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Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates - The Verge

Microsoft still hasn’t officially confirmed the existence of its rumored Windows Lite operating system, but the software giant is dropping some pretty big hints about the future of Windows today. Nick Parker, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of consumer and device sales, appeared on stage at Computex today to detail the company’s vision for a modern operating system. While Parker didn’t unveil Windows Lite, a rumored lightweight version of Windows for dual-screen and Chromebook-like devices, he did reveal how Microsoft is preparing for new device types.

These new devices will require what Microsoft calls a “modern OS,” that includes a bunch of “enablers” like seamless updates. We’ve seen various promises about Windows Updates being improved over the years, but Microsoft is now promising that “modern OS updates are invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions!” No interruptions and done in the background sounds very different from the Windows Update experience available on Windows 10 today, and it sounds far more Chrome OS-like.

This “modern OS” is also secure by default according to Microsoft, meaning the state is separated from the OS and compute is “separated from applications,” which sounds a lot more cloud-powered than what we’re used to today. Microsoft also wants this modern OS to work with 5G connectivity, and to include a variety of inputs like pen, voice, touch, even gaze.

Perhaps the most telling part of Microsoft’s Computex blog post is that the entire paragraph describing this “modern OS” never mentions Windows. “These enablers and delighters underpin our vision for a Modern OS, they will provide the foundational elements for an evolution of the PC ecosystem and enable partners to deliver the more human-centric experiences of tomorrow,” explains Parker.

Some of these hints at a modern OS could already apply to Windows as it exists today, but Microsoft also describes its focus on “enabling cloud-connected experiences that use the compute power of the cloud to enhance users experiences on their devices” for this modern OS. It’s clear that whatever Microsoft is working on for Windows Lite and beyond, it will involve seamless updates, security improvements, 5G connectivity, cloud-powered apps, new form factors, and AI support. Microsoft chose to bold all these important parts in its paragraph detailing its modern OS future:

These new modern PCs and innovative devices the ecosystem will continue to build and bring to market in the future require a modern operating system. An OS that provides a set of enablers that deliver the foundational experiences customers expect from their devices, and includes a set of delighters that deliver innovative human centric experiences. Enablers include seamless updates – with a modern OS updates are invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions! A modern OS, is also secure by default, the state is separated from the operating system; compute is separated from applications; this protects the user from malicious attacks throughout the device lifecycle. Always connected -with a modern OS Wifi, LTE 5G will just work – and users never have to worry about a deadspot. All of a users devices are aware and connected to each other. A modern OS provides sustained performance, from the moment a user picks up their device – everything is ready to go – without having to worry about the next time the PC needs to be charged. These enablers will satisfy customer’s basic needs, but to truly differentiate we must also delight them. A modern OS does this by enabling cloud-connected experiences that use the compute power of the cloud to enhance users experiences on their devices. These experiences are powered by AI, so a modern OS is aware of what a user is doing tomorrow and helps them get it done, and it enhances applications making them more intelligent. A modern OS is also multi-sense. People can use pen, voice, touch, even gaze – what ever input method a user wants to use works just as well as the keyboard and mouse. Finally, a modern OS provides the ultimate in form factor agility. A modern OS has the right sensor support and posture awareness to enable the breadth of innovative form factors and applications that our partner ecosystem will deliver

Microsoft was rumored to be discussing plans for dual-screen devices and Windows Lite at the company’s Build conference earlier this month. Those plans never materialized, and it did feel like there was a lack of future Windows information at the developer event. Even the next major Windows 10 update, codenamed 19H2, is shrouded in secrecy. Although it’s expected to arrive in October, Microsoft has already publicly started testing a version of Windows 10 it won’t deliver until 2020. We still don’t know what’s coming in the October 2019 update, and it could be a very minor update this time around.

Microsoft’s Windows Lite plans may have been delayed somewhat by the company’s surprise decision to switch to Chromium for the Edge browser. If Windows Lite is more cloud-powered and relies on the browser for a lot more experiences, then a shift to Chromium will have impacted this more modern operating system. For now, Microsoft is only willing to drop hints about what we can expect from the immediate future of Windows.

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2019-05-29 08:43:43Z
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Intel dual-screen gaming laptop prototype Honeycomb Glacier Hands-On at Computex 2019 - Engadget

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MediaTek Announces 7nm 5G With Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPU Coming - AnandTech

Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem. Even more interesting is the fact that the new silicon is the first announced design to employ Arm’s brand-new Cortex-A77 cores and new Mali-G77 GPU that were both announced only two days ago.

The odd thing about today’s announcement is that this seems like a relatively early pre-announcement. MediaTek doesn’t divulge the actual product name of the new SoC nor does it go into detail of the specifications. What is divulged however is that the chipset is built on TSMC’s new 7nm process-node, and integrates MediaTek’s own Helio M70 modem IP.

The M70 modem supports 5G NR in the sub-6GHz spectrum with up to 2x carrier aggregation. The modem supports both standalone as well as non-standalone 5G network architectures. It’s to be noted that we won’t be seeing mmWave from MediaTek this early: In the markets that the company sees the SoC we won’t be seeing mmWave networks deployed for several more years, and in general the US is the odd one out with early mmWave deployments while the rest of the world focuses on sub-6GHz coverage.

The use of Arm’s new Cortex-A77 and Mali-G77 GPU means that the SoC will have the most up-to-date IP at release, something that MediaTek hasn’t been able to achieve in a few generations. Alongside the CPU and GPU, MediaTek will employ its third generation APU design, which uses the company own in-house IP.

Finally, the imaging capabilities of the SoC are said to have been greatly enhanced and now supports 4K60 decode and encode along with 80MP ISP capability.

We don’t know a lot more about the SoC, and exactly what product category its targeting, but we expect MediaTek to still largely target the mid-range. We should be seeing devices with the new SoC released in 2020.

Intel's gaming laptop prototype is a dual-screen PC with a point - Engadget

Intel's Open House event at Computex was filled with Project Athena devices, prototype demos, new chips and more, but the company's dual-screen prototypes were the ones that drew the crowds. Its new Honeycomb Glacier form-factor concept is for some of the most discriminating (and most PC buying-inclined) customers: gamers and creators.

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ASUS might have beaten the chipmaker to the punch with its ZenBook Pro Duo -- and that's here, too -- but Intel's own design was arguably a better sales pitch for dual-screen laptops.

So let's take a look at this laptop. Yes, despite what it looks like unfolded, this is still a laptop. The prototype design has a dual-display setup made of a primary 15.6-inch screen, at full HD resolution, and a 12.3-inch display at half the vertical height. Like the ZenBook Pro Duo, the full-width companion screen is above the keyboard. However, Intel's reference design has a more considered feel, attempting to reframe the design of powerful laptops.

I was a little obsessed with those hinges and how it transforms your display location without the need for an awkward stand or secondary keyboard. From closed, the screen neatly opens up like your usual laptop. However, the primary screen then tilts upwards, at any degree you like, pulling the secondary screen along with it. It'll then stay at whatever position you pull it to, with a subtle button on the hinge for unlatching and closing. It's already surprisingly well-finished for a mere prototype.

But, and if you've read about Intel concept devices before, you might agree -- so what? Concept models and display designs often struggle to convey their reasons for existing. With this Honeycomb Glacier concept, I'd say Intel has less of a problem.

The elevated screen brings everything up to the perfect eye height -- think iMacs and other all-in-one PCs, making it a comfortable fit for activities that need a lot of attention, like video editing, writing or gaming. My mediocre efforts playing League of Legends were hampered more by the trackpad without buttons than what I was looking at. Even at a trade-show, the screen positioning seemed spot-on, and less like I was playing awkwardly on a laptop.

Even at this prototype stage, this machine could certainly handle something a little heavier. Inside there's an overclocked 45W Core i9 processor as well as an NVIDIA GTX 1070. Under the hinge, a giant circular vent pulls air across the device, with further vents dotted around the sides of the base. It means Intel can keep its processors running overclocked and tap into some secondary benefits of that elevated screen.

Look a little lower and the 12.3-inch companion screen is just that -- a companion to the main event. You could keep your Slack chat app open while you focus on tasks, monitor your gameplay stats while fighting away on LoL or monitor Twitch chatter as you stream. Because it's also propped up, unlike the ZenBook Pro Duo, it's easier to casually scan -- it's already in your field of view.

That brings me conveniently to the next marquee idea, here: relevant Tobii eye-tracking. We've covered Tobii tracking before, but unfortunately, it's either been gimmicky or simply rarely used. The hinge that acts as a seam between the two displays is perfect for the cameras and sensors, and they neatly line the center of the hinge, conveniently at eye level.

Perhaps in part due to that, Tobii's interface was working with only minor hiccups even during this early demo and amid the Intel press scrum chaos. As I shifted my focus downwards, the secondary screen automatically drew keyboard input to shrunken (but fully featured) apps. If the companies involved can make it even more reliable, then this could be perfect for instant Slack responses or replying to commenters during your YouTube livestream. You can even draw your eyes to Cortana, and it'll start listening to your requests. It's a little uncanny.

This might be the most interesting, most achievable Intel prototype I've seen in recent memory. At this formative stage, too, Intel (and whichever PC company bites at the idea: Acer, maybe ASUS?) has ample time to ensure it is ready for prime time. Some little issues need addressing: Why aren't there buttons on the unusually vertical trackpad? And the eye-tracking software really has to nail its reliability problem.

With two screens, considered design and specifications similar if not exceeding what we're playing with in Taipei, the potential for a powerful new laptop format is rather exciting. And for Intel, it might be less of a hard sell to demanding PC shoppers. The company is speaking a lot of sense -- and companies are very much interested. Following on the heels of ASUS and HP, Dell announced today that it was also working on its own dual-screen devices. M

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2019-05-29 05:47:51Z
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Leaked iOS 13 screenshots reveal new dark mode and updated apps - The Verge

Apple is due to hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote next Monday, but we’re already getting an early look at what the company will likely announce. 9to5Mac has obtained screenshots of iOS 13, and they show the new dark mode that Apple is rumored to be including. The dark mode appears to work across the dock in apps like Music and even in the built-in screenshot tool. Apple will reportedly include a switch in the Control Center or within the main iOS Settings page.

Apple’s Reminders app for iOS 13 also appears to be getting overhauled in the company’s next operating system update. The Reminders app now has separate sections for today, scheduled, flagged, and all, and you can also search through existing reminders. Apple is also reportedly combining its Find my Friends and Find my iPhone apps into a single “Find My” app, which will likely be revealed next week at WWDC.

iOS 13 is also rumored to include a revamped Health app, updated Maps app, and even native support to use an iPad as a secondary Mac screen. Dark mode will be the most obvious visual change across the iPhone and iPad, though, and it follows months of third-party app developers creating their own dark mode skins for their apps.

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2019-05-28 15:07:49Z
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It's Been Five Years, But Intel's Biggest CPU Yet Is Finally Coming - Gizmodo

The inside of the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. One of the first computers to feature Ice Lake

In a briefing a couple of years ago, a representative for a major laptop maker sat across from me with a huge grin on his face. He had a special mock-up in his bag, and he wanted to show it off. It was a super thin Windows 10 laptop—no fans required, and maybe only 10mm thick. According to the rep, it would be one of the company’s first products supporting Ice Lake, the long in development 10nm family of chips from Intel. He assured me that at the same time the following year, he’d be showing me the real thing.

A year later, the prototype was nowhere to be found. Ice Lake, the new 10th generation of x86 chips Intel announced today, was MIA too. It will be some time before we understand just how dramatically Ice Lake’s many delays affected the laptops you and I use today (and if you know something you can securely tip us via SecureDrop or email me for my Signal number). But if you squint, you can see some good contenders for products that were supposed to be Ice Lake and got shoved out into the market without it. (Hint: Look for expensive, super thin, freshly redesigned devices sporting low-power 5-Watt Y-series CPUs.)

But now Ice Lake is finally just about ready for prime time, and it should make you rethink what a super thin laptop can be.

What is Ice Lake?

Ice Lake is the name 10th generation of processors based on Intel’s new Sunny Cove microarchitecture and expected to be used in nearly every 10th-Gen laptop processor made by Intel. It’s based on a 10nm technology node, which is significantly smaller than the 14nm node Intel has been using since 2014, but larger than the 7nm node used on chips by AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. A smaller node generally means a boost in speed because information doesn’t have to travel as far. It also means better power efficiency because less power is needed to move the information.

Ice Lake isn’t the first 10nm part from Intel. Last year, it dropped a Cannon Lake chip, the i3-8121U based on the previous microarchitecture, Skylake. Gregory Bryant, Senior VP and General Manager of the Client Computing Group, told Gizmodo it was a “low volume production product” and made almost as a way for the company to grow more familiar with working on 10nm itself.

Sunny Cove is a whole new microarchitecture, and Ice Lake is a considerably different chip. (To the point that Intel calls it a 10nm+ part instead of a 10nm part.)

In a phone conversation, Becky Loop, an Intel Fellow and head of the Client Architecture Team said, “Ice Lake was one of the fun, cool ones and the most interesting part of it is it’s where we actually went and changed everything.”

What she means is this was a ground-up overhaul of the CPU. It wasn’t just moving to a new technology node. “We changed the fabric, the chassis. We touched every single IP,” she said.

And yeah, that move was challenging for the company. On the delays to Ice Lake Bryant said, “[W]e took a very challenging goal and a very aggressive scaling goal, even by our own standards, and that just proved to be more difficult, and it proved to take longer.”

What he means is it was delayed, multiple times. Ice Lake was first announced in 2014 and expected for 2016. It didn’t happen. It was, instead, delayed again and again, until late last year when Intel told press it was definitely, positively, finally coming, five years after it was originally announced, and more than three years after it should have been delivered.

But the company seems to think it was worth the challenges and the delay. Intel claims this is easily one of the fastest, most complex, and high performing processors it’s developed.

What’s so great about Ice Lake?

PC manufacturers have told me that that Ice Lake Y-series chips will be just as powerful as the popular U-series part found in the laptops the majority of us use, all while using less battery, and taking up less space.

While it isn’t announcing specific chips and the specs for the chips, Intel claims that its 10th generation chips will have graphics that two times faster (meaning even better framerate in games), wifi that is three times faster, and the ability to handle complex AI-related tasks 2.5 times faster.

Engadget attended a live demo at Computex where Intel showcased the GPU performance of a 10th-Gen U-series chip and pitted it against an 8th-Gen i7-8565U chip. Demos are carefully structured to best highlight whatever a company is trying to highlight, and in this case, it was the 10th-Gen’s GPU performance. That said, the results were impressive: It managed 70 frames per second in CSO: GO at 1080p while the 8th-Gen chip could only average 40fps.

Thunderbolt 3 is now plugged directly into the CPU, so using this port on the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 should give you an even faster experience.

Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 will both also be incorporated directly into the CPU. Loop told me that the Thunderbolt 3 connection would be particularly beneficial to people who regularly make use of external storage because it will significantly reduce latency and allow the CPU to read the files and store them in the CPU’s memory faster.

When do we get Ice Lake?

This one is tricky. Ice Lake is coming this year, but Intel has not yet announced any specific parts or when we’ll see them. Instead, you’ll have to look to Project Athena, the other news Intel is pushing at Computex this year. That suggests we could see them by late summer or early fall. Hopefully. This is Ice Lake we’re talking about. It’s been delayed before—though, a delay now that multiple products have been announced featuring the new chip would be shocking.

Wait, what is Project Athena?

Project Athena is a new series of specs for laptops intended to give us thin, light laptops that are super powerful but also have incredible battery life.

The hope, according to Intel’s Josh Newman, a vice president in the Client Computing Group and one of the people responsible for Project Athena, is to help improve the quality of laptops, and hopefully to reduce prices while also giving people more of the quick and seamless experience we generally associate with phones.

To that end, Intel has outlined general areas of laptop design where it will have exacting standards that laptop makers should meet to be considered in compliance with Project Athena.

On the size front, Project Athena laptops can’t weigh more than 3.3 pounds and can’t be thicker than 15 millimeters (though Intel says it can make some exceptions). The laptop has to connect to the internet just 2 seconds after you open it. It has to last 9 hours on a battery charge in a new typical usage test that includes browsing the web, flipping over to Word, and streaming video.

The battery was of particular focus. Sudha Ganesh, a senior director and engineer working on Project Athena, outlined some of the benchmarks Intel has developed to make our conversations about laptop battery life more honest. Currently, the battery on a laptop is tested by reviewers and laptop makers by setting the brightness of the screen to a specific level then playing back a video, either locally, or over a local streaming service. That’s not how most people use their laptop, though. We do big demanding tasks and then quick, less demanding ones. So the new test is intended to mimic the behavior of a real person by hopping between programs while leaving other programs on in the background.

There’s also a second test to make sure the laptop is consistent when on battery. Right now there’s a tradeoff. You can either have a powerful laptop, or you can have a laptop with great battery life. Better battery life means worse performance and vice versa.

Intel thinks it can solve this problem through components like the 10th-Gen processors. But it also thinks there’s work to be done on the software side—so computers are smarter about how they use the processor and sip the battery, and that work can be done on the design side. In much of our conversation about Project Athena, Newman referred to the laptop makers themselves and how he perceived Project Athena as something of a challenge for them to take on—A way for laptop makers to strive to make better products, not just cheaper ones.

For example, Dell announced a new 13-inch XPS 2-in-1 developed with Intel to be a Project Athena laptop. With a 10th-Gen processor and active cooling, Dell claims the new XPS is 2.5 times faster than the previous generation (with an 8th-Gen processor). Dell also claims it has 16 hours of battery life, which is nearly twice what we usually see from a 13-inch XPS.

But that’s just year one. Newman anticipates Project Athena will be a multi-year initiative, and with each year, laptop makers should get better and the parts hopefully more affordable. So while a Project Athena device right now might cost $1,000, future products could be $700, or even $500.

Again, this is all promise at this point. Intel promises we’ll see the payoff for these years of development soon.

Correction: We previously intimated 10nm is smaller than 7nm. It is not. We’ve corrected the piece to reflected that and regret the error.

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2019-05-28 14:00:00Z
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The Morning After: 10nm Intel CPUs and a useful dual-screen laptop - Engadget

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Ready to catch up on more news from Computex 2019? Intel's new 10th-gen CPUs are here, and ASUS has a dual-screen laptop that just might make the whole concept worthwhile. In other news, a malware-laden laptop sold for $1.3 million, and we're hours away from finding out more about Hideo Kojima's next game Death Stranding.

Now the XPS 15 has a top-mounted webcam, 9th-gen CPUs and OLED.Dell's new XPS 13 2-in-1 is its most stylish laptop yet

Devindra Hardawar called Dell's last XPS 13 revision a "perfect ultraportable," but now there might be something better. It just unveiled an updated 2-in-1 version that has a taller 16:10 aspect ratio screen, more metal than previous XPS cases and a keyboard that feels more responsive than Apple's butterfly keys. Oh, and of course Intel's latest 10th-generation Core CPUs will be inside.

Meet the new generation.Intel finally unveils its long-awaited 10nm Ice Lake CPUs

The heart of the 10th-gen CPUs is Intel's Sunny Cove architecture, which features a quad-core, eight-thread design and speeds up to 4.1GHz. In comparison, the eighth-gen i7-8565U scaled up to 4.6GHz, while the previous i5 and i3 CPUs topped out at 3.9 GHz. With larger cache, 18 percent more instructions per clock (IPC) and massively improved Iris Plus integrated graphics, the new chips will do more even at equivalent clock speeds.

As for other upgrades, the 10th-gen chips will include WiFi 6/802.11ax and Thunderbolt 3 support. While ultraportable laptop designs are the first ones to see these upgrades, the focus on efficient design will be felt elsewhere soon.

Splitting the difference between Touch Bar and a full dual-screen laptop.ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo hands-on

Imagine a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar that expanded down towards the trackpad, pushing the keyboard below it. That's pretty much what the ZenBook Pro Duo's bottom deck looks like: A physical keyboard takes up the bottom half, with a 14-inch wide display sitting above it.

This beast of a machine comes equipped with appropriately powerful guts, like an Intel Core i9 HK chip that's unlocked for overclocking, as well as an NVIDIA RTX 2060 graphics card that supports ray tracing for advanced lighting effects. According to Cherlynn Low, the primary 4K OLED screen was vivid, and its keyboard is still comfortable to use -- even if we don't know how much one of these will cost or when they'll actually be available.

The work of art is meant to give physical form to abstract digital threats.Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million

Bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world's most dangerous malware has closed at $1.345 million. Dubbed "The Persistence of Chaos," the Samsung NC10 contains six viruses that have caused an estimated $95 billion in damages.

Plug in your PC, Switch or even smartphone.ASUS made the world's first 240Hz portable monitor for gamers

The ROG Strix XG17 features a 17.3-inch 1,920 x 1,080 IPS LCD, and it's a high-end affair that offers an adaptive refresh rate up to 240Hz, along with a 3ms response time. It can even run on battery for three hours at 240Hz.

We'll finally know something about Hideo Kojima's first post-Konami game.More 'Death Stranding' details are coming Wednesday night

Kojima Productions has teased a countdown to a Death Stranding announcement on May 29th (May 30th in Japan). Its teaser told fans to "create the rope" -- whatever that means.

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