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The agent is accessed through a desktop application or a mobile app, and employees can chat with it through the Cisco-owned Webex videoconferencing software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The staff member involved has been reprimanded, and the obituary files have been moved off the studio desktop to prevent a repeat incident.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
People in lower income brackets also are more likely to have a smartphone than a laptop or desktop computer, according to data from Pew Research Center.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It has been longer since Apple updated its desktop models, the Mac Studio, Mac Mini and iMac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Mrs. Richardson tapped her pen against her desktop.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
When consumers moved from laptops and desktops to smartphones about 15 years ago, it produced a crisis in Silicon Valley.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The chip shortage is pushing people to buy cheaper laptops than desktops, which can last up to a decade, said Brousse, in Tokyo on his honeymoon.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Comet is limited to desktops for now, though Perplexity Chief Executive Aravind Srinivas told me a mobile app will be ready in less than two months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Once students started using desktops from prison classrooms, he pre-loaded academic articles onto thumb drives they could explore offline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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