Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, January 4th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Your Windows keyboard is getting its first new key in 30 years.

Elon might offer you a cellular plan someday.

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Roku is going high-end,

XPS laptops are getting bigger, and yes,

2023 was a bad year for all sides of the Venture Capital game.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

For the first time in 30 years the keyboard you use every day is about to get a new

key and would you believe that AI is the reason Microsoft is going all in on AI with its new co-pilot branding.

Supposedly the next version of Windows coming out this year will be

chock full of AI bells and whistles.

More on that again in a second.

To compliment that though, there will now be a new co-pilot key shipping on new

PCs and laptops this year. It will sit next to the right-hand alt key. It will

replace the menu key. When you press it, it will

launch the Windows co-pilot that gives you a chat gepet-like chatbot

quoting Tom Warren in the verge.

Nearly 30 years ago we introduced the Windows key to the PC keyboard that enabled people

all over the world to interact with Windows, says Yusef Medi, Executive Vice President, and Consumer

Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, we see this as another transformative moment in our journey with Windows

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