If you're concerned that your favorite may be subsumed by the growing wave of AI, Vivaldi would like you to know they plan to resist. Vivaldi, the small Norwegian-made browser which I use as an alternative to more mainstream browsers like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, said it plans to "choose humans over hype," in the words of Jon von Tetzchner, the company's chief executive. "We're taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship," von Tetzchner said in a statement, shared by the company. "Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies."

Microsoft is currently testing a new AI feature in Edge called "Journeys," reports Windows Latest. The aim is to create AI-generated summaries and interactive cards of your browsing history and open pages, making it easier to resume projects or continue ongoing tasks. But there's a catch with this feature: it's only available if you have a Copilot Pro subscription, which costs 20 per month. The subscription also provides AI capabilities in other Microsoft apps such as Word, PowerPoint, Paint, and Notepad. When Journeys is activated, an AI model analyzes your browsing activity.

It can be difficult to keep up with all the new artificial intelligence tools. You may even have access to numerous AI features and resources that you haven't had the time to notice. For example, Copilot Vision is now free for everyone to use in Microsoft Edge. That's perhaps not something you've realized if you don't use Edge as your regular browser, or if you've never heard of Copilot Vision. It's an extension of Microsoft's Copilot AI that can essentially'see' what you're looking at on the web.

TTS (Text-to-Speech) document reader from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and OpenAI have been serviced worldwide. They provide relatively good TTS results for general plain text, but sometimes skip contents or provide unsatisfactory results for mathematical expressions. This is because most modern academic papers are written in LaTeX, and when LaTeX formulas are compiled, they are rendered as distinctive text forms within the document. However, traditional TTS document readers output only the text as it is recognized, without considering the mathematical meaning of the formulas. To address this issue, we propose MathReader, which effectively integrates OCR, a fine-tuned T5 model, and TTS. MathReader demonstrated a lower Word Error Rate (WER) than existing TTS document readers, such as Microsoft Edge and Adobe Acrobat, when processing documents containing mathematical formulas. MathReader reduced the WER from 0.510 to 0.281 compared to Microsoft Edge, and from 0.617 to 0.281 compared to Adobe Acrobat. This will significantly contribute to alleviating the inconvenience faced by users who want to listen to documents, especially those who are visually impaired. The code is available at https://github.com/hyeonsieun/MathReader.

Even some of the most elite gamers haven't heard of the term "gaming browser." Even so, most browsers can be set up specifically to accentuate your gaming experience. But is it worth going to all that trouble? Why not just jump on the bandwagon and use Google Chrome instead? A simple glimpse of the features available in Opera GX makes it clear that it's no ordinary browser designed to just surf the web.

Microsoft is beginning to roll out its next feature update of Windows 11, the Windows 11 2024 Update, beginning today. But Microsoft obviously isn't done yet, and it's offering a sneak peek at new Copilot experiences which will debut this fall, including Copilot Voice, Copilot Vision, and Copilot Daily, among others. On the surface, the new additions to Copilot sound similar to multimodal ChatGPT (or GPT-4o) that OpenAI launched earlier this year, where ChatGPT can now "see" and an Advanced Voice feature means that you can have conversations with it. But there are some key differences between what Microsoft and OpenAI are offering, and only some of Microsoft's Copilot innovations will be available right away. It's probably safe to say, though, that Copilot Voice will be the most important addition -- and Copilot Vision may not be.

Microsoft is planning to either add subtitles or even dub video produced by major video sites, using AI to translate the audio into foreign languages within Microsoft Edge in real time. At its Microsoft Build developer conference, Microsoft named several sites that would benefit from the new real-time translation capabilities within Edge, including Reuters, CNBC News, Bloomberg, and Coursera, plus Microsoft's own LinkedIn. Interestingly, Microsoft also named Google's YouTube as a beneficiary of the translation capabilities. YouTube does not offer dubbed audio.) Microsoft plans to translate the video from Spanish to English and from English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. There are plans to add additional languages and video platforms in the future, Microsoft said.

Spring is here and that means weeding, cleaning, packing away winter clothes… and tuning up your PC! Optimizing your PC's performance isn't as complicated as it sounds, however. Just a few tweaks here and there and you'll have your computer running faster than ever. Improving your PC's efficiency can take a little effort, though some processes can be automated. Your PC is like a Roomba in that streamlining your laptop or desktop often happens when you're not looking. Below, we've listed several ways to improve the responsiveness and overall speed of your PC and to preserve its longevity, too.

To fight what it considers to be unfair gatekeeping of its browser, Vivaldi said that it's masquerading as Microsoft Edge to enable users to gain access to Bing Chat. The new Vivaldi 6.1 update tells websites that it's actually Microsoft Edge, using what it calls Client Hints. Vivaldi has used this technology before, identifying itself as Google Chrome, to try and accomplish the same task. Now, the company says, some websites are seeing through its mask and blocking Vivaldi regardless. If you access Bing's AI-powered Chat feature on Edge, the browser allows you to converse with Microsoft's AI chatbot.

There are vanishingly few places in Microsoft's business ecosystem that remain untouched by January's OpenAI deal, with GPT-4 backed chatbot and generative capabilities coming to Office products like Word and Excel, Bing Search, and integrated directly into the Edge browser. During the Microsoft Build 2023 conference on Tuesday, company executives clarified and confirmed that its 365 Copilot AI -- the same one going into Office -- will be "natively integrated" into the Edge browser. Microsoft 365 Copilot essentially takes all of your Graph information -- data from your Calendar, Word docs, emails and chat logs -- and smashes them together, using the informatic slurry in training an array of large language models, to provide AI-backed assistance personalized to your business. "You can type natural language requests like'Tell my team how we updated the product strategy today,'" Lindsay Kubasik, Group Product Manager, Edge Enterprise wrote in a Tuesday blog post. "Microsoft 365 Copilot will generate a status update based on the morning's meetings, emails and chat threads."