With Google and OpenAI both revealing their big AI plans in recent weeks, and with Apple expected to do the same next month, you could have been forgiven for forgetting about Microsoft. But AI is a huge part of the tech giant’s plans for Windows, and anyone following its annual Build conference will have been left in no doubt about that.
To that end, it unveiled a heap of new hardware and software with AI at its heart, including new Surface laptops built around Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chips and their AI-friendly neural processing units. It also showed off a new Recall feature, which takes screenshots every few seconds, then stores them away so that you can search for anything you’ve done on your machine. A privacy nightmare? Maybe, but interesting nonetheless. There was much more, including a new iPad-rival Surface Pro tablet, and you can read about the highlights in the articles linked below.
The other big event on our minds this week is the Memorial Day sales, which are now in full swing, even though Memorial Day itself isn't until Monday. You won’t find the new Surface devices there, but you will find a lot more, including some huge savings on OLED TVs, appliances and, yes, iPads. Happy shopping!
Microsoft has unveiled its new Surface Pro 2-in-1, featuring a new Snapdragon X Elite processor and lots of AI features – and we think it's a genunine challenger to the iPad Pro for the title of best super-powered mobile computing device you can buy.
The Memorial Day sales are in full swing across the US, and we've rounded up all the best deals from Lowe's, Best Buy, Amazon, Target, and all the big retailers – and we'll be adding more deals over the weekend and on Memorial Day itself.
We've got some more rumored details of how Apple is going to use AI to transform Siri and the entire iOS 18 experience: there are mentions of a more conversational voice assistant, notification summaries, voice memo transcriptions, and AI photo editing.
Few gadgets have been rumored for as long as the first pair of Sonos headphones have, and now the Sonos Ace cans are here – with noise cancellation and Dolby Atmos, but without (surprisingly) the ability to connect to an existing Sonos speaker system.
Canon has officially announced the EOS R1, but hasn't given us much in the way of detail. While we wait to hear about an on-sale date and price, the much-anticipated mirrorless flagship has been spotted in the wild, in the build-up to the Monaco Grand Prix.
Keen to watch something new this weekend? For Max subscribers in the US, Denis Villeneuve’s star-studded sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two is now available to stream, while Ferrari and Atlas crash-land onto Hulu and Netflix, respectively.
