Neowin News Feed for: Automation

Microsoft is ignoring its most powerful automation tool in Windows 11

Usama Jawad — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:16:02 +0000

Windows 11 hides a powerful automation engine in plain sight, but its aging design and poor usability keep it out of reach for most users. Read more...

Microsoft Teams to add a faster way to build automations using slash commands

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:40:01 +0000

Tired of digging through menus? Microsoft is making Teams workflows much easier to discover. Learn how the new slash command shortcut will boost your productivity this spring. Read more...

Amazon acquires humanoid robot startup Fauna Robotics to bolster its automation tech

Paul Hill — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:24:01 +0000

Amazon's latest acquisition signals a massive bet on the future of robotics. Discover why the "Sprout" humanoid bot is a major step toward making robots a household reality. Read more...

Report: TikTok letting go of hundreds of UK moderators for AI systems

David Uzondu — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:18:01 +0000

TikTok is preparing to cut potentially hundreds of jobs in the UK, as the company moves to replace more of its human moderators with AI. Read more...

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Nvidia and Foxconn planning to deploy humanoid robots within months

Paul Hill — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:30:01 +0000

Nvidia and Foxconn are in talks to have humanoid robots work on factory lines producing AI server hardware for Nvidia. It poses questions for the future of factory jobs. Read more...

Visa wants to give AI agents your credit card so that they can shop and pay for you

David Uzondu — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:04:02 +0000

Visa is partnering with key AI companies through Visa Intelligent Commerce, allowing AI agents to securely pay for items on your behalf. Read more...

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Sponsored — Mon, 08 May 2023 14:00:01 +0000

Today, more than one third of support centers in the HDI community report using AI. Find out seven of the most significant benefits of automating service management with this free eBook. Read more...

IBM says it will pause hiring for jobs to be replaced by AI automation

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 02 May 2023 05:12:01 +0000

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that the company is no longer planning to hire jobs that can be automated using artificial intelligence tools, impacting around 7,800 jobs. Read more...

Microsoft brings Automate tab to Excel on desktop

Usama Jawad — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has brought the Automate tab to Excel on the desktop, both Windows and Mac. The feature enables users to leverage Power Automate to schedule and manage their Office Scripts. Read more...

Here are all the new features Microsoft added to Excel in October 2022

Usama Jawad — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has introduced a few new functionalities to Excel across various platforms this month. The improvements should enhance productivity and streamline the overall user experience. Read more...

Amazon creates a $1bn fund to develop robot warehouse workers and minimize injuries

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:44:01 +0000

Amazon has created 'Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund', through which it will invest a billion dollars in startups that will offer robots to assist human workers in the eCommerce giant's warehouses. Read more...

Microsoft now restricts XLM macros in Excel by default

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced a application policy change for customers, saying that it will now restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros by default. Malicious actors often used it as an attack surface. Read more...

Microsoft announces Counterfit, an automation tool for security testing of AI systems

Usama Jawad — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:26:01 +0000

Counterfit is a tool from Microsoft which can be used to automate the security testing of AI models at scale. It is environment-, model-, and data-agnostic so can be used in a variety of situations. Read more...

Facebook has apologised for naughty word blocking blunder

Paul Hill — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:42:01 +0000

Facebook's automated blocking systems went into overdrive recently when it caused a woman to be blocked from a local Facebook after she set the collection point to a historical part of Plymouth, UK. Read more...

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News Staff — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:46:01 +0000

This 17-page e-book examines the increasing pressures faced by cybersecurity teams, risks of ineffective alert triage and new automation capabilities that improve security operations. Read more...

Nokia launches highly-automated and scalable software for managing 5G networks

Paul Hill — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:16:02 +0000

Nokia has launched its Network Operations Master, a tool designed for communication service providers to help manage the demands of operating a 5G network that would otherwise cause heavy workloads. Read more...

Hyundai begins public ride-hailing pilot in California

John - Patrick Thackeray — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:20:01 +0000

Launching November in Irvine, California, Hyundai is entering the self-driving market in a first of its kind for the company offering public rides free to all users during a pilot scheme. Read more...

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Report: 20 million manufacturing jobs to be automated by 2030

Paul Hill — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:48:01 +0000

A new report by Oxford Economics states that 20 million manufacturing jobs will be wiped out by 2030 worldwide. New jobs to fill those are likely to be created but could involve retraining. Read more...

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News Staff — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:46:01 +0000

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News Staff — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:46:01 +0000

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HPE will fund edge computing tech with $4 billion over the next four years

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:06:01 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise says it aims for the investment to help customers convert their customer data to intelligence right at the edge of a network where it is gathered and analyzed. Read more...

Microsoft working to eliminate cashiers and checkout lines in stores

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:34:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on new technology to help stores around the world compete with the likes of Amazon Go's automated checkout. The software aims to get rid of cashiers and checkout lines in stores. Read more...

Amazon ready to open checkout-less store to public

Paul Hill — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 19:42:01 +0000

Amazon is now primed to launch its Amazon Go store to the general public following a year of testing by its employees. The company will want to see how well the tracking mechanisms function. Read more...

The humanoid SecondHands robot will be used by Ocado in warehouses

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:30:01 +0000

SecondHands is an EU-funded robot that is being developed to assist with menial and laborious jobs. The online supermarket Ocado will be seeing how best it can help its technicians in its warehouses. Read more...

Apple patent reveals car software user interface

Paul Hill — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:08:01 +0000

New patents have surfaced which show mock-ups of Apple's self-driving car software. It's probably not how the final software will look but does give us cues about the feature set Apple will include. Read more...

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Vending machines to give lonely South Koreans their meat

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:56:01 +0000

A meat vending machine is being trialed in South Korea; the machine can regulate its own temperature, can provide meat at a much lower cost, and has been designed to help single-person homes. Read more...

Musk optimistic that current Tesla hardware can drive as well as humans

Paul Hill — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 04:06:01 +0000

Elon Musk expressed confidence that the current hardware in Tesla vehicles will be capable of self-driving to a level comparable to humans. He previously said Tesla cars will reach this goal in 2019. Read more...

Tesla's "beast" electric truck, is coming in October

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:46:01 +0000

Elon Musk has put back the date for the unveiling of his prototype all-electric truck to October 26th. The vehicle will launch Tesla's electric technology into a completely new sector of transport. Read more...

You can ride the Navya autonomous bus in London for free

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:58:02 +0000

The Navya driverless and all-electric bus will be free for people to ride around London's Olympic Park for 19 days of this month. It has been dubbed the future of public transport by its makers. Read more...

Bill Gates thinks we might have to start taxing robots in the future

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:30:01 +0000

In a recent interview, Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggested that in light of the loss of jobs due to automation, we may need to consider taxing robots in order to make up for lost federal revenue. Read more...

Intel to become a HERE shareholder; signs agreement for research on automated driving

Gabriel Nunes — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:34:01 +0000

Intel is set to buy 15% of HERE, according to a filing sent to the German cartel office today. In a joint statement, both companies agree to collaborate on maps for automated driving. Read more...

The first UK HomeKit switched plugs have arrived, offering clever energy saving features

Michael Firth — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:04:01 +0000

Elgato just succeeded in being the first major manufacturer to offer a HomeKit compatible switched plug for the UK market. And they have some clever energy saving features, too. Read more...