Microsoft is convinced its new Copilot Plus PCs will beat Apple’s M3 processor and spark a new generation of Windows laptops.
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The newest generation in the tablet / laptop hybrid line comes with some big upgrades — and, with the new Copilot Plus PC branding, some big performance promises.
At Microsoft’s big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs.
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Another tidbit from the FAQ:
At initial launch, Super Resolution will be available in a limited number of games available through the Xbox app for Windows PC: 7 Days to Die, BeamNG.drive, Borderlands 3, Control, Dark Souls III, Dying Light, The Forest, God of War, Resident Evil 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Skyrim SE, Sons of the Forest, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Unturned, Warframe, and The Witcher 3.
Is that just Microsoft putting its best foot forward, or do games need patched individually?
The job has never been harder, and the threats have never been stranger.
From the FAQ:
📎“You can select specific apps or websites visited in a supported browser to filter out of your snapshots.”
📎“Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge.”
📎“Recall will not store DRM content.”
📎“Note that Recall does not perform content moderation.”
📎“It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.”
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Every competitor is better, and most of them are cheaper.
The Apple TV Plus show’s finale was classic noir with a subtle dash of sci-fi.
Native Arm64 versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Firefly, and Express are available starting today, Adobe announced at the Surface event going on in Richmond right now. Illustrator and Premiere Pro won’t be far behind with June arrivals.
New Copilot Plus laptops and tablets with the architecture will be able to run the apps as soon as they arrive.
Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”
That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.
The Collage Atlas was a labor of love for designer John Evelyn, and now you can finally play it on Steam.
Like many other assistants and AI devices plugged into OpenAI’s latest LLM, Microsoft just announced at today’s Surface event that Copilot will soon be plugged into GPT-4o (and powered by new Surface Plus PCs). They demonstrated the integration by showing Copilot guide a player through Minecraft, using GPT-4o to see and react to what was happening onscreen.
We found all sorts of gadgets and goodies to celebrate the class of 2024, from the practical to the poignant.
New York Attorney General Leticia James announced the state settled with Genesis, which it sued in October 2023, along with the crypto trading firm Gemini, owned by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Genesis, one of the largest lenders to FTX, filed for bankruptcy in January last year.
James’ office reached a $1.1 billion settlement with Gemini in February.
Tedium has a tip for opting out of Google’s AI search results by default: add “udm=14” to your default Google Search URL, so it reads as “https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14” instead of Google dot com.
The process differs a bit depending on your browser. In Arc, for instance, you go to Arc > Settings > Profiles > Search settings > Add (Site search).
The FDA has given the Elon Musk company a green light for its second patient, the Wall Street Journal reports. Neuralink’s first implant in a human started to detach from that person’s brain, causing him to briefly lose some functions. To try to solve that problem, Neuralink reportedly plans to place the device’s threads deeper into the brain.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II launches tomorrow and the developers at Ninja Theory have released a new launch trailer detailing all the trials and tribulations Senua will experience on her journey. There’s fights against demons, a lot of crying, and a particularly harrowing burning at the stake. After all the game is called Hellblade and not “Very Nice Spring Day Blade” for a reason.
The GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker delivers on its promise of bringing smoking indoors, but sadly its smarts didn’t make me a better pitmaster.