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In the olden times, technology constantly blew people's mind. Like, fire make warm and cook meat?

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Now, computer pretty much alive and soon cook me.

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But not this me! Microsoft continues to herald its AI future by secretly putting an AI-assisted super resolution

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feature in Windows 11. The tool was first discovered on Twitter by a user at Phantom of Earth,

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who posted screenshots from the 26052 preview build of Windows. Of course,

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since this was a hidden feature added by Microsoft, not just anyone could find it.

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You need to use an external tool to enable it.

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The feature can be used to make supported games play more smoothly with enhanced details.

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But seems to also work with native Windows apps and even

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windowed games, meaning it could potentially support older titles. According to Tom's hardware,

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your system needs a GPU with tensor cores or a processor with an NPU. But that's all part of

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Microsoft's AI future. Starting this summer, AI processors will become standard for Windows PCs

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as part of the major OS overhaul everyone thought would be Windows 12, but is allegedly just an

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update to Windows 11 called 24H2, starring Kiefer Sutherland. The International Data Corporation

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forecast 60% of PC shipments will be AI PCs within the next three years.

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So it sounds like Microsoft will get their dream of a future full of hundreds of AI products

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all named co-pilot. There's only one pilot. There are many co-pilots. AMD was secretly funding

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a project to make CUDA compatible with Radeon cards for two years. Now, that project is open

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developer Andre Yannick originally created Zluda to enable CUDA support on Intel hardware,

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but team red reached out to him after he abandoned it to see if he could adapt it to work on their

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graphics software stack. Now, apparently Radeon cards can run unmodified CUDA code,

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i.e CUDA enabled software can run on AMD GPUs without any input from the software's developers.

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Not only does Zluda love it, work on both Windows and GNU slash Linux,

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but as mentioned up top, it's now fully open source. AMD decided to stop funding Yannick's

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development and due to a clause in his contract, that meant he could fos the hell out of it.

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While the software shows promise, there are some caveats. We can't have anything nice.

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For example, code for NVIDIA optics, also known as Team Green's ray tracing API,

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but it does allow Radeon GPUs to run native CUDA code in Blender 4.0 faster than AMD's own

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Radeon HIP code. Some people say AHIP, I say HIP, leading to quicker rendering.

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Yannick hasn't necessarily re-abandoned the project, but says without financial backing,

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he will only work on improvements he is personally invested in. He's fully self-actualized.

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Fortunately, that includes getting DLSS working on Radeon GPUs. Zluda's code is all on GitHub,

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so if you want to contribute, get forking started. If you get that joke, I'm so proud of you.

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Young Zluda is my rap name. Zluda! Yeah! Apple has apparently decided to settle the lawsuit it

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brought against chip startup Reavos two years ago. The Cupertino crew, who wrote this, initially

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alleged that Reavos led a coordinated campaign to recruit Apple's chip designers and instructed

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the poached employees to steal trade secrets on their way out the door, though the trade secrets

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claim was actually dismissed a year later. According to filings, the settlement will allow

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Apple to conduct a forensic examination of Reavos systems to recover any confidential information.

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Speaking of in-depth analysis, iFixit has published part two of their Vision Pro Teardown,

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where they discussed the actual display resolution of the device. Turns out,

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the horizontal resolution falls a bit short of the 4K standard, explaining why Apple didn't

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refer to their panels as 4K. Plus, the average pixels per degree is 34, like me. While that's

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great in terms of modern headsets, it's almost one-third the PPD of an iPhone 15 Pro Max held

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one foot away from your face, like me. This may help explain why Mark Gurman thinks it could kill

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the iPad as Apple's Mac replacement in several years. According to some of the device's designers,

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it'll take four generations for the device to reach its ideal form. I'm guessing that's the

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one where it's actually worth what they're charging for it. When it comes to brightening my day,

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I always think of one thing. The sun! Ha! If I were to think of two things, the second thing would be

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quick bits. According to reports, Xbox Head Phil Spencer, the whole head, had an internal town

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hall last week where he told employees they would keep making consoles. And that's great news,

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because it means the new reports that Microsoft Surface Team is going to be developing the next

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Xbox devices could be legitimate. Specifically, Xbox Insider Mag claims there will be two next-gen

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Xbox devices, but only one will be a traditional console. The other will be a dockable handheld

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that can both stream games from the cloud and run games locally. Pretty soon, you'll be able to

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verbally berate eight-year-olds from the comfort of a coffee shop, where they're not allowed.

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NVIDIA has launched a new workstation GPU with the unusual name RTX 2000 A to generation. Not to

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be confused with the RTX 20 series of gaming GPUs, nor the RTX A2000, which this card is replacing.

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Is that clear? NVIDIA's confusing decisions continue in the specs. The new card's interface

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is limited to PCIe 4.0 x8 instead of x16. And while memory has been bumped to 16 gigabytes,

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its interface was downgraded from 192 to just 128-bit bus for a 22% lower memory bandwidth overall.

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But at $625, the RTX 2000 A to generation is also 22% more expensive than the RTX A2000

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when it was launched. So the math is perfectly aligned with what we've come to expect here.

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Ten days ago, Google announced that YouTube had hit over 100 million premium subscribers,

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and now Google One has reached the same milestone, possibly indicating that the Venn diagram of Google

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users willing to pay for an additional cloud storage and to get rid of ads is just a circle.

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100 million might sound like a lot, but it's nothing compared to Apple's billion-plus paid

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subscribers for Apple Music, Apple One, and iCloud Plus. Honestly, it's kind of weird knowing that

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YouTube Premium has fewer subscribers than MrBeast. Engineers at MIT have created a stamp-sized sticker

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that monitors the health of a patient's internal organs using ultrasound, or at least it does in

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rats. Ultra rats. Just joking. But humans, much like ultra rats, have organs inside their bodies,

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so it's still pretty exciting. This small, wearable ultrasound would allow continuous monitoring,

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meaning it could catch sudden changes in a transplant patient's condition before it's too late,

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especially if they are rodent of some kind. They are so smart. Humans? No, the rats. They figure this out.

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And this year's Super Bowl ads were full of AI! Yeah! Several companies decided to shell out

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for NFL spots to show off their new fancy software. Microsoft talked about co-pilot for the 17,000th

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time. Google showed off an accessibility feature to help the visually impaired take selfies,

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and Etsy demonstrated how you can buy cheese for the French. They don't need our cheese.

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Coca-Cola took a slightly different tactic by parodying the infamous AI-generated beer commercial

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to advertise their new sports drink has no artificial sweeteners because nothing in sport

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should be artificial. Everything should be natural, except the amount of head drama.

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Actually, it's probably natural. It's paranormal, actually. The ghost in the helmet.

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And it's only para-natural for you to come back on Wednesday for more tech news. It comes in

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multiple flavors. Just lick your screen and find them all. No, don't. What? Do it.