The future of Xbox: all the news on Microsoft’s strategy shift
Image: The Verge From console exclusives to rumored new hardware. Continue reading…
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Read MoreMicrosoft announced this week that four of Xbox’s previously-exclusive games are going cross-platform to PlayStation and Switch. Xbox head Phil Spencer says in a new interview that he’d like to see Sony and Nintendo bring their games to Xbox — but that he isn’t holding his breath. From a report: In an interview for journalist
Read MoreApple made one accessory that wasn’t included in the Apple Vision Pro box — an impractically large $200 Travel Case that isn’t great at what it claims to do. Apple Vision Pro Travel Case review: doesn’t deliver on the high price It is no surprise that Apple would introduce a Travel Case that’s as oddly
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Broadcom has made a lot of changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the company in November. On Wednesday, VMware admitted that these changes are worrying customers. With customers mulling alternatives and partners complaining, VMware is trying to do damage control and convince people that
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority As smartphones get thinner and lighter with each passing year, manufacturers have pushed to remove as many redundant components as possible. The 3.5mm headphone jack was one of the first victims of this push nearly half a decade ago. Now, smartphone makers are pushing to kill the SIM card
Read MoreDiving in deep into the details of using Apple Vision Pro for work and for all the entertainment it’s bringing us — plus a peek ahead to what Apple devices should be coming next. First-day Apple Vision Pro buyers are at the point they have to decide whether or not to return the headset to
Read MoreA muddled and entirely unverifiable rumor claims that Apple has been testing other manufacturer’s folding phones and decided to put the iPhone Fold on hold. The ‘iPhone Fold’ is expected to take design cues from existing Apple products Following reports that Apple is working on two prototype ideas for a foldable iPhone, a new claim
Read MoreSave $300 with an exclusive promo code discount on Apple’s Space Black M3 Max MacBook Pro 16-inch with a 40-core GPU, 128GB memory and spacious 2TB SSD. Plus, get $80 off AppleCare. Save $300 on a loaded MacBook Pro. The $300 discount is available exclusively to AppleInsider readers with promo code APINSIDER at Adorama, an
Read MoreJohn O’Donoghue of Equinix explains why it is important to remember that AI works ‘alongside’ humans and how organisations can make the most of the emerging tech. Read more: From patient care to sustainability, how AI is transforming the world
Read MoreIllustration by Erik Carter It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI. Continue reading…
Read MoreTime for Samsung and Google to make some room in the midrange. Continue reading…
Read MoreNew supply chain reports say Apple is in discussions with Samsung and others to provide the displays for an early 2025 release of the iPhone SE. iPhone SE 4 could look like iPhone 14 If all rumors are to be believed, Apple’s fourth lower-cost iPhone SE has had a peculiar run of delays and bad
Read MoreSpace simulator “No Mans Sky” has a new update, and to celebrate it, they’ve made the title free to play between February 15 and February 19. ‘No Mans Sky’ is free to play through February 19 Eight years after launch, and 24 major updates later, Hello Games’ No Mans Sky has another update. To celebrate
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus has clarified that the 256GB OnePlus 12R doesn’t have UFS 4.0 storage speeds. This comes after the company’s Indian website listed the 256GB variant with UFS 4.0 storage. OnePlus has now outlined the refund process for affected users. Update, February 16, 2024 (07:28 AM ET): OnePlus president Kinder
Read MoreAs a big player in the high-end laptop game with the MacBook, it makes sense that Apple also produces a desktop computer. It’s also unsurprising to see that the machine is phenomenally expensive. We’re not saying it’s not worth it — you’re getting top-tier specs such as the Apple M2 Ultra chip, a 60-core GPU,
Read MoreBrightHR’s Alan Price discusses how to navigate the murky waters of office romances and the challenges that can result from them. Read more: An employer’s guide to navigating romance at work
Read MoreKanye West’s new “Vultures 1” was pulled from Apple Music, after the artist abused automated systems to have it posted to streaming services without the distributor’s blessing. West has been working with digital music distribution service Fuga for some time to distribute his music. Fuga’s service takes artists’ music, and does the heavy lifting in
Read MoreMillions of Ukrainians are suffering the mental health implications of two years of Russian bombs and shells. The country’s recovery depends on building systems to help treat the trauma.
Read MoreEverybody knows you can’t install Windows XP on a 386, or Windows 95 on an original IBM PC. But for Windows 11, the goalposts seem to be changing with newer releases of the existing OS. As covered by The Register, it appears the latest Windows 11 24H2 update might be incompatible with older machines. It’s all
Read MoreBloomberg: Reserve Bank of India says it is not planning harsher rules to curb the country’s fintech sector, weeks after abruptly suspending Paytm Payments Bank operations — – RBI wants to have a hands-off approach on fintech regulation — Comments come weeks after RBI took action against Paytm bank
Read MoreAstral, which makes high-performance Python tools such as the Ruff linter, has launched uv, an “extremely fast” Python package installer and resolver written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools, uv is ready for production use today in projects built around those workflows, Astral wrote in a blog post announcing the
Read MoreOne of the things that has often driven me nuts with the rise of cloud computing is the assumption that the demise of the mainframe is a foregone conclusion. I’ve often written about the reality that not all applications and data sets belong on the cloud, especially ones that reside on mainframes. Although I have
Read MoreGoogle’s description of the feature in Search Labs. | Image: Sterling Google is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that allows the company’s software to call a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait on hold, and then notify you when there’s a real human being available for you
Read MoreZoë Schiffer / Platformer: An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter’s tumultuous transition to X — Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? Kurt Wagner and Zoë Schiffer, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each
Read MoreThe company said it has surpassed its end-of-year forecasts, but the targets set by NBI have changed multiple times in recent years. Read more: National Broadband Plan is ‘on time and on budget’, NBI claims
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