Tech Pulse 9/1/25

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate four articles spanning the future of Windows, digital publishing, AI hardware, and a remarkable profile series on blind accessibility in gaming.Microsoft's vision for Windows is shifting — toward a future where your PC lives in the cloud, responds to your voice, and adapts to what you're trying to accomplish. The piece explores what that could mean for everyday users in the years ahead.AI is quietly transforming how books and articles get published — not by replacing writers, but by making audio versions faster, cheaper, and more scalable than ever before.A credit-card-sized AI note-taker that has already sold over a million units just launched a new model. The piece asks the obvious question: why carry another device when your phone can already do this?We also begin part one of a three-part profile of Ross Miner — a blind gamer who lost his sight at eight years old and has since built a career fighting to make video games accessible to everyone.Aftersight is a media organization that serves individuals with barriers to print. This podcast is produced by Aftersight under the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act which states that authorized nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats to individuals with barriers to print are exempt. By continuing to listen, you verify you are blind, have low vision, or barriers to reading print materials.