New Features and Corporate Rebranding

Your smart speakers aren’t secure in a wild new way, crazy product announcement day from Microsoft and Adobe, crazy new logo design day from everyone but especially Facebook, and Wikipedia makes a big change to citations.

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Links:

• Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home (Wired)
• Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge)
• Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget)
• Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge)
• Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet)
• Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge)
• Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom)
• Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store (WCCFTech)
• The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired)

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