Joel Lee

6 days ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

According to CNN, it’s now clear that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will donate an additional $100 billion to the Gates Foundation, which is now celebrating its 25th anniversary. Bill Gates intends to donate most of his fortune to the Gates Foundation in the coming years, with the explicit goal of not wanting to die a rich man. “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them,” said Gates.

6 days ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee

Microsoft has been bringing a number of new features to the Outlook email app lately. Just the other day, the tech giant announced that you’ll soon be able to switch freely between the new and classic Outlook apps, and now they’ve announced that soon you won’t need to be connected to the internet to manage your Outlook calendar.

6 days ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee

Call it a first-world problem if you want, but we’ve all been there: listening to our favorite songs so many times on repeat that we actually get sick of them, despite how much we once enjoyed them. Spotify is working on a solution to this very problem. The music streaming service announced yesterday that it has started testing a new feature that you can use when a song is played too often. It’s a 30-day snooze that temporarily removes the song in question from your recommended Spotify playlists.

6 days ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

Microsoft is currently testing a number of new features and experiences for Windows 11, ranging from agentic AI for PC management to an AI-driven “Fix it” button for troubleshooting to a new Start menu design with a useful phone companion panel. There’s actually a lot more coming, but here’s one that seems like a double-edged sword: Microsoft wants to make Microsoft Store apps downloadable in Windows Search.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Viktor Eriksson |Joel Lee

OpenAI, the company that develops ChatGPT, has decided to cancel its plans to transform the organization into a for-profit company. Instead, the non-profit organization that founded OpenAI will continue to run the business as before. The for-profit plans, announced in December 2024, were justified at the time by a need to secure sufficient capital to keep developing expensive artificial general intelligence (AGI).