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Microsoft is rolling out a new improved version of Microsoft Teams chat client, rebuilt to be faster and user-friendly. The app will now finally be available for Windows and Mac to download for free. The updated Teams app is now two times faster with 50 percent less memory, Microsoft said. The company reported that installing the app would be three times faster and launching or joining meetings two times faster, with the app now taking up 70 percent less disk space. Microsoft has made major performance improvement, moving from Electron foundations of Teams, towards Microsoft’s Edge WebView2 Technology . The company also adopted React JavaScript library and focused on improving the Microsoft Teams design with the Fluent design language system for several UI improvements. The new Teams app had been in preview for months but is now finally launching with full advanced features. “We have made notable progress since the launch of new Teams in public preview,” says Mi...

At the Fashion X AI show in Hong Kong, attendees noticed a certain "alien" quality about the new clothes modelled on the event's narrow catwalk - and the designs were, in fact, not entirely human. The show put more than 80 outfits from 14 designers in the spotlight, all of which were created with the help of the artificial intelligence software AiDA, short for "AI-based Interactive Design Assistant”. The software was developed by PhD students and academics at the Hong Kong-based AiDLab. Masked in monochrome blue, wearing outfits that ranged from down jackets to translucent skirts, models strutted past rows of critics and fashion designers. Attendee Cynthia Tse said it felt like she was witnessing the future of fashion at the show on Dec. 19. "I think the face covering is definitely alien-like, and exciting,” said Tse. According to AiDLab CEO Calvin Wong, the software was created to serve as a “supporting tool” for designers. ...