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    Microsoft’s new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

    anand purohit/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI chatbots, an increasingly wide variety of […] More

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    Finally, a compact sports watch that competes with my Garmin in training guidance

    Polar Grit X2 <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Polar Grit X2 is available in Night Black for $800 The rugged MIL-spec build, vibrant AMOLED display, accurate location tracking, and advanced training tools make this a great watch for outdoor adventures Smartphone syncing is a manual process, the smartphone app is somewhat stagnant, and the watch […] More

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    Major Cloudflare outage takes down ChatGPT, Spotify, and X – here’s the latest

    Dem10 via iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A Cloudflare issue has taken many websites offline. Affected sites include X, ChatGPT, and more. The outages are eerily similar to ones earlier this year. It’s not just you, another internet outage […] More

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    The top 10 robot vacuums and mowers ZDNET readers bought in 2025

    Maria Diaz/ZDNETAs a smart home reviewer, I’m particularly fond of robot vacuums. I enjoy unboxing, setting up, and testing them, and I love seeing new technologies emerge each year. Even if robot vacuums look similar, each one is actually quite different, which means I’m constantly learning new things about these devices. We test dozens of robot vacuums each year at ZDNET, both in our lab and at home. As a result, I’m always writing reviews for different models and updating our choices for the best units you can buy. Also: The best Black Friday robot vacuum deals live nowNow, our team has compiled data on the top-selling robot vacuums across various retailers through 2025 so far. The following are listed in order of units sold through the links clicked from ZDNET stories. (A note: Your privacy is protected — we only have access to aggregate data from our user base, and there is no way for us to identify individual people’s purchases.) Here are ZDNET readers’ most-purchased robot vacuums this year so far (and several are on sale already for Black Friday). 
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    Cloud-native computing is poised to explode, thanks to AI inference work

    dem10/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The CNCF is bullish about cloud-native computing working hand in glove with AI. AI inference is the technology that will make hundreds of billions for cloud-native companies. New kinds of AI-first clouds, such as neoclouds, are already appearing. At KubeCon North […] More