Microsoft says it used its own agentic reasoning AI model to help develop and synthesize a new immersion fluid for PC cooling—and then confirmed that it worked by dunking a PC motherboard into a vat of it.
John Link, Microsoft’s principal program manager for product innovation, closed out Microsoft’s Build developer keynote by showing off how Microsoft inno
Gaming keyboard or ergonomic keyboard? You typically have to choose. But in the wise words of Old El Paso Tacos, “Por qué no los dos?” That’s the thinking behind the Asus ROG Falcata, a wireless gaming board that splits apart and connects over a USB-C bridge. Adam Patrick Murray went hands-on with it at Computex.
By the way, Asus sponsored the vid
A new command-line application, Windows Edit, is coming to Windows 11 as part of a bevy of tools aimed at developers and enthusiasts. But is a new tweak to WinGet the real star of the show?
It’s hard not to see Edit as a replacement for Notepad, the generally utilitarian interface that could be used for editing all sorts of things. Users also have access to
You’ve probably barely become used to interacting with ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AIs. Whether you like it or not, Microsoft will soon start guiding you towards the next generation of AI: ordering agents to autonomously pursue tasks for you, particularly in the business space.
Today, at Microsoft Build, the company begins rolling out tools to consumers and
The Edge browser is gaining a nifty little feature, Microsoft said at its Build conference: the ability to simply translate entire PDFs, wholesale.
Today, translation works across entire webpages rather fluidly. If you open a webpage in German, for example, your browser will either translate its entirety automatically, or you can do it in a click. But certa
Microsoft is waiving the fee to sign up and publish to the Microsoft Store beginning in June, as the company tries to appeal to Windows app developers and their pocketbooks. It would make the Microsoft Store on Windows the first “free” store for publishing apps, Microsoft said at its annual Build developer conference.
Although it’s difficult to determine ho
Back in the older versions of Windows, there used to be a handy feature called Windows Easy Transfer that painlessly guided the process of migrating files and settings from one computer to another. Sadly, it was discontinued with Windows 10 as Microsoft wanted users to start using its OneDrive cloud storage instead.
But it seems like Windows Easy Transfer m
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Arm-based Windows laptops running Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are all the rage, at least if you hear it from Microsoft or its manufacturing partners. But they aren’t exactly affordable, or even a good value compared to Intel or AMD. But th