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Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event
Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, and it will be released on October 16th. The laptop also has built-in magnetic USB-C charging instead…
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Wearable
watchOS 27 adds three new apps to your Apple Watch
watchOS 27 is the latest major software update for Apple Watch, and among its variety of new features, it adds three new apps to your Watch. Siri just got a major AI overhaul in watchOS 27, and one part of that is a brand new Siri app. The Siri app is available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and also the Apple Watch. watchOS 27 still lets you invoke Siri via the Digital…
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Bouygues Telecom baisse le ticket d’entrée sur trois Samsung, mais le vrai calcul se fait sur 24 mois
Bouygues Telecom pousse actuellement plusieurs offres autour des smartphones Samsung, avec des prix d’appel très agressifs et des forfaits mobiles associés. Le Galaxy A37 5G démarre à 99 € avec un forfait 130 Go à 14,99 €/mois, tandis que les Galaxy S26 Ultra et Galaxy Z Fold8 s’appuient sur un forfait 250 Go à 29,99 €/mois pendant un an, puis 39,99 €/mois. Sur le papier, les remises donnent envie de regarder de plus près.…
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Microsoft invente le port USB-C magnétique : la sécurité du MagSafe d’Apple, la liberté en plus
Microsoft n’avait pas organisé de conférence Windows et Surface depuis plus de deux ans. Ce mercredi 7 octobre à San Francisco, entre deux démonstrations d’IA, l’entreprise a présenté Magnetic Connect, qu’elle décrit comme « le premier chargeur USB-C magnétique intégré au monde ». L’idée reprend celle du MagSafe d’Apple : si on se prend les pieds dans le câble, la prise se détache au lieu d’emporter l’ordinateur portable avec elle. La différence se trouve…
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Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut
If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: The company on Wednesday announced that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated iPad app. That’s a milestone it took Instagram some 15 years to reach, despite constant user demand. Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to…
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Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
As many doctors are moving ahead with the latest advances of modern medicine—from powerful obesity drugs to breakthrough cancer treatments—pediatricians are being forced to turn back, fighting to maintain advances in children’s health that were hard-won decades ago. With anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has spent a considerable amount of time and resources in the past year fiercely defending lifesaving vaccinations—safe, routine shots that…
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Smartphones
Au tour du Samsung Galaxy A57 de recevoir la mise à jour vers One UI 9
Après ses smartphones haut de gamme, Samsung commence à déployer sa mise à jour vers One UI 9 sur des appareils moins coûteux, avec le Galaxy A57 en chef de file. Samsung a lancé One UI 9, la dernière version de sa surcouche basée sur Android 17, cet été à l’occasion de la sortie de ses nouveaux smartphones pliables : les Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra et Z Flip 8. Depuis,…
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128 Go de RAM et puce Nvidia : voici la réponse de Microsoft à Apple avec le Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft a mis quatre mois à passer de la vitrine au bon de commande. Le Surface Laptop Ultra avait été montré une première fois début juin, sans prix ni date. Ce mercredi 7 octobre, il a été détaillé pendant la keynote Windows et Surface organisée avec Nvidia à San Francisco, et il est désormais en précommande aux États-Unis à partir de 2 599 dollars, soit environ 2 300 euros hors taxes. Pour la première…
Lire l’article completGoogle Play is working on a Spotify-style taste profile, but for games
TL;DR Google is working on an AI-powered Game Finder feature for the Play Store that could offer more personalized game recommendations. A new Gamer DNA profile would use your gameplay, ratings, and interests to shape suggestions, and users could tweak it to fine-tune their feed. We were able to surface the Gamer DNA UI, but the feature wasn’t functional. We already know that Google is working on a custom game playlist feature that will…
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IA
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media companies: designing products that keep users engaged, even when that engagement can become harmful. In chatbots, engagement is often won by behaviors like sycophancy and sometimes leads to catastrophic consequences.…
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IA
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Haiku 5.5 model, details here
Anthropic has released its latest AI model with Claude Haiku 5.5. The new version arrives about a year after the previous Haiku model upgrade. Anthropic currently offers a few Claude AI models. The three main models are Haiku (smallest and cheapest), Sonnet (medium size and price), and Opus (largest and most expensive of the three). There’s also Fable/Mythos, which is even more capable and costly, which represents Anthropic’s highest tier. Today’s release upgrades Claude’s…
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X expands its ‘Gametime’ sports hub beyond the NFL, starting with MLB
X is doubling down on sports, with Wednesday’s news that it’s expanding its “Gametime” feature on the social media site to go beyond tracking the NFL alone. First announced in August, NFL Gametime is X’s new project that offers a single hub for tracking live scores, getting play-by-play updates, tuning into game feeds, and more. The move wasn’t meant to be useful only to X users who like to congregate on the platform to…
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IA
Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files
With features powered by ‘Hybrid Intelligence,’ Copilot can use files on your Windows PC to take actions. With features powered by ‘Hybrid Intelligence,’ Copilot can use files on your Windows PC to take actions. At today’s Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It’s part of an…
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IA
ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface
ChatGPT is about to get a lot more visual, thanks to a new feature that OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. The new interface, which is being rolled out Wednesday with a new GPT-6 model, will integrate a significant amount of visuals into users’ conversations. OpenAI says many of those visuals will be interactive. In other words, instead of just flat, cartoonish pictures, the chatbot will frequently include things like tappable buttons, a customized calculator for…
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IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives
By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE. “We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic, chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee’s Industry Advisory Board, the group responsible for the report. “Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in a vacuum;…
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The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day
Until the end of Amazon’s October sale later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for just $297.49 (usually $349.99) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. While the lenses and displays aren’t quite as sharp as the Quest 3, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is a much more reasonable price for casual VR gaming and movies. In other words, it’s a big upgrade over the Quest 2. You’ll also…
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IT & Science & Technology
How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor
Inside the labs where Microsoft tortures laptops until they’re ready to ship. Inside the labs where Microsoft tortures laptops until they’re ready to ship. Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to put the device through its paces. That all happens inside a windowless, warehouse-like lab on the company’s Redmond, Washington, campus, where the team developing Surface devices programs robots to press their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with radio…
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IA
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In a press release Tuesday, the US Department of Justice said that Smith is the first American criminally charged with AI-assisted streaming fraud. First charged in 2024, Smith successfully ran the scheme for seven years without detection. Starting in 2017,…
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What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong
Spoiler alert: The Facebook Files are still more interesting than Aaron Sorkin’s new thriller. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Spoiler alert: The Facebook Files are still more interesting than Aaron Sorkin’s new thriller. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair,…
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Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl, along with some Monday Night Football games
It's been over 20 years since the Disney-owned ABC has aired a Super Bowl game, but that changes on February 14. ABC will run the broadcast live, along with ESPN. However, it has just been announced that it'll also stream on Disney+. This should make it easy for just about anyone to tune in, as the livestream will be available in 55 global markets. The platform will air the event in both English and…
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Apps & Logiciels
Hands-on: Sonos Ace Ultra fix nearly everything I wanted from the original [Video]
I have been a huge Sonos fan and customer for years, dating back to the original Sonos One. So, about two years ago, when I heard that Sonos was entering the over-ear headphone market, I knew I had to give it a try. The Sonos Ace looked great, was very comfortable, and brought some cool Sonos ecosystem features. But for a premium pair of headphones, there were still a few areas that left me…
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Microsoft may have finally fixed Windows search by turning it into a chatbot
Less than a year after it promised to remove unnecessary Copilot integration from Windows 11, Microsoft announced today that it plans to turn part of the operating system's Task Bar into a sort of chatbot. Starting this fall, the Search Menu will allow you to carry out thousands of different actions across Windows just by typing short commands into its interface. During the company's fall Surface event, Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive vice president of…
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IA
Microsoft veut faire tourner des IA géantes sur PC : prévoyez jusqu’à 60 Go de RAM
Microsoft veut faire tourner de gros modèles d’IA directement sur les PC Windows, et l’a montré ce mercredi 7 octobre, lors de son événement Windows et Surface, largement consacré aux agents IA. Microsoft appelle ça « l’intelligence hybride ». Le modèle local traite ce qu’il peut, et le système bascule vers le cloud (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) quand la tâche l’exige. Selon l’entreprise, ses clients veulent surtout tirer le meilleur parti de leurs budgets…
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Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft is finally sharing details about its first builder-class PC. Earlier this year, Microsoft teased the Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as "the most powerful thing we've ever made." And while we know some details about it including its super bright MiniLED display and NVIDIA RTX Spark chip, other specs have been hard to come by. But today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft finally gave us a closer look at its upcoming…
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