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Microsoft is adding a new Advanced Paste feature to PowerToys for Windows 11 that can convert your clipboard content on the fly with the power of AI. The new feature can help people speed up their workflows by doing things like copying code in one language and pasting it in another, although its best tricks require OpenAI API credits.
Advanced Paste is included in PowerToys version 0.81 and, once enabled, can be activated with a special key command: Windows Key...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build 2024. | Screenshot: YouTube
Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows and AI — and a little to say about custom emoji — during the Build 2024 keynote. The company, like just about everyone else in the industry, is charging hard at cramming AI into every nook and cranny it can find. That means Copilot watching your screen to help you play Minecraft or giving you AI agent co-workers.
The whole event was over two hours long, but you can catch the...
Recall, one of Windows’ new AI features, on a Surface Laptop. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
Microsoft’s new Windows on Arm push is a milestone moment. It’s taken nearly five years to get to the point where the software maker is confident it has the upper hand over the MacBook Air on performance, battery life, and app compatibility.
But behind the scenes, Microsoft has been working on something even bigger. While Microsoft has spent years working toward an Arm transition...
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I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately... like, should I go back and replay the Kingdom Hearts series or not? Fortunately, Square Enix has made this decision trivial with the announcement that it’s releasing the series on Steam on June 13th. To celebrate, and perhaps destabilize an entire generation of adults for whom the first Kingdom Hearts trailer was a transformative experience (aka, me), a trailer was released with a brand-new recording of Hikaru...
A chunky electric spoon for your chunky low-sodium foods. | Image: Kirin
If you’re cutting salt out of your diet, either for medical reasons or just trying to be healthy, low-sodium foods can be a letdown. But don’t despair — Japanese company Kirin claims to have a solution in its Electric Salt Spoon, which uses electrodes to electrify your tongue to give you a little salty shock.
The idea, as Reuters puts it, is that it passes a small electric current to “concentrate sodium...
The wireless Yale Keypad Touch provides fingerprint and key code access for the new Yale Approach lock and several August smart locks. | Image: Yale
August makes excellent smart locks, but careful observers may have noticed that the company hasn’t released any new hardware in four years. Owners of August locks may be relieved to know that a new wireless keypad finally brings them the option of fingerprint unlocking.
The Yale Keypad Touch is a fingerprint-enabled wireless keypad for...
Sergio Garcia during LIV Golf’s Singapore event. | Photo by Lionel Ng/Getty Images
Sergio Garcia came up just short in U.S. Open qualifying, but he still has a chance to compete at Pinehurst No. 2 this year.
Sergio Garcia failed to qualify for the U.S. Open, losing a playoff that featured seven players competing for six spots at the Dallas Athletic Club on Monday.
The Spaniard bogeyed the first playoff hole, while every other competitor made a birdie or par, thus sending everyone...
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Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, drivers and teams are talking about confidence
Ahead of the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, Formula 1’s marquee event, two themes are emerging. The first is a common thread everytime the grid ventures to Monaco: Saturday is the big day. With overtaking coming at an absolute premium on the Monte Carlo streets, if you want to win the Monaco Grand Prix you better start up front, which means you best...
The Louisville Metro Police Department will investigate whether its officers followed proper protocols when world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday outside Valhalla Golf Club.
Mauricio Pochettino has left his role as Chelsea manager by mutual consent after less than 11 months in charge despite qualifying for European football next season, the club confirmed Tuesday.
OpenAI's multimodal model GPT-4o is now available to developers on Microsoft's Azure AI.
At Microsoft Build 2024, the company's developer conference, Microsoft shared that those itching to get their hands on GPT-4o can now access it through the Azure AI Studio and as an API.
Microsoft's Azure AI Studio is a playground for developers to try out the latest tools supported by Azure, which includes OpenAI models like GPT-4 Turbo — and now GPT-4o.
GPT-4o's image and vision capabilities are...
Some of the biggest names in social media, dating apps, and digital finance are teaming up to fight escalating online financial scams. Perhaps those disturbing AI-generated Facebook posts will finally meet their match.
Announced Tuesday, May 21, the Tech Against Scams coalition will act as a convening body between a network of tech companies to "collaborate on ways to take action against the tools used by scammers, educate and protect consumers, and disrupt rapidly evolving financial scams."...
Microsoft's annual Build event unsurprisingly focused on AI this year. Big Tech companies have all been hopping aboard the AI hype train, with Google most recently showing off its own AI products at its Google I/O event last week.
Earlier at this year's Build, Microsoft announced Team Copilot, an AI chatbot that acts as a co-worker for entire teams and companies, using the group's shared knowledge to answer questions and queries. Mashable noted how similar Team Copilot is to Google's own AI...
Microsoft's Build 2024 developer conference has been all about AI and CoPilot. Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI and was pleased to show off how companies can integrate its Azure and Open AI services into their workplaces.
But things got a little goofy 49 minutes and 59 seconds into the stream:
During CEO Satya Nadella's keynote speech, the Microsoft head man showed a demo of how a company can use Azure's implementation of OpenAI's AI models to help customers make life easier...
The White House suspended a secret mission to transfer detainees to Oman in October after Congress members expressed concerns about Middle East instability.
The stylish Sonos Ace come in black and white. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
At long last, the eagerly anticipated Sonos Ace have arrived. On Tuesday, the company announced that its first pair of wireless headphones will be available on June 5th. Even better, you can already preorder them ahead of launch for $449.
We’re still testing the Sonos Ace, but in our limited time playing around with them during a recent demo session, we came away impressed. The plush noise-canceling...
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Microsoft launched a range of Copilot Plus PCs yesterday that includes new AI features built directly into Windows 11. Behind the scenes, the company now has more than 40 AI models running on Windows 11 thanks to a new Windows Copilot Runtime that will also allow developers to use these models for their apps.
At Microsoft Build today, the company is providing a lot more details about exactly how this Windows Copilot Runtime works. The runtime...
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Here’s one more way to stay on top of your favorite programming projects: have them sync to the same File Explorer you already use to navigate your hard drive in Windows.
At Build, Microsoft now says it’s adding native version control to File Explorer by integrating systems like Git, letting you see new changes and comments directly from the app.
Image: MicrosoftHere’s a cropped and zoomed version of the provided screenshot so you...
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is making progress on adding multimodal inputs to its Grok chatbot, according to public developer documents. What this means is that, soon, users may be able to upload photos to Grok and receive text-based answers.
This was first teased in a blog post last month from xAI which said Grok-1.5V will offer “multimodal models in a number of domains.” The latest update to the developer documents...
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You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens-like 3D apps and digital objects to the headset, too?
At Build, Microsoft has just announced “Windows Volumetric Apps on Meta Quest,” a way to “extend Windows apps into 3D space.”
Details are slim, but the company showed off a digital exploded 3D view of an Xbox controller from the perspective of a...