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PC World Latest NewsJul 03, 2025
Intel's excellent Unison PC-to-phone app shuts down for good

Intel's Unison page notes that the program "will soon be discontinued," and a related Intel Knowledge Base article also claims that the app has reached its end of life. Dell puts it even more plainly: "The Intel Unison application is being discontinued and will no longer function correctly or be available for download after June 30, 2025."

Intel had said earlier this year that it planned to discontinue the Unison app, probably because the company is working to cut costs in the midst of a downturn that has produced company layoffs and a reported recalibration in its manufacturing processes that will see its next-gen 18A process assigned to internal use only.

For a time, device makers were obsessed with making mobile devices interact with laptops. Dell's Mobile Connect — which still appears to be alive, for now — was one option. Intel Unison was another, and one that wasn't confined to any specific device maker. Intel talked boldly about Unison becoming not just an app, but a platform for cross-device connectivity.

Microsoft, however, had other plans, with the Your Phone app for Windows, whi


NPR Topics: Research NewsMar 31, 2025
AI is great at predicting text. How well can it guide robots?
It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere in our virtual lives. It's in our search results and our phones. But what happens when AI moves out of the chat and into the real world? NPR science editor and correspondent Geoff Brumfiel took a trip to the Intelligence through Robotic Interaction at Scale Lab at Stanford University to see how scientists are using AI to power robots and the large hurdles that exist for them to perform even simple tasks.

Read Geoff's full story.

Interested in more AI stories? Email us your ideas at shortwave@npr.org.

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