KCCI reporter Zane Satre saw at least three 250-foot towers snapped by tornadoes, leaving some buckled and on fire. The Des Moines Register reports more than 35,000 people are without power, and the National Weather Service has a tornado watch in effect across most of the state until 9PM CT.

As an engineer for DEC in 1965, Bell played a pivotal role in shrinking room-sized computer systems into minicomputers.

An $18,000 prototype Bell created inspired the compact PCs we enjoy today. Bell later started the Computer History Museum.

As promised, owners of older Pixels are starting to see Magic Editor features unlocked and free to use in Google Photos. Other Androids and iPhones will get them, too, but you’ll need a $9.99 Google One subscription to save more than 10 edits per month.

The editor lets you make complex photo adjustments automatically, such as removing people from scenes.

In a new video, game creator Masahiro Sakurai says all SSBU fighters have an online victory rate between 47.18 percent and 51.43 percent, giving them all about the same shot at winning.

And that one character you think is OP? Sakurai blames the online “echo chamber” for pushing the idea that some fighters are stronger or weaker than others.

This feature was available before Sonos sued Google but didn’t return when Google restored most software features following its victory last October.

But with Android 15 Beta 2, Pixel users will once again be able to control the volume of grouped speakers with the phone’s buttons from outside the app that’s casting.

As Google plugs AI into search, what happens to the web? Nilay Patel discussed that topic with Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week on the Decoder podcast. It quickly became a deeper discussion about the new AI Overviews results, but you can start with a small bite here.

Pew research found that more than a third of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible. 23 percent of news webpages have at least one broken link, and 54 percent of Wikipedia articles have at least one reference link going to a page that doesn’t exist anymore.

The feature uses AI to dub spoken content into the language of your choice.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just stepped onstage at Microsoft Build. He’s having a conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about what’s next for OpenAI and Microsoft’s big supercomputer plans.

Sal Khan, CEO of Khan Academy, is up onstage at Microsoft Build to talk about the nonprofit’s use of AI in education. Microsoft is partnering with the Khan Academy for AI-powered tutoring tools that will be free for all US educators as of today.

Microsoft’s new Team Copilot feature will allow the assistant to manage meeting agendas and notes, moderate lengthy team chats, or help assign tasks and track deadlines in Microsoft Planner. It’s part of a new wave of agent capabilities for Copilot that you can read more about right here.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Sam Altman will appear onstage at Build soon to “talk about what’s next” with Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. Will we hear about OpenAI’s search engine, powered partly by Bing? GPT-5? Vague promises of the AI future? Stay tuned.

Microsoft mentioned yesterday that in addition to all the Snapdragon-powered PCs announced, we would also see those AI PC experiences ship in computers powered by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia as well. Now Nvidia suggests it won’t be a long wait:

In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving gamers, creators, enthusiasts and developers increased performance to tackle demanding local AI workloads, along with Microsoft’s new Copilot+ features.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:

1) Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers?

2) In a world where we have ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on all that information?

Nadella is positioning this wave of AI as the answer to Microsoft’s dreams.

Netflix is gearing up for the finale of its post-apocalyptic series Sweet Tooth, and the first season 3 trailer reveals that fans can finally expect some answers to the show’s big questions. It starts streaming on June 6th.

The recently passed bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration contains a whole section on “advanced air mobility,” which is an industry term for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. According to The Air Current, the bill contains provisions that would make it much easier for first generation eVTOL operators like Joby, Archer, Supernal and Beta — all of which have been spending crazy money on lobbying in Washington — to launch commercial airtaxi operations.

Yeah, sure, Apple TV Plus is the go-to place for sci-fi. But it also has a very fun wine tasting drama. The good news is that more is on the way, as Apple just renewed Drops of God for a second season. The goal this time? “To uncover the origin of the world’s most wonderful wine.”

Fluid Framework 2.0 lets multiple people work together in Microsoft’s Notion-like Loop workspaces and turns Office document items like charts, tables, and lists into “Lego pieces” that can be edited in real time from any app.

Starting today, outside developers are getting preview access to the technology that gave Microsoft 365 apps a Google Workspace-like boost, stretching those abilities for collaboration even further.