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Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop
Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Surface Laptop — an Arm-based laptop for consumers. It’s got one big difference from the Surface Laptop 6 for Business announced in March — it’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip instead of Intel’s Core Ultra, leveling the playing field, the company hopes, with Apple’s powerful and efficient MacBook laptops.
The new Surface laptop comes in four colors and has 13.8- and- 15-inch display options. The company says it’s “80 percent faster than our previous generation” and offers “up to 22 hours of local video playback.” Microsoft calls the new Laptop a “Copilot Plus PC” thanks to a neural processing unit that will power Windows 11 AI features like Recall, an on-device feature that lets...
Published on 20 May 2024 | 5:37 pm
Another online pharmacy bypasses the FDA to offer cut-rate weight loss drugs
Hims & Hers Health, one of the online pharmacies that got its start prescribing dick pills, is now offering knockoff versions of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Hims & Hers says it will offer drugs that mimic Ozempic and Wegovy, the active ingredient of which is semaglutide.
The copycat versions are made by compounding pharmacies. The formulations aren’t the same as the FDA-approved versions of the drug and haven’t been directly evaluated by the FDA, either. But they’re cheaper than the real thing: $199 a month, compared to the branded version, which can cost more than $1,000 a month without insurance.
Compounding pharmacies can make knockoff versions of branded drugs when they are in shortage, as the GLP-1 drugs — prescribed for diabetes and...
Published on 20 May 2024 | 5:23 pm
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
Microsoft’s launching Recall for Windows 11, a new tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more. All you need to do is perform a “Recall” action, which is like an AI-powered search, and it’ll present a snapshot of that period of time that gives you context of the memory.
As a matter of fact, everything you do on the PC appears on an explorable timeline you can scroll through. You can...
Published on 20 May 2024 | 5:18 pm
Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware
Microsoft is making a major push to put AI into laptops. It’s introducing a new branding today called “Copilot Plus PCs” that’ll highlight when Windows laptops come with built-in AI hardware and support for AI features across the operating system.
At an event at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington on Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Copilot Plus PCs will be offered by all of its major laptop partners, including Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Acer, and Asus. The company’s own Surface line will offer Copilot Plus PC models, too. And while the company is also making a big push to bring Arm chips to Windows laptops, Nadella said that laptops with Intel and AMD chips will offer these AI features, too.
Published on 20 May 2024 | 5:16 pm
Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops
At Microsoft’s big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs.
Published on 20 May 2024 | 4:57 pm
Microsoft’s Surface and Windows AI event live blog: it’s Arm time
Are you ready for Microsoft’s latest Windows on Arm push? That’s what we’re expecting at today’s Surface and Windows AI event.
Rumors suggest Microsoft will unveil a new Arm-powered Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices and a host of new AI features for Windows. Microsoft has been building up to this moment for quite some time, so expect to hear a lot about its transition to Windows on Arm.
Things kick off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Microsoft isn’t livestreaming this event, so follow our live blog for all the very latest as it happens.
Published on 20 May 2024 | 4:30 pm
A rundown of what’s new and improved in Android 15 — so far
The annual refreshes of Android and iOS are always worth looking out for, and in the wake of Google I/O 2024, we now have the second beta release of Android 15, so it’s a good opportunity to round up everything coming to the OS this year.
If you want to get involved in the beta testing — bearing in mind that these betas will have bugs and issues — head here to see if your device is eligible. Google Pixel owners can sign up, and a select number of phones from third-party manufacturers are included in the program, too, including handsets from OnePlus and Nothing (though not Samsung as yet).
Bear in mind that features will be added (and quite possibly removed) in the months to come as we head toward the full launch of Android 15, which...
Published on 20 May 2024 | 3:32 pm
Apple’s time travel comedy Time Bandits starts streaming in July
You won’t need to travel too far into the future to see Apple TV Plus’ next adventure series. The streamer just announced that Time Bandits, an adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film of the same name, will premiere on July 24th. The TV version of the story will span 10 episodes and, according to Apple, is about “an unpredictable journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin.”
The show has some comedy bona fides at least, with Jemaine Clement and Iain Morris serving as co-showrunners and Taika Waititi also on board as co-creator and executive producer. The cast, meanwhile, is led by Lisa Kudrow and a young Kal-El Tuck and also features the likes of Tadhg...
Published on 20 May 2024 | 2:43 pm
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
The head of Google sat down with Decoder last week to talk about the biggest advancements in AI, the future of Google Search, and the fate of the web.
Published on 20 May 2024 | 2:00 pm
Apple’s next AirTag could arrive in 2025
You may not have even thought about replacing your AirTag yet, but Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on a new one that could arrive in mid-2025. The new AirTag will reportedly feature an updated chip with better location tracking — an improvement it might need as competition among tracking devices ramps up.
By the time Apple rolls out its refreshed AirTag, the Bluetooth tracking landscape will look a lot different on both Android and iOS. Last month, Google revealed its new Find My Device network, which lets users locate their phones using signals from nearby Android devices. Even Life360, the safety service company that owns Tile, is creating its own location-tracking network that uses satellites to locate its Bluetooth tags.
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Published on 20 May 2024 | 1:34 pm