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A new pollen forecast widget is coming to Pixel Weather
This time of year is a nightmare for people like me. The air is absolutely swarming with pollen, and that’s sending my hayfever into overdrive. Right now I honestly can’t tell whether this is a symptom of a cold-like illness, or if Mother Nature has decided to take out her frustrations on my sinuses.
Thankfully for those of you suffering like me in the U.S.,Googlehas started rolling out a helpful feature to thePixel-exclusive weather app: A pollen tracker (via9to5Google).
The idea is that Pixel Weather will predict how bad the pollen count will be over the next few days. That way you know to prepare yourself with medication or, in more extreme circumstances, seal up your doors and windows and refuse to go outside.
The feature has already been available in multiple regions around the world already, including Germany, Italy, France and the U.K. For that reason I’ve already been using Google’s pollen tracker for the last few weeks.
The Pollen tracker on Pixel has been built to show you pollen levels from 3 different kinds of plants — grass, tree and weeds. The widget shows you current levels for all three plants, with 4 different levels of severity: low, medium, high and “severe”.
Naturally, Google has employed a traffic light color scheme to make that clear at a glance. But you can get more information by tapping the widget and opening up a dedicated “Pollen” information page.
The most important part of the Pollen page is that it has a forecast for all 3 pollen types. Grass and weeds show you levels for the next two days, while the tree pollen page shows you a little further — up to 4 days into the future.
The idea is that you can plan ahead, but that’s not been doing me much good. When the tree pollen has been stuck as either severe or high for the past few weeks, there isn’t much you can do than self-medicate and get on with your day.
Though the fact levels will be dropping to “medium” towards the end of the week gives me some hope that my eye will stop watering all day long.
The pollen widget offers a bit more than just a future pollen forecast. It also shows you what kind of pollen is prominent on any given day, and when that pollen tends to be around.
Right now I can see that today’s tree pollen consists of Oak, Alder, Ash, Birch and Olive. All of them are prevalent during spring time, though Alder, Ash and Birch also apparently pollinate in late winter. So hopefully they’ll be calming down in the next few weeks.
Google also includes various other plants that may produce a cross reaction. According to this, having a reaction to grass pollen also puts you at greater risk of various food allergies, including oranges, tomatoes, peanuts, potatoes and other legumes.
I didn’t know this, and I hope that the AI that put this together is a little more accurate than theAI Overviews in Google Search.
If you’re using a Samsung laptop and rely on Google’s Quick Share for moving files around, get ready for a change. Samsung is taking the reins for the Quick Share experience on its own Windows machines starting May 28, 2025. This move consolidates the file transfer feature under Samsung’s control for its PC and laptop users.
One app to rule them all
This shift means the standalone Quick Share app provided by Google will be phased out on Samsung laptops (and PCs). According to the release notes for the latest Quick Share app update from Google (version 1.0.2180.0), come May 28th next year, attempting to use the Google version on a Samsung laptop will prompt you to install Samsung’s own Quick Share application instead.Google has already updated its app, paving the way for this transition. The application has been renamed from “Quick Share from Google” to simply “Quick Share”, and crucially, compatibility with Samsung’s version has been added.
This move aims to streamline the file-sharing experience for users within the Samsung ecosystem. For a while now, there have been two “Quick Share” experiences floating around: Google’s Nearby Share (which was rebranded to Quick Share early last year) and Samsung’s own Quick Share feature, which predates Google’s widespread adoption of the name. This created some confusion, especially when sharing between Samsung phones, non-Samsung Android devices, and Windows PCs.Google and Samsung announced plans to merge these experiencesback in early 2024, aiming for a unified file-sharing solution similar to Apple’s popular AirDrop feature that works seamlessly between iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Other alternatives like Microsoft’s Phone Link also offer ways to bridge phone and PC, but Quick Share focuses specifically on rapid, direct file transfers. This upcoming change on Samsung laptops is the next logical step in that consolidation effort, ensuring Samsung users have a consistent experience managed directly by Samsung across their Galaxy phones and Galaxy Book computers.>>>Replacement battery for Samsung Galaxy Pro S SM-W700 SM-700N SM-W703 708 Handing control over to Samsung for its own laptops makes a lot of sense. It should reduce confusion and hopefully lead to a more integrated and seamless file-sharing process for people invested in Samsung’s hardware. While swapping apps might involve a quick download and potentially getting used to a slightly different interface, having a single, manufacturer-managed Quick Share application on Samsung PCs is ultimately a positive step. It moves towards a less fragmented experience when you just want to send a photo or document from your phone to your laptop quickly, simplifying a common task.
With just a couple steps, you can double check what GPU you have installed
Finding out how to check what graphics card you have can be incredibly useful, particularly if you’ve just bought a pre-built rig or a secondhand machine and haven’t opened it up yet.
Not every PC case comes with a glass side panel revealing the components, and even then, unless you put the computer together yourself (or it’s been a while), knowing how to quickly pull up the internal information without unplugging anything is a godsend.
It’s not just thebest gaming PCsthat can benefit from learning what GPU’s inside, as our guide also works handily for thebest gaming laptops, where it’s far less apparent, and far more challenging to open things up. All you’ll need isWindows 10orWindows 11and around a minute or so with the right software to get up to speed.
Once you know what GPU you have, why not take things a step further? We’re also showing youhow to overclock a GPU, and if the model inside your rig is a little long in the tooth, then you may find our lists on thebest graphics cardsand thebest 4K graphics cardsuseful to prolong your gaming experience in 2025.
Steps for how to check what graphics card you have
Open Device Manager
Expand Display Adapters
Open Display Adapter
Step by step guide
1. Open Device Manager
TypeDevice Managerinto the search bar. A popup will appear, showing different options. However, the topmost will be for the actual Device Manager.Click on the Device Manager iconor onOpen.
2. Expand Display Adapters
Once the device manager has opened, it will list all the categories of devices installed in your computer. Find and press onDisplay Adapters.You should see your GPU listed here. You can double-click on the GPU and see its properties, including driver information.
3. Open Display Adapter
You can double-click on the listedgraphics cardto see its properties, including driver information.
Alternatively: Use monitoring software
While our way of showing you how to check what GPU you have works without needing any extra software, a good monitoring program can give you the information you’re after after a quick and easy install. The likes ofNZXT CAMand theNvidia app(if applicable) can auto-detect what’s in your rig, with the former being lightweight in tracking your graphics card’s temperature, frequency, and type it is.
There are other ways to find out what graphics card you have. For instance, if you open your System settings, you can clickDisplay > Advanced Display, where the GPU information is listed under Display Information. However, many gaming laptops will switch between discrete graphics and integrated graphics when the discrete GPU is not needed to save on battery life. In this case, you would not see the correct information.
Never mind Recall, I’m jealous of the AI supercharging of Windows 11’s standard taskbar search
Microsoft has finally made Recall available on Windows 11 for Copilot+ PCs – it’s rolling out with the April preview update
Click to Do is also generally available now, as is an AI-supercharged version of Windows 11’s basic search functionality
The latter improved search feature is what might interest many Copilot+ PC owners
Microsofthas finally unleashed its Recall feature on the general computing public after multiple misfires and backtracks since the functionality wasfirst revealed almost a year ago.
In case it escaped your attention – which is unlikely, to say the least – Recall is the much talked about AI-powered feature that uses regularly saved screenshots to provide an in-depth, natural language search experience.
Microsoft announced that the general availability of Recall forWindows 11is happening, with the feature now rolling out, albeit with the caveat that this is for Copilot+ PCs only. That’s because a chunky NPU is required to beef up the local processing power on hand to ensure the search works responsively enough.
Alongside Recall, the ‘Click to Do’ feature is also debuting in Windows 11 for Copilot+ PCs, which is a partner ability that offers up context-sensitive AI-powered actions (most recently a new reading coach integration is in testing, a nifty touch).
There’s also a boost for Windows 11 search in general on Copilot+ laptops, which now benefits from a natural language approach,as seen in testing recently. This means you can type a query in the taskbar search box to find images of “dogs on beaches” and any pics of your pets in the sand will be surfaced. (This also ties in cloud-based results with findings on your device locally).
Microsoft further notes that it has expanded Live Captions, its system-wide feature to provide captions for whatever content you’re experiencing, to include real-time translations in Chinese (Simplified) covering 27 languages (for audio or video content).
It’s Recall that’s the big development here, though, and while Microsoft doesn’t say anything new about the capability, the company underlines some key aspects (we were informed about in the past) regarding privacy.
Microsoft reminds us: “Recall is an opt-in experience with a rich set of privacy controls to filter content and customize what gets saved for you to find later. We’ve implemented extensive security considerations, such as Windows Hello sign-in, data encryption, and isolation in Recall to help keep your data safe and secure.
“Recall data is processed locally on your device, meaning it is not sent to the cloud and is not shared with Microsoft and Microsoft will not share your data with third parties.”
Furthermore, we’re also reminded that Recall can be stripped out of your Copilot+ PC completely if you don’t want the feature, and are paranoid about even its barebones being present (disabled) on your PC. There are instructions for removing Recall in thissupport documentthat also goes into depth about how the functionality works.
All of this is being delivered to Copilot+ PCs starting with the April 2025 preview update, which is out now. However, note that for certain regions, the release timing of the new features may vary. The European Economic Area won’t get these abilities until later in 2025, notably, as Microsoft already told us.
The arrival of Recall is not surprising, because even though it’s been almost a year since Microsoft first unveiled the feature – andrapidly pulled the curtain backover it for some time, after theinitial copious amounts of flakwere fired at the idea – it was recentlyspotted in the Release Preview channelfor Windows 11. That’s the final hurdle before release, of course, so the presence of Recall there clearly indicated it was close at hand.
I must admit I didn’t think it would be out quite so soon, though, and a relatively rapid progression through this final test phase would seem to suggest that things went well.
That said, Microsoft makes it clear that this is a ‘controlled feature rollout’ for Copilot+ PCs, so Recall will likely be released on a fairly limited basis to begin with. In short, you may not get it for a while, but if you do want it as soon as possible, you need to download the mentioned optional update for April 2025 (known as the non-security preview update). Also, ensure you’ve turned on the option to ‘Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available’ (which is inSettings > Windows Update).
Even then, you may have to be patient for some time, as I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft was tentative about this rollout to start with. There’s a lot at stake here, after all, in terms of the reputation of Copilot+ PCs.
Arguably, however, the most important piece of the puzzle here isn’t Recall at all, although doubtless Microsoft would say otherwise. For me – if I had a Copilot+ PC (I don’t, so this is all hypothetical, I should make clear) – what I’d be really looking forward to is the souped-up version of Windows 11’s basic search functionality.
Recall? Well, it might be useful, granted, but I have too many trust issues still to be any kind of early adopter, and I suspect I won’t be alone. Click to Do? Meh, it’s a bit of a sideshow for Recall and while possibly handy, it looks far from earth-shattering in the main.
A better general Windows search experience overall, though? Yes please, sign me up now. Windows 11 search has been regarded as rather shoddy in many ways, and the same is broadly true for searching via the taskbar box inWindows 10. An all-new, more powerful natural language search could really help in this respect, and might be a much better reason for many people to grab a Copilot+ PC than Recall, which as noted is going to be steered clear of by a good many folks (in all likelihood).
Microsoft’s own research (add seasoning) suggests this revamped basic Windows 11 search is a considerable step forward. The software giant informs us that on a Copilot+ device, the new Windows search means it “can take up to 70% less time to find an image and copy it to a new folder” compared to the same search and shift process on a Windows 10 PC.
Of course, an improved search forallWindows 11 PCs (not just Copilot+ models) would be even better – obviously – and hopefully that’s in the cards from an overarching perspective of the development roadmap for the OS. The catch is that this newly pepped-up search is built around the powerful NPU required for a Copilot+ laptop, of course, but that doesn’t stop Microsoft from enhancing Windows search in general for everyone.
Naturally, Microsoft is resting a lot of expectations on Copilot+ PCs, though, noting that it expects the ‘majority’ of PCs sold in the next few years to be these devices. Analyst firms havepreviously predicted big things for AI PCs, as they’re also known, as well.
Over the course of the three decades that the USB connectivity standard has existed, there have been so many variations and revisions of USB that finding the right cable or charger was more confusing than it needed to be. Finding the appropriate cable for fast charging once that became common was tricky enough, to say nothing of the many peripheral-side connectors that we’ve had to deal with, like Mini USB, Micro USB, USB Type-B, and USB Type-C. (To say nothing of the many different color-coded revisions of the computer/host-side USB Type-A connector.) As the 2020s go on, though, the computing/consumer electronics industries have increasingly relied on USB Type-C on both ends of the cable, making the process a lot more standardized and easy to deal with.However, if you go shopping for USB Type-C cables, you may notice that some cables are clearly marked as being fully up-to-date USB Type-C cables rated for the newest standard with the highest speeds, USB4, while also carrying other markings as well. Most commonly, besides brand logos and specs for the cable, many of these cables include a lightning bolt logo on the connector. Where this gets confusing is that while this logo is indicative of a connectivity standard that’s backward compatible with USB4 over USB Type-C and uses the same connector, this separate standard is not part of the USB spec itself. We’re talking about Thunderbolt, Intel’s standard (popularized by Apple, which has featured Thunderbolt connections on Macs for over a decade) that started separately from USB but has, since 2015, become intertwined with it.>>>Replacement battery for HP Officejet 100 150 H470The lightning bolt signifies compatibility with Intel’s Thunderbolt standard
USB Type-C cables with lightning bolts on the connectors are Thunderbolt cables, meaning that they work with Intel’s Thunderbolt connectivity standard that’s backward compatible with USB-C. (A number next to the lightning bolt indicates which Thunderbolt revision it can deliver the full speed of.) Thunderbolt is now on its fifth iteration since 2011, Thunderbolt 5, and has utilized a USB Type-C connector since 2015’s Thunderbolt 3. (Before, it used a Mini DisplayPort connector for Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2.)USB4, the most recent revision of the USB spec, boasts data transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps, but Thunderbolt 5 can top that. By default, it’s twice as fast as Thunderbolt 4 was, running at 80 Gbps in each direction, but also includes a Bandwidth Boost mode that allows it to transmit data at 120 Gbps while receiving data at 40 Gbps. It also supports 64 Gbps of PCI Express lanes, with the same speed for networking over Thunderbolt 5 as well.>>>Replacement adapter for Asus Chromebook C523N C523NA-DH02If you’re wondering what the use case is for the average consumer, the most obvious one would be supplementing the internal storage of something like a Mac Mini without paying Apple’s very high premium for upgrading internal storage at point of purchase. The throughput that Thunderbolt 5 is capable of making it so that you can dramatically upgrade your high-speed storage at potentially lower prices, turning one of the best bargains in desktop computing into an even bigger one.
