No, Pocket 386 isn’t a joke, but rather a real modern handheld Windows 95 laptop. Featuring a 7″ IPS LCD display with either a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio, an Ali M6117 processor, 8MB of RAM, a VGA card, an OPL3 sound card, and a CompactFlash card reader.
Priced from $1,349.99 USD, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop is the company’s first Copilot+ PC, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor. Featuring a new Link to Windows4 function that allows users to seamlessly perform everyday actions like retrieving contacts or sending messages on a phone with natural language via Copilot voice prompts.
Musician Joe Porter played both the Windows XP startup and shutdown sounds using various percussion instruments, accompanied by a string quartet. They included a crystalphone, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer, flairdrum, steel pan, and lots more.
Microsoft Azure AI Speech’s Personal Voice lets Truecaller Assistant users to create a digital version of their own voice to use inside the app. Existing users of Assistant can have callers hear a replicated and authentic version of your voice instead of one of the many digital assistants available.
Microsoft‘s real-time video translation doesn’t require any software other than their Edge browser. This technology was unveiled during the Microsoft Build 2024 conference and compatible with Spanish to English, English to German, English to Hindi, English to Italian, English to Russian, and English to Spanish.
The Microsoft Copilot+ Surface Pro was unveiled today at a special event taking place at the company’s new campus. Unlike its predecessors, this model boasts an all-new system architecture that brings the power of the CPU, GPU, and now a new high performance Neural Processing Unit (NPU) together.
OpenAI introduces GPT-4o, the company’s latest flagship model capable of reasoning across audio, vision, and text, all in real time. This model can accept as input any combination of text, audio, and image, before using that data to generate any combination of text, audio, as well as image outputs.
Photo credit: Banseok Seo
We know Microsoft is working on a handheld, and for those who just can’t wait to see a prototype, industrial designer Banseok Seo’s Xbox Half concept teases what such a device could look like. One feature we hope the real Xbox Handheld has is dual-booting, enabling users to partition the main drive into two halves for separate operating systems.
