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Microsoft’s AI-powered ‘Eye Contact’ feature is finally coming to the Surface Pro X

The Verge

Microsoft’s AI-powered “eye contact” feature for the Surface Pro X is finally starting to roll out, months after it was originally announced for the ARM-powered Surface laptop last year. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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10 Design Tips for Awesome Nonprofit Online Presentations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Crafting a kick-ass online presentation can help ensure that your most important contacts are still in your court. Use the last slide to encourage questions, cement a final message, give people contact information for email and social media, or as a final call to action. 4) Last slide. 5) Divider slides. 6) Brevity rules.

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Windows 11’s new meeting features improve eye contact, framing, and background blur

The Verge

Four new features are coming soon that will improve background noise suppression, eye contact, framing, and background blur. Microsoft’s eye contact feature is also being rolled out more broadly on compatible devices, instead of being limited to the Surface Pro X. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Microsoft.

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Lenovo made a wireless charger for your laptop

The Verge

Lenovo has announced a new product called the Go Wireless Charging Kit, which lets you retrofit wireless charging functionality to a wide variety of laptops. It makes use of “Power by Contact” technology from Energy Square, rather than the more common Qi standard. Wireless charging on laptops is pretty rare.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone. TextPlus allows you to easily send group texts to your smartphone contacts. Bump technology entails two individuals “bumping&# phones to add one another to each others’ contacts.

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3 Easy Ways to Get New Email Subscribers and Drive Donor Growth

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Every nonprofit needs two things to drive sustainable growth: new contacts and new donors. You might be thinking this is unnecessary, but it only takes a few minutes to test both – on your laptop and your phone – and it could save you huge headaches in the long run.

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Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries

Ars Technica

As the owner of a 3-year-old laptop, I feel the finite lifespan of lithium batteries acutely. Through repeated cyclings, bits of electrodes fragment and lose contact with the conductors that collect current, while lithium can end up in electrically isolated complexes.

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