I have to maintain a presence on social platforms for work, but I'm revolted by Musk's Nazi salute at the inauguration. The vast majority of my interactions and content will be on BlueSky: https://t.co/EuouQAHOQk
There's a lot of reasons to enjoy the free Vivaldi browser. And yeah, ads pay my bills. But, man, Vivaldi's latest browser version just blocks everything.
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If you're tired (as I am) of a lot of prerecorded "press conferences," the Windows Insider event this past week was a breath of fresh air. And it's for everyone! You could have gone!
(There's one more.)
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This story is a conversation my colleague Alaina Yee had with the Microsoft Surface team at Build (I ended up with a virtual pass, long story) but starts with a clarification if you want a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. #msbuild
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At Computex, Intel and Phison are teaming up to improve a big problem with local AI: you can't run large enough models. Their solution: using a high-performance SSD to cache tokens.
The catch? Well, you know. https://t.co/yM5gv3cwBV
This is something different: Microsoft is noodling around with a potential PowerToys addition that could turn the bottom of your screen into animated pixel art. #msbuild
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Project Solara by Microsoft appears to be Microsoft's entry into smart devices, one for the desk, powered by Mediatek and Qualcomm. "Think of it as a secure ambient device for work."
My colleague Michael Crider is writing up Microsoft's mini-PC version (the dev box) of the RTX Spark notebooks announced earlier this week. I think it's a smart idea, and might make more sense than a laptop, especially if you buy into the always-on agentic AI concept.
This is one of those weird tech things: right now, the champion of local personal AI agents is Nvidia. The champion of personal cloud agents is Google. (Among others, and set aside the whole utility argument for a second.)
Both products are named Spark.
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👀You know how everyone's obsessing over the Apple MacBook Neo's price point? Dell is launching an XPS 13 at the same $599 price!
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Microsoft's Surface lineup has been deadly dull for years now. The new Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's powerhouse RTX Spark chip changes all that. But there still substantial questions.
Nvidia's new graphics-heavy RTX Spark platform for PCs, and its new Windows on Arm N1X CPU, have been anticipated for some time. But Nvidia has something new planned for the PC.