When you install or run certain applications on Windows, you may see a prompt asking you to install the Windows Desktop Runtime. What is Windows Desktop Runtime? Why is it needed? Is it safe? Let’s ...

Meta’s new AI assistant app, Muse, is now available on Mac. On the Mac, Muse can interact with your files, messages, calendar, notes, and mail, all within their native applications. The new app ...

Together with the release of Hub 26 Summer, Nextcloud is expanding its collaboration platform with a dedicated desktop application for Euro-Office. Until now, the Office suite ran exclusively in the ...

Google has finally released a native Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11. This provides a streamlined way to use the AI tools on Windows PCs and follows a Mac release earlier this year. Once downloaded, ...

The Gemini desktop app is launched with an Alt + Space keyboard shortcut on Windows. As of today’s debut, Google touts instant Gemini access over whatever you’re currently doing: “Whether you need a ...

Microsoft has begun testing new privacy controls that will let Windows 11 users choose which desktop applications can access their camera, microphone, and precise location. This new feature is ...

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s one place where it’s been notably absent: the Linux community. Indeed, certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring ...

The Apache NetBeans team has just released NetBeans 31, the most recent version of the open-source, cross-platform IDE, with a number of improvements in Java development, Maven and Gradle integration, ...

Just a few months ago, I could barely get an AI agent to open the Chess app on my Mac, much less actually play a game of it. But after testing the all-new ChatGPT super-app, I can report that the days ...

Until now, Linux users had to make do with either the web interface or unofficial community packages that awkwardly ported the Windows version to Linux. That’s now a thing of the past. We took a look ...

The next major release of Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, will include new commands to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technology. Deno desktop will compile an application ...

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez ...