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Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is using its new Surface launch and this week’s Build developer conference as a platform to launch its new “Copilot+" PC initiative, which comes with specific...
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It’s not “Windows 12”: Microsoft keeps Windows 11 branding despite major changes
Enlarge / The new Arm-powered Surface Laptop. These Copilot+ PCs are all pictured with a refreshed version of Windows 11's "Bloom" wallpaper. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is announcing some fairly...
View ArticleM4 iPad Pro teardown finds easier-to-access battery, glimpses of Tandem OLED...
iFixit's M4 iPad Pro teardown. Right on schedule for past releases, iFixit has done a teardown of Apple's new, redesigned iPad Pro. It found that the iPad itself has one big improvement in...
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HP resurrects ’90s OmniBook branding, kills Spectre, Dragonfly
Enlarge / HP's new OmniBook X laptop (left) and EliteBook Ultra G1q (right) will start at $1,200 and $1,700, respectively. (credit: HP ) HP is rebranding its consumer and commercial computers. The...
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You can now buy a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot for $16K
The Unitree G1, with karate kick action! [credit: Unitree ] Does anyone want to buy a humanoid robot for $16,000? The latest product from Unitree hopes that you will: Meet the Unitree G1, a "Humanoid...
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iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1 fix a nasty bug that resurfaced old photos
Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has released its first bug fix update for iOS and iPadOS. The 17.5.1 release claims to fix a bug that saw some...
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New Arm-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop aim directly at Apple Silicon...
Microsoft's Surface Pro 11 comes with Arm chips and an optional OLED display panel. [credit: Microsoft ] If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Microsoft has announced a pair of new devices...
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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Enlarge / A screenshot of Microsoft's new "Recall" feature in action. (credit: Microsoft) At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called "Recall" for...
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$899 mini PC puts Snapdragon X Elite into a mini desktop for developers
Enlarge / The Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows fits a Snapdragon X Elite and 32GB of RAM into an $899 mini desktop. (credit: Qualcomm) Microsoft and Qualcomm are both making a concerted effort...
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After beating Sonos case, Google brings back group speaker controls
Enlarge / The Nest Audio. (credit: Google) It's unclear how much life is left in the 4-year-old Nest Audio or 8-year-old Google Home speakers, but Google is at least bringing back a feature it...
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Comcast’s streaming bundle is $15/month for Netflix, Peacock, Apple TV+, and ads
Enlarge / Comcast/Xfinity's new bundle of streaming services harkens back to a much earlier era. (credit: Getty Images) Disaggregation is so 2010s, so Comcast, facing intense pressure from streaming...
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Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89
Enlarge / A photo of Gordon Bell speaking at the annual PC Forum in Palm Springs, California, March 1989. (credit: Ann E. Yow-Dyson/Getty Images) Computer pioneer Gordon Bell, who as an early employee...
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After years of rumors, Sonos has now entered the headphones market
The new headphones look just like earlier leaks showed. [credit: Sonos ] After months of rumors and leaks, audio brand Sonos has announced and revealed its first foray into personal audio with the...
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Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company
Enlarge / The Humane AI Pin. It has a magnetic back, so it sticks to your clothing like a name tag. (credit: Humane) The wearable startup Humane, makers of the bizarre Humane AI Pin, is already...
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One difference with this wave of Arm PCs? All the big PC makers are actually...
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single time that Microsoft has tried to get Windows running on Arm-based processors, instead of the Intel and...
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Next up in Google’s dramatic overhaul of search: AI Overview ads
Ads in AI Overview. They're below the fold in this example. [credit: Google ] Google's AI Overview is a complete transformation of what Google Search is, changing from a product that searches the web...
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Biggest Windows 11 update in 2 years nearly finalized, enters Release Preview
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) The Windows 11 24H2 update isn’t scheduled to be released until sometime this fall, but testers can get a near-final version of it early. Microsoft has released Windows 11...
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Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Bing, Microsoft's search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from Microsoft's Edge browsers that had yet to change their...
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“Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
Enlarge (credit: Spotify) Owners of Spotify's soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn't responded to pleas to...
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Apple clarifies iOS 17.5 bug that exposed deleted photos
Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) On May 20, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to fix a bug users had found a few days prior in iOS 17.5 that resurfaced old photos...
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