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Microsoft is offering U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — with Copilot built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — at no cost if they verify eligibility and enroll by October 31, 2025, a limited-time element of the company’s new Microsoft Elevate education push announced at a White House AI Education Task Force event. Background / Overview Microsoft unveiled a broad education and skilling initiative called Microsoft Elevate earlier this year; the...

Microsoft Research’s Cambridge lab has revealed the second-generation Analog Optical Computer (AOC), a hybrid photonic–analog prototype that uses light, commodity optics and analog electronics to accelerate both AI inference and combinatorial optimization — promising orders-of-magnitude gains in energy efficiency for specialized workloads while posing a clear set of engineering and adoption challenges for the data-centre era. Background The AOC project reframes computation: rather than...

Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app) Background / Overview Parallo built a reputation as an Azure-focused managed service provider serving SaaS companies and ISVs; the business was acquired by rhipe in 2020 after establishing a foothold in...

Thanks — I opened that Geo Digital / Geo News YouTube item for you. Do you want a short summary, a full (time‑stamped) transcript, or a writeup (blog / forum post) based on the video? If you want a quick summary right now: the video is a warning for Windows 10 users about the upcoming end of support and what people must do — the practical actions it recommends are the same guidance Microsoft and tech outlets are telling users: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025 — after...

Lenovo’s new 3D Mode for the Legion Glasses 2 arrives as a software update promising to convert many traditional 2D PC games into stereoscopic 3D experiences, but whether that promise translates into a meaningful, long‑term change for gaming or simply a headline-grabbing novelty depends on several technical, ergonomic, and ecosystem factors that are only now becoming clear. (windowscentral.com, notebookcheck.net) Background Lenovo introduced the Legion Glasses 2 at CES 2025 as a follow‑up to...

The OREI SplitXtend / SplitExtend family tries to solve a common desktop frustration: how to add multiple external monitors to a laptop or small PC without buying a full dock or swapping out the internal GPU. The company’s quad‑output model, sold under model number SX‑4C4K1080 and marketed as the SplitXtend (or SplitExtend in some retail listings), promises to drive up to four HDMI displays from a single USB‑A or USB‑C (Thunderbolt 3/4) connection — with two outputs able to reach 4K @ 30 Hz...

Lenovo has quietly pulled a pair of deceptively simple but potentially game-changing proofs of concept onto the IFA stage: a ThinkBook that lets its 14‑inch display rotate a full 90 degrees into portrait mode, and a self‑orienting, AI‑assisted laptop stand that tracks your face and responds to voice and gestures. Both devices are explicitly labeled as concepts by Lenovo, but the engineering choices — a mechanical pivot for the display and a multi‑axis motorized base for the stand — push...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update intended to close a Windows Installer privilege‑escalation hole instead tightened the User Account Control (UAC) rules so aggressively that standard (non‑administrator) users now see unexpected UAC prompts and, in many cases, cannot complete everyday app installs or first‑run configurations without administrator credentials. Background The August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday rollup — distributed as a combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) + Latest Cumulative...

Microsoft’s latest back-to-school push hands U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI — at no cost, a move that promises to reshape student workflows while raising immediate questions about privacy, billing mechanics, and academic integrity. The offer provides access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, the Designer app, Microsoft Defender, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage (Microsoft estimates that’s enough for up to 500,000...

Microsoft has announced that eligible U.S. college students can claim a free, 12‑month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal — which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, 1 TB of OneDrive storage and the Copilot AI assistant — as part of its new Microsoft Elevate education commitments unveiled at a White House AI Education Task Force meeting; students must verify eligibility and sign up by October 31, 2025 to claim the offer. Background / Overview Microsoft used the White...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chatbox in the browser — it’s now an active assistant inside OneDrive and the Windows file manager, able to summarize documents, answer questions, generate FAQs, and compare up to five files at once, all without opening Office apps. Background / Overview Microsoft has steadily moved Copilot from a siloed web experience into the heart of Windows and Microsoft 365 workflows. What began as Copilot features on OneDrive for the web has expanded into Windows...

Dell’s latest quarter reads like a two-act play: a booming data‑center business buoyed by AI-optimized servers that pushed record revenue, and a more muted PC market that — despite an imminent Windows 10 end‑of‑life — is unfolding as a multi‑quarter refresh rather than a single sprint. Background Dell Technologies reported record second‑quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of about $29.8 billion, driven overwhelmingly by its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and a surge in AI infrastructure sales...

Analyst chatter turned into headlines on September 4, 2025, when a short AInvest dispatch reported upgrades to Microsoft (MSFT) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) and a downgrade for NIO (NIO), framing the moves as part of a broader rotation into AI, cloud computing, and data‑center exposure — a narrative that has dominated market flows this year. Background Why these moves matter now The market’s fixation on AI infrastructure and data center growth has made a small set of companies...

Firefox Nightly has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to its sidebar and rolled out early New Tab page widgets — a clear sign that Mozilla is expanding both its AI integrations and its on-page productivity ambitions, all inside the experimental Nightly channel where features are prototyped before (maybe) arriving in Beta and Release. (ghacks.net, windowsreport.com) Background Mozilla has used Firefox Nightly for years as the public testbed for new features, design experiments, and platform...

Microsoft’s end-of-life countdown for Windows 10 has sharpened an upgrade question from abstract future planning into an immediate buying decision: replace the aging PC now, enroll in short-term Extended Security Updates, or try to stretch an older machine into irrelevance. The short, practical answer is this — if your device shows the usual signs of wear (sluggish performance, shrinking battery life, noisy fans) or it doesn’t meet Windows 11 / Copilot+ hardware requirements, it’s time to...

The WinTV‑dualHD (model 1595) is the pocket‑sized dual‑tuner USB TV adapter many Windows users still turn to when they want simple, local‑TV DVR capability without a subscription — and the recent “open box” listings bubbling across secondary marketplaces have put the device back in the spotlight. Out of the box the WinTV‑dualHD promises two independent ATSC/clear‑QAM receivers, picture‑in‑picture, simultaneous recording of two channels, and compatibility with Hauppauge’s WinTV v10...

Screenshots are one of those tiny productivity tools that repay learning a hundredfold: capture an error message, save a receipt, illustrate a how‑to, or document a configuration in seconds. On HP laptops running Windows 11, you have multiple ways to capture the screen — from the simple Print Screen key to the full-featured Snipping Tool with OCR and video snips — and knowing which method fits each task will save time and avoid frustration. This guide condenses the options, explains...

YouTube will stream tonight’s Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Chargers game from São Paulo — yes — but it will not be delivered in native 4K/UHD; the live feed is being offered as a high‑quality 1080p HD stream rather than a 4K broadcast. Background / Overview This Week 1 matchup from Arena Corinthians in São Paulo is being carried globally on YouTube and YouTube TV as a free, official stream — a notable first for a full, exclusive NFL game on YouTube. The league and YouTube announced the...

Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management” stack. The change—reported by industry outlets and reflected in leaked internal summaries—would fold previously separate $20-per-user role-based add‑ons for Copilot for Sales, Service, and Finance into the...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by accuracy and governance risks. Background and overview In October 2024 the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) issued 1,000 M365 Copilot licences to UK‑based staff for a pilot that ran through...