August 8, 20230CommentsRoper Technologies, which makes engineering products for niche markets, acquires Syntellis, which sells enterprise performance management software, for $1.25B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsSamsung Galaxy Watch 6 review: better battery, slimmer bezels, Wear OS 4, and overall improvements, but few changes, pricier, and works best with Samsung phones (Victoria Song/The Verge)
August 8, 20230CommentsSources: Google and UMG are in early talks to license melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners (Financial Times)
August 8, 20230CommentsGoogle launches group E2E encryption for its Messages app and says RCS will now be turned on by default in Messages for both new and existing users (Abner Li/9to5Google)
August 8, 20230CommentsGoogle debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsDutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62 (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)