Earlier this week, Intel released a graphics driver update that according to the chipmaker, boosts graphics performance by up to 30% for devices with 4th generation Haswell processors, in addition to ...

Work continues for the Vibrant Visuals update to come to Minecraft Java, and as part of that they're switching the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan. Announced today (February 18th) by Mojang developers ...

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When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...

Samus' latest adventure takes full advantage of the Nintendo Switch 2's hardware, offering different options when it comes to all the Metroid Prime 4 graphics modes. Depending on your preferences, TV, ...

Hackers are using AI agents to outsmart old logins. It’s time to ditch passwords and move to phishing-proof credentials like passkeys. For years, organizations have relied on passwords and ...

In a significant step toward more autonomous AI, Microsoft today unveiled a major upgrade for its Researcher agent within Microsoft 365 Copilot. The company has added a “Computer Use” feature which ...

Microsoft is updating the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot with a new "Computer Use" capability to move beyond public web searches. Back in June, Microsoft announced the new Researcher agent ...

Microsoft is expanding what its Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can do. The company announced a new Computer Use feature that allows Researcher to perform hands-on tasks inside a secure ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform. The news that the .NET UI framework Uno Platform project ...

Computer-use agents (a.k.a. GUI agents) are vision-language models that observe the screen, ground UI elements, and execute bounded UI actions (click, type, scroll, key-combos) to complete tasks in ...