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Snapdragon powers new AI experiences on Windows 11, introduces new AR platform At Snapdragon Summit 2022, Qualcomm Technologies outlined its vision to advance mobile computing and revealed technology that will unlock a new generation of AR glasses. Qualcomm Technologies and Microsoft are advancing AI capabilities and transforming modern laptops with the powerful performance, neural processing and industry-leading efficiency of Snapdragon compute platforms. This collaboration on Snapdragon has enabled new AI-accelerated experiences for Windows 11 users, including Windows Studio effects such as Voice Focus, Background Blur, Automatic Framing and Eye Contact. The launch of the Surface Pro 9 5G, featuring the Microsoft SQ3 powered by Snapdragon, highlighted those features. Unlike legacy x86-based solutions, Snapdragon intelligently offloads these computationally intensive tasks to a dedicated AI Engine, freeing the CPU and GPU to deliver better performance and power efficiency. ISV resources like the [ more… ]

RedBit builds custom solutions with Windows 11, Microsoft 365 and more When small businesses come to RedBit Development, they’re looking for help. They’re trying to figure out the best technology to help them reduce costs, increase profits and develop their missions, which in one recent award-winning example involved redirecting perfectly good food onto hungry people’s plates instead of going into a landfill. RedBit – a small business itself with only 17 employees based in Ontario, Canada – responds with big solutions that include custom software, driven by Microsoft technology. Mark Arteaga, who founded RedBit in 2003 and serves as its president, says that a problem he sees with many of his customers is a “mishmash” of ways to share documents, conduct team meetings and handle a multitude of issues as they scale up. Oftentimes, the costs of dealing with that [ more… ]

NVIDIA makes it easier to learn AI skills with resources now on Windows 11 PCs To make it easier for STEM students to learn in-demand artificial intelligence skills, NVIDIA is making it possible for those with Windows 11 PCs to access its AI platform, which has been adopted by universities worldwide. Students studying popular STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines such as computer science, data science, information sciences and economics need access to the same technology used by research and industry: the NVIDIA RAPIDS suite of software, now coming to Windows 11. Powered by NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs – which can do a lot of mathematical operations at once, like cranking through the calculations that are needed for AI – this platform includes open-source software libraries and APIs for GPU-accelerated data science (think data analytics and traditional machine learning). [ more… ]

What’s New in Windows App SDK 1.2 We are excited to announce that Windows App SDK 1.2 is now available! With WinAppSDK 1.2 you can now create widgets for the Windows 11 widget board, use the most modern WinUI controls – including media playback & InfoBadge, and support HDR graphics through the DisplayInformation APIs among other additional features. We have also made several updates to improve platform reliability, stability, and performance to help you create robust, powerful, applications for Windows. Windows App SDK provides a unified set of APIs and tools to help you build beautiful & powerful Windows desktop apps. These APIs and tools can be used in a consistent way by any C++ Win32 or C# .NET app on a broad set of target Windows OS versions. WinAppSDK stays up to date with frequent, OS independent releases and [ more… ]