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We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time, and now the software maker is making it available to all Copilot Plus PCs. Recall, a feature that screenshots almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC, will be available today alongside an improved AI-powered Windows search interface and a new Click to Do feature that’s very similar to Google’s Circle to Search.Recall was originally supposed to launch at the same time as Copilot Plus PCs in June last year, but the feature was delayed following concerns raised by security researchers. Microsoft then planned to start publicly testing Recall in October, but pushed it back again to November to have more time to secure it further. Microsoft has now spent the past 10 months overhauling the security of Recall and making it an opt-in experience that you don’t have to enable if you’re concerned about the privacy implications.The Recall timeline lets you scroll through all the snapshots of your PC. Image: Microsoft“When we introduced Recall, we set out to address a common frustration: picking up where youleft off,“ explains Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft. Recall is designed to improve how you search your PC, but taking snapshots that are categorized so it’s easy to search for vague memories instead of file names.I spent a few weeks testing Recall last year and found it was creepy, clever, and compelling. Technologically it’s a great improvement to the Windows search interface, because it can understand images and content in a much more natural way. But it does create a privacy minefield because you’re suddenly storing a lot more information on your PC usage, and you still need to manage blocked apps and websites carefully.Kevin Beaumont, one of the security researchers that first raised alarm bells over Recall, has been testing the final version recently and found that “Microsoft has made serious efforts to try to secure Recall.” The database is now encrypted, Recall attempts to filter sensitive data by default, and the feature is now an opt-in experience.Beaumont does note that filtering sensitive apps and websites can be hit-and-miss though, and occasionally even buggy. He also says that you can access Recall through a simple four-digit PIN unlock option with Windows Hello, instead of it forcing more secure facial recognition or a fingerprint. Microsoft’s Recall website claims “you must have at least one biometric sign-in option enabled for Windows Hello, either facial recognition or a fingerprint, to launch and use Recall.”The new AI-powered Windows search interface. Image: MicrosoftAlongside Recall, Windows search is also getting some AI improvements on Copilot Plus PCs today. You can now use the File Explorer, Windows search box, or settings with natural language queries. That means instead of searching for file names or specific settings, you can now describe images or documents and get results. If you’re looking for an image of a brown dog you know you have saved somewhere, you can just ask for “brown dog” rather than having to know the file name or date the image was created.Microsoft is also rolling out Click to Do today, which works a lot like Google’s Circle to Search. You activate it by using the Windows key + left mouse click, and it will provide actions for the text or images that are on your screen. This includes summarizing text or being able to quickly remove an object from an image.Click to Do lets you take actions on images and text. Image: MicrosoftRecall, the improved Windows search, and Click to Do will all be available today across all Copilot Plus PCs, but the text actions in Click to Do are currently limited to Qualcomm-powered devices, with AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot Plus PCs getting this feature “in the next few months.” Recall and Click to Do should be available in a variety of languages and regions, but Microsoft says both features won’t be available in EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway until later this year.See More:

You might be wondering whether GenAI is just hype or external noise. I also thought this was hype, and I could sit this one out until the dust cleared. Oh, boy, was I wrong. GenAI has real-world applications. It also generates revenue for companies, so we expect companies to invest heavily in research. Every time a technology disrupts something, the process generally moves through the following phases: denial, anger, and acceptance. The same thing happened when computers were introduced. If we work in the software or hardware field, we might need to use GenAI at some point. In this article, I cover how to power your application with large Language Models (LLMs) and discuss the challenges I faced while setting up LLMs. Let’s get started. 1. Start by defining your use case clearly  Before jumping onto LLM, we should ask ourselves some questions a. What problem will my LLM solve? b. Can my application do without LLMc. Do I have enough resources and compute power to develop and deploy this application? Narrow down your use case and document it. In my case, I was working on a data platform as a service. We had tons of information on wikis, Slack, team channels, etc. We wanted a chatbot to read this information and answer questions on our behalf. The chatbot would answer customer questions and requests on our behalf, and if customers were still unhappy, they would be routed to an Engineer. 2. Choose your model Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash You have two options: Train your model from scratch or use a pre-trained model and build on top of it. The latter would work in most cases unless you have a particular use case. Training your model from scratch will require massive computing power, significant engineering efforts, and costs, among other things. Now, the next question is, which pre-trained model should I choose? You can select a model based on your use case. 1B parameter model has basic knowledge and pattern matching. Use cases can be restaurant reviews. The 10B parameter model has excellent knowledge and can follow instructions like a food order chatbot. A 100B+ parameters model has rich world knowledge and complex reasoning. This can be used as a brainstorming partner. There are many models available, such as Llama and ChatGPT. Once you have a model in place, you can expand on the model. 3. Enhance the model as per your data Once you have a model in place, you can expand on the model. The LLM model is trained on generally available data. We want to train it on our data. Our model needs more context to provide answers. Let’s assume we want to build a restaurant chatbot that answers customer questions. The model does not know information particular to your restaurant. So, we want to provide the model some context. There are many ways we can achieve this. Let’s dive into some of them.  Prompt Engineering Prompt engineering involves augmenting the input prompt with more context during inference time. You provide context in your input quote itself. This is the easiest to do and has no enhancements. But this comes with its disadvantages. You cannot give a large context inside the prompt. There is a limit to the context prompt. Also, you cannot expect the user to always provide full context. The context might be extensive. This is a quick and easy solution, but it has several limitations. Here is a sample prompt engineering. “Classify this reviewI love the movieSentiment: PositiveClassify this reviewI hated the movie.Sentiment: NegativeClassify the movieThe ending was exciting” Reinforced Learning With Human Feedback (RLHF) RLHF Model RLHF is one of the most-used methods for integrating LLM into an application. You provide some contextual data for the model to learn from. Here is the flow it follows: The model takes an action from the action space and observes the state change in the environment as a result of that action. The reward model generated a reward ranking based on the output. The model updates its weight accordingly to maximize the reward and learns iteratively. For instance, in LLM, action is the next word that the LLM generates, and the action space is the dictionary of all possible words and vocabulary. The environment is the text context; the State is the current text in the context window. The above explanation is more like a textbook explanation. Let’s have a look at a real-life example. You want your chatbot to answer questions regarding your wiki documents. Now, you choose a pre-trained model like ChatGPT. Your wikis will be your context data. You can leverage the langchain library to perform RAG. You can Here is a sample code in Python from langchain.document_loaders import WikipediaLoader from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter from langchain.embeddings import OpenAIEmbeddings from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA import os # Set your OpenAI API key os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-openai-key-here" # Step 1: Load Wikipedia documents query = "Alan Turing" wiki_loader = WikipediaLoader(query=query, load_max_docs=3) wiki_docs = wiki_loader.load() # Step 2: Split the text into manageable chunks splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=500, chunk_overlap=100) split_docs = splitter.split_documents(wiki_docs) # Step 3: Embed the chunks into vectors embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings() vector_store = FAISS.from_documents(split_docs, embeddings) # Step 4: Create a retriever retriever = vector_store.as_retriever(search_type="similarity", search_kwargs={"k": 3}) # Step 5: Create a RetrievalQA chain llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model_name="gpt-3.5-turbo") qa_chain = RetrievalQA.from_chain_type( llm=llm, chain_type="stuff", # You can also try "map_reduce" or "refine" retriever=retriever, return_source_documents=True, ) # Step 6: Ask a question question = "What did Alan Turing contribute to computer science?" response = qa_chain(question) # Print the answer print("Answer:", response["result"]) print("\n--- Sources ---") for doc in response["source_documents"]: print(doc.metadata) 4. Evaluate your model Now, you have added RAG to your model. How do you check if your model is behaving correctly? This is not a code where you give some input parameters and receive a fixed output, which you can test against. Since this is a language-based communication, there can be multiple correct answers. But what you can know for sure is whether the answer is incorrect. There are many metrics you can test your model against.  Evaluate manually You can continually evaluate your model manually. For instance, we had integrated a Slack chatbot that was enhanced with RAG using our wikis and Jira. Once we added the chatbot to the Slack channel, we initially shadowed its responses. The clients could not view the responses. Once we gained confidence, we made the chatbot publicly visible to the clients. We evaluated its response manually. But this is a quick and vague approach. You cannot gain confidence from such manual testing. So, the solution is to test against some benchmark, such as ROUGE. Evaluate with ROUGE score.  ROUGE metrics are used for text summarization. Rouge metrics compare the generated summary with reference summaries using different ROUGE metrics. Rouge metrics evaluate the model using recall, precision, and F1 scores. ROUGE metrics come in various types, and poor completion can still result in a good score; hence, we refer to different ROUGE metrics. For some context, a unigram is a single word; a bigram is two words; and an n-gram is N words. ROUGE-1 Recall = Unigram matches/Unigram in referenceROUGE-1 Precision = Unigram matches/Unigram in generated outputROUGE-1 F1 = 2 * (Recall * Precision / (Recall + Precision))ROUGE-2 Recall = Bigram matches/bigram referenceROUGE-2 Precision = Bigram matches / Bigram in generated outputROUGE-2 F1 = 2 * (Recall * Precision / (Recall + Precision))ROUGE-L Recall = Longest common subsequence/Unigram in referenceROUGE-L Precision = Longest common subsequence/Unigram in outputROUGE-L F1 = 2 * (Recall * Precision / (Recall + Precision)) For example, Reference: “It is cold outside.”Generated output: “It is very cold outside.” ROUGE-1 Recall = 4/4 = 1.0ROUGE-1 Precision = 4/5 = 0.8ROUGE-1 F1 = 2 * 0.8/1.8 = 0.89ROUGE-2 Recall = 2/3 = 0.67ROUGE-2 Precision = 2/4 = 0.5ROUGE-2 F1 = 2 * 0.335/1.17 = 0.57ROUGE-L Recall = 2/4 = 0.5ROUGE-L Precision = 2/5 = 0.4ROUGE-L F1 = 2 * 0.335/1.17 = 0.44 Reduce hassle with the external benchmark The ROUGE Score is used to understand how model evaluation works. Other benchmarks exist, like the BLEU Score. However, we cannot practically build the dataset to evaluate our model. We can leverage external libraries to benchmark our models. The most commonly used are the GLUE Benchmark and SuperGLUE Benchmark.  5. Optimize and deploy your model This step might not be crucial, but reducing computing costs and getting faster results is always good. Once your model is ready, you can optimize it to improve performance and reduce memory requirements. We will touch on a few concepts that require more engineering efforts, knowledge, time, and costs. These concepts will help you get acquainted with some techniques. Quantization of the weights Models have parameters, internal variables within a model that are learned from data during training and whose values determine how the model makes predictions. 1 parameter usually requires 24 bytes of processor memory. So, if you choose 1B, parameters will require 24 GB of processor memory. Quantization converts the model weights from higher-precision floating-point numbers to lower-precision floating-point numbers for efficient storage. Changing the storage precision can significantly affect the number of bytes required to store a single value of the weight. The table below illustrates different precisions for storing weights. Pruning Pruning involves removing weights in a model that are less important and have little impact, such as weights equal to or close to zero. Some techniques of pruning are a. Full model retrainingb. PEFT like LoRAc. Post-training. Conclusion To conclude, you can choose a pre-trained model, such as ChatGPT or FLAN-T5, and build on top of it. Building your pre-trained model requires expertise, resources, time, and budget. You can fine-tune it as per your use case if needed. Then, you can use your LLM to power applications and tailor them to your application use case using techniques like RAG. You can evaluate your model against some benchmarks to see if it behaves correctly. You can then deploy your model.  The post A Step-By-Step Guide To Powering Your Application With LLMs appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Havoc, the long-awaited new film from The Raid director Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy, bursts its way onto Netflix. There are tons of other new releases on Netflix alone, including a Japanese action thriller perfect for fans of Unstoppable or Speed. There’s plenty to watch on other streaming services, too, like Babygirl starring Nicole Kidman on Max, The Return on Paramount Plus, My Hero Academia: You’re Next on Crunchyroll, and the sci-fi horror thriller Ash on Shudder. Last but not least, this week’s VOD releases include No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary that’s currently available to rent for a limited time only. Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend! New on Netflix Havoc Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Genre: Action thrillerRun time: 1h 45mDirector: Gareth EvansCast: Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Timothy Olyphant Director Gareth Evans (The Raid, Gangs of London) is back with his first new film in nearly seven years and his first action thriller since 2014’s The Raid 2. Tom Hardy stars as Walker, a police detective who is sent on a perilous mission to rescue the estranged son of a powerful politician after a drug deal gone bad. Hunted throughout the city, Walker will have to use every ounce of his cunning and every bullet to his name in order to make it out alive. Bullet Train Explosion Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Genre: Disaster actionRun time: 2h 14mDirector: Shinji HiguchiCast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kanata Hosoda, Non From Shin Godzilla director Shinji Higuchi, Bullet Train Explosion follows a high-speed Japanese bullet train that gets hijacked by a mysterious terrorist. If the train goes below 100 kilometers per hour, a bomb will go off, killing everyone on board — unless the 100 billion yen ransom is paid. Will the ransom be paid? Will the government let the train explode? Can the conductor somehow get the innocent passengers to safety? Will they enact an extravagant rescue mission involving two trains? I have no idea, but man, the situation is tense. The movie is a sequel to the 1975 classic The Bullet Train, which itself was a big influence on Speed. Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Genre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 28mDirector: Pippa Ehrlich Pangolins are some of the coolest and most adorable creatures on the planet. Just look at them; they look like real-life Pokémon. Unfortunately, this very quality has made them the target of poachers and one of the most trafficked animal species in the world. This documentary follows the story of a man who finds new purpose after he rescues a baby pangolin, nursing it back to health and working tirelessly to rehabilitate it to return to the wild. New on Max Babygirl Where to watch: Available to stream on Max Genre: Erotic thrillerRun time: 1h 54mDirector: Halina ReijnCast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas In Babygirl, Romy, a stressed and sexually unsatisfied CEO (Nicole Kidman) starts a dominant-submissive affair with her intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). As the affair intensifies, Samuel starts interjecting himself more into Romy’s life, threatening to upset both her career and her home life. The erotic thriller generated a lot of buzz when it came out, with comparisons to Fifty Shades of Grey and Secretary and praise for Kidman’s vulnerable performance. 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Based on a true story, the film centers on a crew of seasoned deep-sea divers as they race against time to save their teammate after his umbilical cable is severed, leaving him stranded 330 feet below sea level with no light, no heat, and a dwindling amount of oxygen. New on Kanopy Banned Together Where to watch: Available to stream on Kanopy Genre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 33mDirectors: Kate Way, Tom WigginCast: Juno Dawson, Jodi Picoult, Isabella Troy Brazoban Three teenage students and their adult allies band together in order to fight a sudden book ban that pulled 97 books from their school libraries. Banned Together showcases their journey as they attend protests, make speeches, and head from local school board meetings to the United States Congress in order to present their case and fight for the right to read. The documentary also dives into Moms for Liberty, the conservative organization responsible for a lot of the challenged books in American libraries. New on Crunchyroll My Hero Academia: You’re Next Where to watch: Available to stream on Crunchyroll Genre: Superhero actionRun time: 1h 50mDirector: Tensai OkamuraCast: Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Kaji The newest My Hero Academia movie takes place right after the U.A. Traitor arc in the manga. A villain is impersonating All Might, so Izuku Midoriya and the rest of his friends in Class 1-A team up to stop the baddie! Along the way, the gang meets some new characters with some cool new quirks… and they also get embroiled in a mafia plot! Ain’t that just the way of things in the My Hero world? New on Shudder Ash Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder Genre: Sci-fi HorrorRun time: 1h 35mDirector: Flying LotusCast: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais Flying Lotus is back in the director’s chair with a new sci-fi horror thriller. Set on an alien world light-years from Earth, Ash stars Eiza González (3 Body Problem) as Riya, a colonist who wakes up to discover her crewmates have been viciously slaughtered. With no memory of what occured, she’ll have to decide whether or not she can trust Brio (Aaron Paul), the only other surviving member of the expedition, if she’s to have any hope of unraveling the mysteries of his hostile world and escaping alive. Polygon interviewed Flying Lotus about the production behind film, as well as González and Paul about their experience on set. Fréwaka Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder Genre: HorrorRun time: 1h 43mDirector: Aislinn ClarkeCast: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya Fans of Midsommar, Enys Men, and The Ritual will love this new folk horror thriller from director Aislinn Clarke. Haunted by a recent loss, home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) is sent to a remote village in the Irish countryside to look after an agoraphobic woman who fears she’ll be abducted by a supernatural force. While at first she doubts her new charge, Shoo slowly but surely grows to suspect that something is not right about this village. New to rent No Other Land Where to watch: Available to rent on supportmasaferyatta.com Genre: DocumentaryRun time: 1h 32mDirectors: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor Recorded between 2019 and 2023, this documentary conceived by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists follows the devastation of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank following the declaration of an Israeli “firing zone” on their land. Despite winning Best Documentary at his year’s Academy Awards, No Other Land has not been able to find a distributor in the United States, with the only way to see the movie being limited screenings at select theaters across the country. That is, until now. Last week, the creators have made No Other Land available to rent for a limited time in order to raise money for Masafer Yatta, the community depicted in the film. If you’re interested in watching the film, act fast — you have until May 9 in order to rent it. Locked Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu Genre: Action thrillerRun time: 1h 35mDirector: David YaroveskyCast: Bill Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins When Eddie (Bill Skarsgård), a young car thief, breaks into a luxury SUV he happens upon in a secluded parking lot, he gets more than he bargained for when he discovers he’s been trapped inside. When the vehicle’s owner, William (Anthony Hopkins), puts him through a series of tests with the potential of escape, Eddie finds himself ensnared in a hell of his own making. Produced by Sam Raimi, Locked looks like a fucked-up version of Carpool Karaoke by way of Saw, and if that doesn’t sound like a fun time, I don’t know what does.

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are currently underway (if you can manage to find a store with inventory, that is). As we approach the console's June 5 launch date, it's worth getting a bit reflective: The Switch as a product line is now more than eight years old, and Nintendo has made some significant changes with this latest device. If you have a Switch and are thinking about picking up a Switch 2, you might be wondering how these two generations of consoles compare.Now, Nintendo didn't just release one console during the Switch era: It released three. There's the original Switch, the Switch OLED, and the Switch Lite. I'm taking a look at all three and comparing their specs to the new Switch 2. While we'll need to wait for reviews to directly compare the overall experience of these different devices, we can at least get a sense for them on paper. DimensionsRight off the bat, all of Nintendo's Switches feel very different. The Switch 2 is the largest, coming in at 4.5 inches tall by 10.7 inches wide by 0.55 inches thick. That's with the Joy-Con 2s attached, mind you. Nintendo says the thickness from the tip of the joysticks to the ZL/ZR buttons is 1.2 inches. It weighs 0.88 lbs on its own, or 1.18 lbs with the Joy-Cons attached.The original Switch is smaller: It's 4 inches by 9.4 inches by 0.55 inches. (The joysticks to the ZL/ZR buttons is 1.12 inches.) It also weighs a little less: 0.66 lbs without Joy-Cons, or 0.88 with. It's interesting to note that the Switch 2's display is equal to the weight of the original Switch with Joy-Cons attached.The Switch OLED is quite similar to the original Switch in footprint: It's 4 inches by 9.5 inches by 0.55 inches, with the same Joy-Con dimensions as the OG Switch. However, it's right in the middle when it comes to weight: 0.71 lbs without Joy-Cons, and 0.93 with.The Switch Lite is the smallest of all: The handheld is 3.6 inches by 8.2 inches by 0.55 (the joysticks and ZL/ZR buttons add the same 1.12 inches, despite being built into the unit) and it weighs 0.61 lbs. DisplayThe Switch 2 has the largest screen of any Nintendo device ever. It comes with a 7.9 inch LCD, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. It supports HDR10, and has a VRR (variable refresh rate) of up to 120Hz. The original Switch also uses LCD for the screen, but its display is much smaller: The OG has a 6.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720. There is no HDR support, and the display supports a refresh rate of 60Hz. It's the same situation with the Switch Lite, only it has an even smaller 5.5-inch LCD (this is the most portable Switch, after all). The Switch OLED, of course, has an OLED display. That means that each of the pixels on this Switch's display can be shut off individually, which allows for much deeper blacks than an LCD can reproduce. Still, the Switch OLED's display is 7 inches, nearly a full inch smaller than the Switch 2, with no HDR support. It's also the same 720p resolution as the original Switch, so you won't see as much detail as compared to Nintendo's latest console. Video output and dockNintendo limits the Switch's resolution in handheld mode, likely for battery reasons. But when docked, you can push the console further. For example, the Switch 2 supports a maximum resolution of 4K (3840 x 2160) at 60 fps when connected to a TV. If you want to boost your game's frame rate to 120 fps (assuming the game supports it) you'll need to drop the resolution to at least 1440p, but you can also use 1080p if you like. The OG Switch and Switch OLED both support the same 1080p maximum resolution when docked. The Switch Lite doesn't support video output, since it's meant to be played exclusively in handheld mode. In order to output to a TV, you need a dock. The Switch 2 dock is quite similar to the OLED Switch dock: It's slightly larger, but comes with the same dual USB 2.0 ports, as well as a LAN port. The original Switch dock came with an extra USB 2.0 port, but no LAN port. The biggest difference here, however, is the Switch 2's dock now has a fan for active cooling, which makes sense for some of those more intense game play modes.Joy-ConsThe Switch's detachable controllers are called "Joy-Cons," and they're an iconic component of this particular Nintendo era.The new Joy-Cons, called Joy-Con 2, are 4.57-inches tall, 0.56 inches wide, and 1.2 inches thick. The left Joy-Con is 2.3 ounces, while the right is 2.4 ounces. That might have something to do with the right Joy-Cons "C-Button," which you can use for the new GameChat feature. Nintendo's official spec page for its devices appears to be wrong for the original Joy-Cons, so I've sourced it from this specific Joy-Con page: The original Joy-Cons are 4.02 inches by 1.41 inches by 1.12 inches. The left Joy-Con is 1.73 ounces, while the right is 1.84 ounces.While all Joy-Cons support HD Rumble (Nintendo's brand name for haptic feedback), the new Joy-Cons support HD Rumble 2, a newer standard. Most notably, however, the Joy-Con 2s support Mouse Mode, a feature that lets you use the Joy-Cons on a flat surface like a computer mouse.You also don't connect the Joy-Con 2s to the Switch 2 the same way as you do the originals: These connect magnetically (yes, they're strong magnets.) While you don't slide the Joy-Cons into rails like you do on the OG Switch, you do still release them via buttons on the back of the controllers. All Joy-Con models use Bluetooth 3.0, support NFC, and have the same battery stats: It takes three and a half hours to fully charge them, and you get 20 hours of play time on one charge. BatterySurprisingly, the Switch 2 does not make improvements to the Switch family's battery life—despite having the largest battery of all. The Switch 2's 5220mAh battery can run anywhere from two to 6.5 hours. (Nintendo warns that these are rough estimates and that battery life depends on the specific games you play.)Compare that to the original Switch and Switch OLED, both of which have a 4310mAh battery, and can run from 4.5 hours to nine hours. The Switch Lite (3570mAh) beats it too, with a range of three to seven hours. This isn't wholly surprising: The Switch 2 is quite a bit more powerful than the original Switches, so running a high-performing game at 120 fps is going to consume much more power than a 720p game running at 60 or 30 fps, or below. All consoles charge in about three hours when they're in sleep mode.Storage and communicationsThe Switch 2's games are likely the largest Nintendo has ever made, since the console is capable of much higher resolutions and frame rates than past generations. As such, it makes sense for Nintendo to pack more internal storage here: 256GB to be exact. The OG Switch and Switch Lite, on the other hand, only ship with 32GB of internal storage, while the Switch OLED offers 64GB. If you need more space, you can expand that storage with a microSDHC or microSDXC card on these models. Switch 2 also supports expanded memory, but specifically MicroSD Express cards, which limits the flexibility here. Switch 2 supports Wi-Fi 6, a step up from Wi-Fi 5 on the original Switches. Those Switches support Bluetooth 4.1, while Nintendo says the Switch 2 supports "Bluetooth" without any additional information. It likely supports a newer standard than that, seeing as it's launching eight years after the original, but we don't know for sure at this point.The Switch 2 also has a second USB-C port on the top of the unit. This is a great change that makes it possible to charge your Switch with the kickstand out.Audio and video chatFor the first time, a Nintendo console has camera support. The Switch 2 lets you connect a webcam for use with GameChat, so you can see your friends while playing games—and they can see you. Nintendo sells a camera of its own, but you can use some third-party webcams as well. The Switch 2 also has a built-in microphone for voice chat. That way, you can talk to your friends over GameChat with or without a camera—though I'm not sure how well they'll be able to hear you if your console and TV are across the room. Speaking of audio, the Switch 2 supports "3D Audio," which the company advertises as a more immersive audio experience. Essentially, sounds should seem like they're coming from where they originate in the game. (If a Mario Kart racer is on your tail, you should hear their engine "behind" you.) GamesWhen it comes down to it, the most important element of any console is its library of games. The Switch 2, like any new console, does have exclusives, though there aren't as many as you might think—at least not at launch. Some of the notable upcoming titles you will only be able to play on Switch 2 at this time are Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Drag X Drive, Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment, Kirby Air Riders, and Elden Ring Tarnished Edition. There are also the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition titles—original Nintendo Switch games with graphical boosts thanks to the upgraded hardware. That includes both Switch Zeldas (Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom), Super Mario Part Jamboree + Jamboree TV, Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star Crossed World, Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, and Pokémon Legends ZA.If you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Switch 2 also supports GameCube titles. At launch, that includes The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Soulcalibur II, and F-Zero GX, but more are on the way.You can buy Switch 2 games physically or digitally, but not all physical games are going to ship with the game itself. That's because some of these titles are "game-key cards," which contain the "key" to let you download the game from the internet. Then, you can play the game—as long as you have the game-key inserted in your Switch. It's peculiar, but worth mentioning here, since the original Switch doesn't operate that way. As you might expect, the Switch 2 can play Switch 1 games, but you might not consider this truly backwards compatible. That's because the Switch 2 uses emulation to play Switch 1 games, and not all games play well via this emulation. Hopefully, Nintendo irons out the issues here, but in case they don't, you might not want to trade-in your old Switch to pay for a Switch 2 if you want to continue playing Switch 1 games.KickstandNintendo continues to advance the kickstand with each Switch model. The original features a small, skinny stand that was prone to snapping off (though easily reattached via magnets). The Switch OLED greatly improved upon this design, by making the kickstand take up the full width of the console, and support more angles. The Switch 2 has a kickstand that allows for even greater variety of play angles. It's not a huge change, but worth a nod. PriceThe Switch 2 was spared a price increase from the tariffs: The console runs for $449.99, or $499.99 if you want Mario Kart World bundled in. You probably want that deal, as the game costs $79.99 on its own. Not all Switch 2 games cost $80: Donkey Kong Bananza costs $69.99, but Nintendo is no longer the company for $60 games across the board.The original Switch retails for $299.99, while the Switch OLED goes for $349.99. The Lite originally launched for $199.99, but you can frequently find it on sale.

After a couple years of having its open-source Llama AI model be just a part of its Connect conferences, Meta is breaking things out and hosting an entirely generative AI-focused developer conference called LlamaCon on April 29. The event is entirely virtual, and you'll be able to watch along live on the Meta for Developers Facebook page. LlamaCon kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT with a keynote address from Meta's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Vice President of AI Manohar Paluri and research scientist Angela Fan. The keynote is supposed to cover developments in the company's open-source AI community, "the latest on the Llama collection of models and tools" and offer a glimpse at yet-to-be released AI features. The keynote address will be followed by a conversation at 1:45PM ET / 10:45PM ET between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on "building AI-powered applications," followed by a chat at 7PM ET / 4PM PT about "the latest trends in AI" between Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It doesn't seem like either conversation will be used to break news, but Microsoft and Meta have collaborated before, so anything is possible. Meta hasn't traditionally waited for a conference to launch updates to Meta AI or the Llama model. The company introduced its new Llama 4 family of models, which excel at image understanding and document parsing, on a Saturday in early April. It's not clear what new models or products the company could have saved for LlamaCon. LlamaCon will stream live on April 29th through the Meta for Developers Facebook page and we'll be live-blogging the event right here on Engadget so you can get all the details as they happen.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-watch-llamacon-2025-metas-first-generative-ai-developer-conference-215241289.html?src=rss

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