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A solar powered cargo e-bike is coming.

Inga from Norway’s Infinite Mobility is fitted with 160W of semi-flexible solar panels, a 594Wh battery, stepless Enviolo shifter, and 250W motor with 25km/h top speed. It can carry up 250kg (about 551 pounds).

Founder and CEO Moez Jomâa to PV Magazine:

A full day in the sun is enough to fill the battery from zero to full charge. An hour is sufficient for at least 8 km of driving... In our target markets of Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria, the battery can go many months throughout Spring and Summer without recharging from the grid.

Prototypes are being tested right now and it’s expected to go into production starting next month.


<em>A working prototype.</em>

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A working prototype.
Image: Infinite Mobility
The US is already preparing for 6G.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is seeking comment on how the US can support the development of the next generation wireless network. Although it’s a super early procedural step and it feels like we just got 5G, we could be at the halfway mark to a new generation — they tend to launch every decade, and it’s been about five years since 5G began rolling out.


Microsoft’s 2024 Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops

At Microsoft’s big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs.

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Microsoft’s AI upscaling for games on Copilot Plus PCs is limited to specific games.

Another tidbit from the FAQ:

At initial launch, Super Resolution will be available in a limited number of games available through the Xbox app for Windows PC: 7 Days to Die, BeamNG.drive, Borderlands 3, Control, Dark Souls III, Dying Light, The Forest, God of War, Resident Evil 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Skyrim SE, Sons of the Forest, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Unturned, Warframe, and The Witcher 3.

Is that just Microsoft putting its best foot forward, or do games need patched individually?


Election officials are role-playing AI threats to protect democracy

The job has never been harder, and the threats have never been stranger.

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What will Microsoft’s Recall remember?

From the FAQ:

📎“You can select specific apps or websites visited in a supported browser to filter out of your snapshots.”

📎“Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge.”

📎“Recall will not store DRM content.”

📎“Note that Recall does not perform content moderation.”

📎“It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.”


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The MSI Claw is an embarrassment

Every competitor is better, and most of them are cheaper.

Adobe brings its full Creative Cloud suite to Microsoft’s new Copilot Plus laptops.

Native Arm64 versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Firefly, and Express are available starting today, Adobe announced at the Surface event going on in Richmond right now. Illustrator and Premiere Pro won’t be far behind with June arrivals.

New Copilot Plus laptops and tablets with the architecture will be able to run the apps as soon as they arrive.


Photo of stage with Adobe logos at Microsoft Surface event
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Microsoft isn’t gatekeeping real time translation on Windows.

Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”

That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.


The Verge’s 2024 graduation gift guide

We found all sorts of gadgets and goodies to celebrate the class of 2024, from the practical to the poignant.

Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade.

Like many other assistants and AI devices plugged into OpenAI’s latest LLM, Microsoft just announced at today’s Surface event that Copilot will soon be plugged into GPT-4o (and powered by new Surface Plus PCs). They demonstrated the integration by showing Copilot guide a player through Minecraft, using GPT-4o to see and react to what was happening onscreen.


Microsoft exec showing Copilot AI use in Minecraft
Image: Allison Johnson

Sugar’s big twist was more than a gimmick

The Apple TV Plus show’s finale was classic noir with a subtle dash of sci-fi.