snag savings on some flagship Amazon products, including several models of the Fire TV Stick.  The Amazon Fire TV Stick is a streaming device that transforms your TV into a smart one by letting you access your favorite TV shows and movies from top services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney+, and Amazon Prime in one place on a crisp, easy-to-navigate platform….

Prompt: Red panda in the wild holding a lime t-sign that reads “ZDNET” Generated via Recraft by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET It’s been a while since a new text-to-image generator shook up the generative AI space. However, the mysterious Red Panda generator has done just that, climbing up Artificial Analysis’s Text-to-Image Arena leaderboards and beating out leading models. Now, the identity has been revealed.  Also: The best AI image generators: Tested and reviewed On Wednesday, Recraft launched its newest…

Prompt: Red panda in the wild holding a lime t-sign that reads “ZDNET” Generated via Recraft by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET It’s been a while since a new text-to-image generator shook up the generative AI space. However, the mysterious Red Panda generator has done just that, climbing up Artificial Analysis’s Text-to-Image Arena leaderboards and beating out leading models. Now, the identity has been revealed.  Also: The best AI image generators: Tested and reviewed On Wednesday, Recraft launched its newest…

Need Microsoft Office, but don’t want to pay a yearly subscription to Office 365? Consider this deal on the latest Office Home & Business 2024 suite for Mac or PC from Stack Social for $160 (reg. $250) — that’s 36% off. The suite includes lifetime access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.  Office 2024 features several improvements over the 2021 version, including AI integration, better performance and speed (particularly in Excel), more advanced…

It may still be fall, but early Black Friday sales and holiday savings are already hitting retailers, both online and in-store. The month of November is a great time to snag seasonal savings on top tech products, including popular Apple watches. And although Apple products don’t frequently see savings, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and other holiday sales will be a great chance to save between 10-20% on select devices. Last year, we saw the first major…

The holiday shopping season will be here before we know it, and you may already be looking to find the best deals on gifts and gadgets that won’t empty your wallet. If you want to stick to a strict budget this year, don’t worry — you can find some very useful tech products and other gadgets for under $25 that make great gifts, even before the Black Friday shopping weekend begins. Also: Black Friday 2024: Everything…