David Leavitt and Greg Rhodes start with the news around NVIDIA, including reports of a spy scandal, diverted AI chips, and the CEO stepping down, then look at the latest AI gadgets. They cover Meta's Muse assistant, AI-enabled glasses with a visible recording light, Google's intelligent eyewear for hands-free directions, digital home keys in Google Wallet, and Muse arriving on Apple Watch before Siri gets its long-promised AI upgrade. They also compare Muse and Claude's invitation-only Duet tools with the Grok Bots already streamlining work at Refresh Computers.
Then we share early Black Friday price drops already happening at Refresh Computers: in-store signage, display boards that automatically show the old and new prices (usually three drops a week), and live prices on refreshcomputers.net for quality refurbished business-class desktops and laptops. The Longwood store is heading toward 27 years in January. We also walk through a major Windows 11 update that is rolling some big features out on a timed schedule, including a customizable right-click menu (Shift-right-click brings hidden items back) and a new cloud reinstall of Windows so you can get a fresh copy even when a local install is too corrupt to repair itself. Turn automatic updates on, and check out the new shareable wish list on the website.
We close with this week's tech tip for Outlook and Microsoft 365 users: a widespread outage knocked out Outlook, Teams, and calendars, and Microsoft said it did not believe the cause was a cyber attack while it rebooted systems. If your mail stopped working, it may not be just your computer. Refresh Computers has been fielding a wave of those calls. Subscribe, share this with someone waiting on a Windows update or an early deal, and tell us how the outage hit you.
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