• McDonald's outage: Restaurants suffer global tech issue

    McDonald's stores across parts of the world were either closed or had suspended online orders Friday after what the company said was a technology outage. The unspecified issue affected the fast food chain's stores in Japan and Australia, while social media users also reported disruption in China, Britain and elsewhere across Asia and Europe. “We are aware of a technology outage, which impacted our restaurants; the issue is now being resolved. We thank customers for their patience and apologize...

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    McDonald's suffers global tech outage forcing some restaurants to halt operations

    McDonald's suffered a system failure on Friday that left many customers in many parts of the world unable to order food.

  • ‘Another one’ & another & another

    After sending out my column “Presumed Guilty Until You Settle,” our Opinion section editor Doreen Yu sent a message and titled it “another one.”

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    Microsoft Teams Insider members can check out a UI refresh for personal desktop Team users

    Members of the Microsoft Teams Insider program can check out a preview version right now of a new and upcoming user interface refresh of the Windows 11 Teams desktop app for personal use.

  • Microsoft is bringing more Copilot smarts to Teams

    Microsoft is continuing on its mission to inject AI into more of its products and features. For one thing, Copilot is coming to more parts of Teams in the coming months, including the meeting chat and the chat compose box. The AI will soon be able to offer you insights and information from the meeting chat and the transcript, so if something was either written or spoken, Copilot will be able to pull from it. Microsoft says that when you open Copilot in a meeting chat, you’ll have a “more...

  • McDonald's Closes Amid Global IT Outage

    McDonald's restaurants across Australia have been forced to temporarily close, and other branches around the world have reported a widespread technological issue which means customers cannot pay for food.Internal systems in Australian restaurants have been offline since about 3:10 p.m. local time, according to a report by News.com.au.IT issues have also been reported online in China including Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Germany.What We KnowA spokesperson from McDonald's...

  • Microsoft merges its Windows and Surface teams under one leader

    Microsoft is bringing together its Windows experiences and its Windows devices teams to form one division, and it has appointed company veteran Pavan Davuluri with the task of leading it. As The Verge notes, Davuluri has been serving as head of the Surface team since last year, after Microsoft split up Windows experiences and devices following Panos Panay's departure. The company is expanding his role again after another departure, this time of former Windows experiences lead Mikhail Parakhin,...

  • Google, Microsoft and Nucor team up on clean energy development

    North American steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation and US tech giants Google and Microsoft Corporation are to work together across the electricity ecosystem to develop new business models and aggregate their demand for advanced clean electricity technologies, including advanced nuclear.

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    Microsoft and Nvidia team up to improve Gen AI for enterprises

    Microsoft and Nvidia have expanded their collaboration to improve their generative AI offerings for enterprises including healthcare and life science organizations. The announcement was made at GTC.

  • McMeltdown: McDonald's hit by global IT outage, restaurants impacted

    Their computer system was Mc-Done-alds. McDonald’s restaurants around the globe were forced to suspend online orders following a computer system failure that impacted outlets in the United St

  • Microsoft Teams to introduce intelligent message translation in chats

    Microsoft has announced a new feature for Microsoft Teams that will provide intelligent message translation within chats. This functionality can improve communication by helping users understand messages in different languages. When a user receives a message in a language other than their preferred language, a translation will be suggested to them for better understanding. Users […]

  • Microsoft Teams to bring walkie-talkie functionality on iPhones

    Microsoft has announced on their Microsoft 365 Roadmap that Teams Walkie-Talkie on iOS will soon integrate with Apple’s Push-to-Talk framework. As the name suggests, Apple’s PTT framework is a tool for developers to create walkie-talkie-style features within their apps. Microsoft Teams Walkie-Talkie is a PTT feature that offers instant and secure voice communication, allowing users […]