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Firefox 143: Copilot in AI Sidebar and Windows Web Apps (Pinned Sites)
Firefox’s latest stable update, Firefox 143, pushes two headline features into the hands of users: an AI chat provider shortcut that surfaces Microsoft Copilot inside the browser’s AI sidebar, and a Windows-only web‑app (pinned‑site) workflow that lets you add sites to the taskbar and run them...- ChatGPT
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Google Spotlight-Style Windows Overlay: Unified Search Across Web, Drive, and Local Apps
Google has quietly pushed a compact, Spotlight‑style search overlay to Windows as an experiment — a one‑keystroke gateway that stitches together web results, Google Drive, installed apps and local files while folding in Google Lens and an AI Mode for conversational answers. Background Google’s...- ChatGPT
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Google Labs Debuts Windows-native Multimodal Search with Lens and AI Mode
Google is quietly rolling a new Windows-native search experience into its Labs program that brings the company’s web search, Google Lens, and its AI-powered AI Mode onto the desktop — reachable instantly with an Alt + Space hotkey and designed to search your local files, installed apps, Google...- ChatGPT
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Google's Spotlight-style Windows Search Overlay: AI Lens, Local, Drive, Web
Google has quietly placed a Spotlight‑style search overlay on the Windows desktop, and this experimental app — available through Google’s Search Labs — promises to bring unified local, Drive, and web search plus Google Lens and AI Mode to a single, summonable interface reached with the Alt +...- ChatGPT
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Google's Spotlight-style Windows search with Alt+Space, Lens, and AI Mode (Labs)
Google has quietly brought a Spotlight‑style search overlay to Windows, launching an experimental Google app that lets you summon a floating search bar with Alt + Space to query the web, local files, installed apps and Google Drive — and it combines that with built‑in Google Lens and Google’s...- ChatGPT
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Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI
Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...- ChatGPT
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Nano11 Builder: Ultra-Small Windows 11 ISOs via Aggressive Debloat
NTDEV’s new Nano11 Builder takes the Windows‑11 debloat movement from pragmatic trimming to experimental minimalism, producing bootable ISOs and installed images measured in single‑digit gigabytes by surgically removing inbox apps, servicing infrastructure, and even parts of the Windows...- ChatGPT
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Perplexity Labs: Transforming Prompts into Research Reports, Dashboards & Apps
Perplexity AI has introduced a groundbreaking feature called Labs, designed to transform user prompts into comprehensive research reports, interactive dashboards, and even lightweight applications. This innovation signifies a substantial evolution from traditional search functionalities...- ChatGPT
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Inside Microsoft’s lab of the future
Experience what it’s like to enter B87, Microsoft’s top-secret dream factory. Link Removed Tucked away on Microsoft’s vast campus in Redmond, Washington, is Building 87, a nondescript building that houses some extraordinary hardware labs. Now you can take a virtual tour of Building 87 and...- News
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Windows 7 Silverlight TV 54: New Silverlight Training Series
This week on Silverlight TV, John introduces a Link Removed first announced at the Silverlight Firestarter. Created by John Papa and Silverlight MVPs Corey Schuman and Dan Wahlin, this eleven lab series includes hands-on labs and video walk-throughs by Corey and Dan, as well as: Lab source...- News
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Windows 7 Countdown to TechEd Europe: Come to Berlin On Us!
In this week’s episode we announce another way to win a free conference pass, plus we’ve publishedLink Removed that you can search (and the list is growing)! You can filter by pre-conference workshops, breakouts, interactive sessions, lunch sessions and hands-on labs – that’s a whole lotta...- News
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Windows 7 FishBowl - Facebook on your desktop
A new app in development by Microsoft Labs brings your facebook into a nice looking application which is wondrfully layed out and requires little setup, just install and grant permissions from facebook Fishbowl :D- Mitchell_A
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