Mark Hachman
@markhachman
PCWorld tech reporter, splitting time between PC tech, chips, and Microsoft. Nerd, college football and MLB fan, Domer. I like puns.
I have no problem with people buying ICE cars because of the VROOM VROOM but this is egregious
Microsoft Windows 11's Paint's AI slop generator still stuck in AI 1.0.
Air quality (AQI) for the World Cup final in East Rutherford area, New Jersey.
In a weird weird twist, AI art pioneer Midjourney is making a full-body Midjourney Scanner to replace MRIs and an actual Midjourney Spa near the Apple Store in SF by the end of 2027.
The thing you don't really realize until you attend a graduation for your kids is how much you'll miss the friends they grew up with, too. Their journey continues, but you'll only hear about it secondhand.
Microsoft is launching Autopilots, which are "long running" agents, mainly for enterprises, with automations, "personalities," connectors, skills and more. The first is "Scout." It's for the frontier tier of Copilot, first.
Jensen:" For every generation we will have a laptop, a desktop, a workstation."
DGX Stations for Windows on the left. 20 petaflops. 768GB of memory (how much is that going to cost???)
Jensen Huang announces RTX Spark, a Windows platform for agents. Welcome to your next Windows on Arm platform for PCs.
Jensen: We're going to reinvent the PC. He's going to talk to Satya tomorrow night.
To be fair, 10 instructions per clock is pretty damn impressive. Nvidia's Vera agentic CPU.
Google is announcing "audio glasses" that put Gemini in your ear. Coming this fall. #googleio
They put one of these in the Bay Area today. Note how you end up driving on the left.
Somewhere in Hollywood is the Master Dictionary, and movie producers must choose names from the list because Americans are too dumb to remember multiword titles.
While it's amazing that PCWorld still has an archive of print issues in our office (dating back to 1983) it's more amazing that we have some of the the bagged issues with disks, too.
The grandson of Wonderful Terrific Monds (pictured below, Wikipedia) is Wonderful Monds IV, and he has committed to Notre Dame. If I'm a sportswriter I am SALIVATING
Framework has Oculink running on a Framework Laptop 16 here at the launch.
Framework also has a new wireless keyboard, with four inputs. Looks like a Surface model. (It's not.) Open source keyboard firmware (ZMK), with CAD files as well. Keyboard logic board is being sold on its marketplace, just like its laptop mainboards. Coming soon in 2026. No price given on stage.
No OLED panel on this new Framework Laptop Pro(just LCD) but it's a touch panel with 120Hz and a whopping 700 nits for outside work. Redesigned keyboard, and Dolby Atmos.