Windows Recall has one big gotcha, and it’s not privacy
So far, the flagship feature of Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PC vision is Windows Recall, an AI-powered local search of your PC. But there’s a catch: Recall is going to suck up a lot of your…
Mark Hachman
Mark Hachman
Hands on: Microsoft’s Surface Pro thankfully gives up on ‘lapability’
For years, reviews of Microsoft’s Surface Pro came with a big caveat. They were light, they were lovely — and the Windows tablet also shipped with a thin kickstand that sliced into your thighs. Microsoft’s…
Microsoft Paint’s new Cocreator is an unexpected AI art treat
Microsoft’s Paint app now boasts not just one, but two AI art tools — Image Creator and Cocreator — and boy, are they something. First things first: Microsoft Cocreator, the scaled-down version of Microsoft’s Bing…
Microsoft Surface Laptop 2024 hands-on: It’s what’s inside that counts
Many of Microsoft’s Surface devices aim at something: a tablet. A mini laptop. A pull-forward design. The Surface Laptop 2024 (7th Edition) is less about the Microsoft hardware than what’s inside it — namely, a…
Windows Recall could solve my biggest problem in tech
Microsoft may have finally solved my biggest problem working with multiple sources of information: information fragmentation. As in, where was I told this crucial bit of information? Microsoft’s Recall is arguably the showcase feature of…
Microsoft’s new Surface laptops are bursting with AI power
Microsoft launched its Surface Pro (2024) tablet and the Surface Laptop (2024) as part of a major coming-out party for both the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite as well as Windows on Arm, part of Microsoft’s…
Meet the future of Windows: Copilot+ PCs unleash practical AI tools
To date, PC vendors have shipped AI PCs. On Monday, Microsoft announced the next step in the AI PC’s evolution, the Copilot+ PC, and announced AI-powered Windows 11 features like Recall. “The pursuit has always…
Intel says ‘Lunar Lake’ will beat Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite
Today might be the coming-out party for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips and a sizeable number of laptop partners, but Intel wants to remind you that it will reveal its next-gen Core Ultra mobile chips,…
Dell XPS 13 infused with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip
Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite powers…
4 handy Chromebook upgrades Google didn’t mention in its I/O keynote
Google has solved a fundamental problem with Chromebook gaming in a rather awesome way: How do you play Android touch games on Chromebooks without a touchscreen? For a long time, the answer was simply: you…