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You read the headline so we probably don't need to re-state it, but just in case you're reading this on an ancient archive in the year 2330 and the headline has been lost to history, here it is: Microsoft has been given the go-ahead to pay $69 billion dollars for competing publisher Activision-Blizzard. That green...
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Sony has never gone on record saying it plans to release a PlayStation 5 Slim console at any point, though we've been around long enough to know a thinner iteration is inevitably on the horizon, given past trends. A couple of the main questions are, when will it launch and how much will it cost? Well, it appears...
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If you use Windows 11, how's your SSD doing? Ever since March of this year, users have been complaining of drastically reduced write performance on solid-state drives due to Windows updates, and the issue has gotten progressively worse. If you've felt like your system is slowing down over time this year, this could be...
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Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King reaches a new height of drama as the deal faces the scrutiny of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in court. The first day of the hearing was filled with a jaw-dropping email and Microsoft declaring it had already lost the console battle.
Sony has been the...
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It took over a month but Microsoft has now confirmed what some Windows 11 users have already known since May's Patch Tuesday update—there's a File Explorer bug that is causing unusually high CPU utilization on some PC setups. On the bright side, it's a very specific scenario in which the bug rears its ugly head, which...
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While ChatGPT is pretty amazing to use and interact with, it raises several privacy concerns, which companies like Alphabet/Google have warned its employees about. As a light example of this, researchers have now gotten ChatGPT to regurgitate Windows 10 Pro keys found elsewhere on the internet and likely scraped as...
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Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz is taking in-car voice control to an all-new level with ChatGPT. The new AI feature will come to customers via Microsoft Azure OpenAI services. It will offer an optional beta program beginning on June 16, 2023 in the United States for over 900,000 vehicles equipped with the MBUX...
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Microsoft revealed it plans to expand the reach of its Game Pass catalog over to NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. It represents a logical partnership, though the entirety of Microsoft's Game Pass catalog will not be available on GeForce NOW, just "select PC games." It's unclear at the moment exactly what...
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Who could have expected that it would be rather difficult to spend $69 billion to acquire another company? Despite the green light from the European Union for Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard last month, the Redmond-based company has hit yet another roadblock. The FTC has elected to go after a temporary...
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Microsoft presented its Xbox Showcase yesterday and it was jam-packed with new game announcements. Among those announcements were a new trailer for the upcoming game Starfield and a release date of September 6, 2023, along with an extended gameplay overview following the event. However, even with all the new footage...
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This week, Xbox and Bethesda held a showcase that revealed a number of new games as well as updates to existing titles. What might have been most interesting is Microsoft's acknowledgment that the Xbox Series S, while formidable, is not entirely cut out for today's games or, rather, their requirements. With rapidly...
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While Cortana may not be talking to you for much longer, Microsoft has given a voice to its Bing Chat to keep you company. Microsoft has now added the speech-to-text ability to its Bing Chat, giving the chatbot the ability to be heard.
Microsoft made a multitide of announcements regarding its advancements in AI...
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If you're any sort of gamer, you've surely had the experience of excitedly clicking on a trailer for an upcoming game only to realize that the entire thing is hand-crafted CGI, completely unrepresentative of the game it's supposedly promoting. You can imagine your author's disappointment when he loaded up League of...
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Microsoft announces that it is killing off its productivity assistant, Cortana, in Windows later this year. While users will no longer have access to Cortana in Windows, Microsoft says the helpful assistant will still be available to use in other capacities, such as Outlook Mobile.
The announcement that Cortana is...
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Microsoft recently unveiled its Windows Copilot feature during its Build 2023 event, making Windows the first PC platform to provide centralized AI assistance for its customers. Along with first- and third-party plugins, Copilot is meant to help users focus on bringing ideas to life while collaborating with others...
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As more people begin to adopt Windows 11, Microsoft is aiming to make the experience even better with the help of AI. The company sees AI as being the defining technology of our time and developers being at the forefront of this transformation. With that in mind, the team at Microsoft has announced new tools to help...
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In a recent Windows developer blog post, Microsoft announced it will finally be adding RGB control software to Windows 11, 5 years after we first saw our first hint that Microsoft was building Windows RGB lighting controls back in 2018. Microsoft is calling its new RGB tool Dynamic Lighting, and it will be able to...
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Intel and Microsoft announced the two tech giants are working together to drive the development of artificial intelligence (AI) on personal computing (PC). The announcement comes as part of Microsoft's Build 2023 conference, where the two previewed the AI capabilities of the upcoming Meteor Lake client PC...
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Microsoft has announced a wide range of updates to “deliver new AI innovation,” across a variety of its IPs like Bing, Edge, SwiftKey, and Skype. Perhaps the launch which is set to make the biggest splash is the introduction of the Bing Widget, as noted in our headline. This home screen UI hogging widget is coming to...
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Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King has a new lease on life, as the EU gives its seal of approval. European Union regulators say Microsoft offered remedies that alleviate any concerns it may have had concerning the $69 billion deal.
Since its announcement, the controversial deal has had...
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UK's watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced its final decision concerning Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King late last month. That finding stated the deal had "significant shortcomings," as well as reduce innovation and alter the growing landscape of cloud gaming. Now, it is...
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Microsoft is testing a huge wave of new features in its latest preview build for Windows 11, version 22621.1776. The update adds over twelve additional features overall, with some of the largest including Contrast Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) to increase battery life on OLED devices, a USB4 hub page, and a new...
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