Microsoft has launched a new version of its Whiteboard app for Microsoft 365, with features designed to help people collaborate better whether they're working from the office or home, including new content types, new UI and expanded Microsoft 365 integration. The latest version also introduces templates to help you get started on a presentation, along with a "follow along" feature to guide users through ideas.

Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz, trying to solve the problem of podcast discovery, as podcasts are often 30 minutes long and hard for listeners to browse new shows. Instead of podcasters manually choosing how to promote their show, Podz chooses a clip using its machine learning model.

Facebook is funding research into deepfake technology to guard against future threats as the work is still in the research stage and isn't ready to be deployed. This work is a collaboration with academics from Michigan State University to create a method to reverse-engineer deepfakes. The work is useful as it could help Facebook track down bad actors spreading deep fakes.

An autonomous ship fitted with software developed by IBM set sail across the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship is an artificial intelligence, solar-powered marine research vessel that will sail across oceans to collect environmental data. The ship's name commemorates the crossing of the original Mayflower 400 years ago.

Amazon admits it has a fake review problem, but does its best to spread the blame around in a new post detailing the issue, aiming to look as if it is finally putting its foot down, but no new efforts or rules are discussed. Amazon reviews have become notoriously unreliable as indicators of quality as the store has given itself over willingly to counterfeits, AliExpress resellers and promotion of the company’s internal brands.