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Lenovo Adds Free Stereoscopic 3D Gaming Mode to Legion Glasses 2—Over 20 Titles at Launch
A free software update landing later this year for Lenovo’s Legion Glasses 2 will automatically convert over 20 standard 2D PC games into stereoscopic 3D, the company revealed at IFA 2025. The...
Microsoft's Hollow-Core Fiber Smashes Attenuation Record at 0.091 dB/km, Promises 47% Faster Data Transmission
Researchers at Microsoft Azure's Fibre R&D lab, collaborating with the University of Southampton and spin-out Lumenisity, have demonstrated a hollow-core optical fiber with a record-low...
NFL’s AI Revolution: Microsoft Copilot on Every Sideline as Rams’ McVay Chases Margins
The National Football League is placing an AI copilot on every sideline this season, and Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is betting it will sharpen his team’s split‑second decisions. A...
Azure AI Foundry's GPT-5 Launch Promises Up to 60% Cost Savings for Startup AI Apps
Microsoft has officially brought GPT-5 to Azure AI Foundry, delivering the latest frontier model not as a single monolithic engine but as a family of purpose-tuned variants orchestrated by a built-in...
Microsoft's GPT-Realtime Model Hits General Availability on Azure AI Foundry with 20% Lower Pricing
Microsoft has pushed gpt-realtime, a speech-to-speech model designed for low-latency, natural-sounding conversational agents, into general availability on Azure AI Foundry. The release, accessible...
Microsoft Activates Austrian Data Residency: Copilot, Teams, and Exchange Now Stored Locally
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a trio of data-residency controls for its Austrian commercial customers, pairing the long-awaited Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) add-on and Multi-Geo...
AWS Pours $7.5 Billion Into New Zealand Cloud Region as Q2 Revenue Hits $30.9B
Amazon Web Services reported $30.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2025, an 18% year-over-year increase, while simultaneously announcing a NZ$7.5 billion commitment to build its first...
Microsoft Hollow-Core Fiber Hits 0.091 dB/km Attenuation, Targets 15,000 km Azure Backbone
Microsoft has shattered optical fiber records with a hollow-core design achieving 0.091 dB/km attenuation at 1,550 nm—a figure that undercuts the physical limits of conventional silica glass—and...
0.091 dB/km: Microsoft’s Hollow Core Fiber Breakthrough Rewrites the Rules of Optical Networking
Microsoft and the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre have shattered a decades-old attenuation barrier in fiber optics, revealing a hollow-core fiber design that posts a...
Microsoft’s Hidden Power Plan Eliminates Micro-Latency on Windows Workstations — Here’s How to Enable It Safely
A concealed power profile buried inside Windows 10 and Windows 11 can slash micro-latency by ruthlessly disabling energy-saving features. Known as the Ultimate Performance power plan, it first...
Microsoft's MAI Models: The First-Party AI Push to Outgrow OpenAI
Microsoft has deployed two first-party AI models — MAI-Voice-1 for speech generation and MAI-1-preview as a consumer-focused foundation model — marking a deliberate strategic shift away from...
Inside Windows' Hidden Ultimate Performance Power Plan: How It Works, When to Use It, and Why It's Not for Everyone
Microsoft’s most aggressive power plan has been sitting in Windows for years, but for the vast majority of users, enabling it would be a mistake. Introduced in 2018 alongside Windows 10 Pro for...