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Microsoft’s metaverse will finally arrive in January, along with new Teams features that will allow users to decorate their backgrounds with AI. Over 320 million users use Microsoft Teams monthly, and Microsoft has identified two new features that it thinks they will care about: using AI to filter your voice (and just your voice) in Teams calls, and the rather wild ability to use AI to clean up your background. As to the latter, it sounds like what you might think: Teams identifies your backgro…
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Early Black Friday deals on Thunderbolt docks have begun, allowing you to buy discounted docking stations to expand the ports on your laptop. We’re busy scanning retailer sites, looking for the best early Black Friday deals on Thunderbolt docks in advance of Black Friday. We’ve listed each Thunderbolt dock deal below, followed by an explanation of why we picked them. For more context, scroll down to our FAQ, where we explain how much you should pay for a Black Friday Thunderbolt docking station…
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Black Friday isn’t even here yet, and there’s already a killer Thunderbolt dock deal that you should snap up. Put simply: Amazon is selling the HP Thunderbolt Dock G2 for $89.95, an unbelievable 74 percent off. Too good to be true? I don’t think so. In our roundup of the best Thunderbolt docks, our review of the Thunderbolt Dock G4 was close to perfect: 100W of charging, a great complement of ports, and solid, stable performance. About the only change that we can see between the G2 (which we h…
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Windows 11’s 2023 Update is here, bringing with it a number of new features to explore. But which ones are worth trying? We’ve listed our favorites, below. Windows 11’s 2023 Update is (eventually) being pushed to your PC as a free, cumulative update, which means that it encompasses features and applications that may have already arrived on your PC. Windows 11 users will receive most of the 2023 Update features by Nov. 14, though it may take longer for some systems. As our review shows, the la…
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Users of the free Brave browser this week received two very different looks at how the 2020 election played out using Leo, the free AI tool that now comes as part of the Brave browser. When PCWorld asked the free version of Leo who won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the AI tool waffled and declined to answer. However, users who wished to pay $15 per month for the more sophisticated version of Leo received the answer that Joe Biden was the winner. Brave designs a well-regarded Web browser…
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Stardock Software has released version 2 of its Start11 utility software, with three new Start menu styles as well as other visual features. Start11, originally released in 2022, was designed in reaction to the Windows 11 Start menu, and the desire of some users to go back to the Windows 10-style interface. Start11v2 allows Windows 10 and Windows 11 users to tweak the interface as well as add folders to the taskbar, creating what appears to be a hierarchical storage tree. The three new Start s…
3 months ago
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Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2), adding Copilot and other AI-infused apps within Windows. It’s a mostly positive step forward, though with definite room for improvement.
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AMD said Thursday that it will replace two of its mobile Ryzen 7040U processors with a version that uses “Zen 4c” technology, an efficient CPU core that appears in AMD’s server processors and some handheld gaming chips. AMD will swap out the Ryzen 5 7540U for the Ryzen 5 7545U, the company said. It will also replace the Ryzen 3 7440U with a version that includes the Zen 4c technology, but maintains the same product name. Neither of the “original” Ryzen cores have shipped in volume. The two new…
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Halloween apparently isn’t over. Microsoft is taking the knife to two legacy apps within Windows 11: Windows Maps and Movies & TV. But it’s syncing up with the Xbox app to give you even more flexibility on where to download games. The changes arrive as part of Windows Insider Build 25987, in the Canary Channel. Recall that Canary is the far-future channel, where Microsoft tests out brand new concepts that may never see the light of day. As part of the installation process, Microsoft said that…
3 months ago
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StarTech’s USB-C Triple Monitor Dock is a DisplayLink dock that performs well on specific tasks, but ultimately disappoints based on features and price.
3 months ago
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We may not know how Microsoft will redesign Windows 12, but we do know how Microsoft is thinking about it: The company is putting AI first, to the point where Windows Copilot could be the new Start button. During the announcement of the rather shocking performance claims surrounding Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and its Oryon CPU, Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon sat down for a pre-recorded video chat with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. The two have worked closely together to e…
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