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LONDON: Apple’s latest gadgets have sparked excitement among Arabs, although some are raising eyebrows at the hefty price tags. Along with an upgraded iOS system, new MacBooks range and its most-powerful chips yet, Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to po[CENSORED]rize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination. Apple chief executive officer, Tim Cook, proudly introduced the sleek Vision Pro goggles at the annual developers’ conference in Cupertino, California, a campus co-designed by the late Steve Jobs. “This marks the beginning of a journey that will bring a new dimension to powerful personal technology,” Cook said. The Vision Pro is Apple’s maiden voyage into the mixed reality market, boasting a high-resolution display, eye-tracking technology, and a formidable processor. For some Arabs, the Vision Pro could revolutionize work, learning, and play with potential applications in remote collaboration, education, and gaming. Emkwan, a UAE-based tech content creator at the event, said: “I’m actually shocked at all this. There’s so much to take in about Apple Vision Pro. It’s both scary and beautiful. Has Apple killed the iPhone with the Apple Vision Pro?”However, with a $3,500 price tag, not everyone is ready to jump on the Vision Pro bandwagon. One user said: “Not yet. You won’t kill the iPhone with VR until you make it affordable enough to put into the average and above average consumer hands and right now, it’s priced outside of their reach.”Saudi-based tech influencer Majed Al-Dakhiel recognized the game-changing potential of the goggles, but questioned Apple’s target audience. “The goggles are truly transformative and open the door of competition between developers. But will they be an entertainment or retail product?” he said on Twitter. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2316796/media

NewsAccessoriesBusinessEntertainmentGamingLaptopsMobilePCs & ComponentsSecuritySmart TechSoftwareWi-Fi & NetworksWindowsBest PicksAccessoriesBusinessEntertainmentGamingLaptopsMobilePCs & ComponentsSecuritySmart TechSoftwareWi-Fi & NetworksWindowsReviewsAccessoriesBusinessEntertainmentGamingLaptopsMobilePCs & ComponentsSecuritySmart TechSoftwareWi-Fi & NetworksWindowsHow-ToAccessoriesBusinessEntertainmentGamingLaptopsMobilePCs & ComponentsSecuritySmart TechSoftwareWi-Fi & NetworksWindowsDealsAll DealsCoupon CodesAll Coupon CodeseBay CouponHP Coupon CodeOnePlus CouponSamsung Promo CodeMicrosoft CouponDell Coupon CodeMotley Fool DiscountGoPro Promo CodeStarz Promo CodeAT&T Wireless Promo CodeBlack Friday 2021 CouponsCyber Monday 2021 CouponsLaptopsWindowsSecurityMoreAccessoriesBusinessEntertainmentGamingMobilePCs & ComponentsSmart TechSoftwareWi-Fi & NetworksNewslettersDigital Magazine – SubscribeDigital Magazine – Log inSkip to contentNewsBest PicksReviewsHow-ToDealsHot Topics Black Friday Deals Best laptops Best VPN Laptop deals Desktop PC deals Best SSDs Best monitorsWhen you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn't affect our editorial independence.Home / Software / NewsUpdatedMicrosoft 365’s Copilot AI moves out of beta and into… everywhereMicrosoft is injecting AI into virtually every app it owns with CopilotMark HachmanBy Mark HachmanSenior Editor, PCWorld Nov 15, 2023 9:28 am PSTMicrosoft Copilot im neuen Windows 11-UpdateImage: MicrosoftMicrosoft wants to make its AI service for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot, basically ubiquitous within its ecosystem. And at its Ignite conference, Microsoft is well on its way to launch Copilot services early next year.For consumers, Copilot means adding additional AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Office apps like Outlook and Teams. Microsoft is planning to remove the “Bing Chat” brand that has marked its early forays into AI and just replace it with “Copilot,” for both consumers and enterprises. Copilot is also moving out of preview, and will become generally available starting December 1.If you’ve used Windows Copilot — especially while working with the Copilot sidebar open — you may have noticed Copilot react to what you’re doing elsewhere on the screen. Text you’ve copied, for example, gets slurped up by Copilot, ready for it to be acted upon. Expect Copilot to work similarly in apps like Teams, transcribing and taking notes while a meeting occurs, but also volunteering insights when the meeting wraps up. In the latter case, some of the analysis may be performed by Teams itself; if your business subscribes to Dynamics 365, however, you may see a sales-specific Copilot start offering suggestions.Microsoft 365, however, touches over 300 million users each month, and Microsoft has big plans to add AI to its core apps. Copilots are coming to users, and to admins, too. Remember https://www.pcworld.com/article/2137886/microsoft-copilot-moves-out-of-beta-and-into-everywhere.html

In an entertaining new video previewed by Dave’s Garage, the design and purpose of Microsoft’s USB Cart of Death is discussed by two Windows development luminaries. The titular cart was based upon a mail cart, brimming with an unhealthy tangle of over 60 daisy-chained USB devices of all types and functions. Victimized PCs were connected to the cart via a single plug, often quickly falling prey to the infamous Blue Screen of Death (in the early days).Dave’s Garage is hosted by Dave Plummer, who you may know for his important work on creating Windows Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, and ZIP folders. Joining him in the video clip above is Raymond Chen, a veteran of Windows development for over 30 years and author of The Old New Thing. Chen recalls that when USB was a new technology and began to get support in the Windows OS, its device diversity and flexibility made it imperative that it should be as robust as possible.USB devices started to gain momentum from the Windows 98 era. Around this time, the Windows kernel team and other Windows developers needed to work on the robustness of USB support of Windows builds. Thus, the USB Cart of Death was born. Chen says that the cart was probably a repurposed office mail cart. However, it looked quite different as it was laden with the widest range of USB devices available in those early days.Microsoft’s USB Cart of Death featured three mice, four keyboards, printers, drives, and all sorts of USB peripherals. Its creator(s) also added a bunch of hubs, and because the USB spec mentioned hubs could be daisy chained up to three deep, they did this, too. Overall, perhaps 64 USB devices were all chained together, aiming to push the interface to its maximum. Finally, as an ergonomic and fun touch, a USB gaming steering wheel was attached to the USB cart of death, with which its handler could steer it around.With the cart constructed as outlined above, it was basically used to terrorize Windows developers. Chen told Plummer that the cart may be taken to a developer’s office, and the victim casually asked whether something could be plugged into a current test machine. “You plugged that one plug into the test machine [and] the entire USB infrastructure would go crazy,” recalled Chen.The developer accompanying the cart might then wait for things to settle down and begin testing the various mice, keyboards, printers, etc, to see if they had all successfully been recognized. However, a ‘rude’ cart driver might instead plugin, watch the system start attempting to cope with ~64 devices being simultaneously foisted upon it, and then yank the plug amidst the PC’s struggle. “Because the usual result of this was a blue screen,” the cart got its nickname, the USB Cart of Death, explained Chen.As well as surprising innocent and unexpecting developers, Chen said that the USB Cart of Death would sometimes be used to prepare BSOD PCs ready for debugging. He talked about a USB testing lab with rows of machines where he could plug/unplug the USB cart of death in randomly sadistic ways: five seconds – unplug, seven seconds – unplug, etc. The next morning, developers could come in and debug the crashed machines and hopefully make progress in stabilizing Windows USB support. Moreover, seeing PCs crash in different ways was both interesting and useful.Chen quipped that after one USB bug was fixed, “it wouldn’t crash next time – the same way,” adding with some mirth, “Congratulations, it crashed for a different reason.”Readers of a certain age might remember the USB plug-and-play scanner crash during Bill Gates’ presentation at Comdex. Chen reckons that Gates’ scanner crash with Windows 98 predates the USB Cart of Death. However, that on-stage upset might have inspired this four-wheeled USB device-packed menace, mused Chen.Plummer’s full interview with Chen will be available via Dave’s Garage on YouTube starting Saturday, November 25. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-cart-of-death-windows-development

Mimimi Games, the people behind the excellent Desperados 3, the excellent Shadow Tactics, and the excellent Shadow Gambit, has one last present for us before it closes its doors forever. The studio has announced two upcoming DLC expansions for Shadow Gambit, set for release on December 6 and "marking the ultimate chapter from us as Mimimi Games."I'd love to tell you precisely what those two DLCs will be, but Mimimi is playing its cards close to its chest even with just two weeks to go until their release date. There are a few details to tease out, though. For one, both pieces of DLC will add "several hours of fresh content" onto the base game, and will between them add a new character, an uncharted island, and a new, six-mission story campaign."Prepare to welcome a new playable character, armed with unique supernatural abilities and ready to join the ranks of the cursed crew," reads the DLCs' announcement blurb, which boasts too of a "mystical, uncharted island in the Lost Caribbean, waiting to be explored." Personally, were I to discover a mystical and uncharted island in the Lost Caribbean I'd just leave well enough alone, but I suppose this is why I write videogame news instead of plundering the high seas.Mimimi says the new add-ons will integrate into the main game, meaning you'll be able to use any new characters for your main campaign hijinks. That's all we know right now, but given the very limited amount of time between today and release, that'll probably change soon. https://www.pcgamer.com/mimimis-swan-song-is-2-same-day-expansions-for-shadow-gambit-before-the-studio-shuts-its-doors-forever/