[ad_1] The strain on gaming services might be easing now that pandemic lockdowns are easing in some parts of the world. Windows Central notes that Microsoft has restored custom Xbox Live gamerpic uploads nearly three months after disabling the feature to reduce the workload for moderators. We’ve asked Microsoft for comment, but it’s safe to […]
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Microsoft employees ask the company to end contracts with Seattle police
[ad_1] “We are all in agreement that our neighborhood has been turned into [a] warzone escalated by SPD and that our coworkers and leaders need to know what is happening,” the letter reads. “We need awareness and empathy across every level of management asap so that the burden of educating our coworkers doesn’t fall on […]
The best deals we found this week: 16-inch MacBook Pro, PS Plus and more
[ad_1] Buy 16-inch MacBook Pro on Amazon – $2,100 PlayStation Plus and Now Engadget PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now one-year subscriptions are both down to $42 on Amazon right now. Both normally cost $60 and the lowest price we’ve seen for them was $40 a few months ago. PlayStation Plus is essentially a necessity if […]
Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser rolls out through Windows Update
[ad_1] Edge, Microsoft’s replacement for its often-criticized Internet Explorer was first released in 2015. But last year, the company rebuilt the browser from the ground up, this time with Google’s open source Chromium framework rather than its proprietary EdgeHTML engine. It’s been available to users since January, but Microsoft only hosted it as a manual […]
The BBC’s Beeb voice assistant is ready for testing on PC
[ad_1] Last year the BBC announced it was working on its own voice assistant, called “Beeb,” designed to help customers take advantage of voice assistant technology regardless of their accent. Existing assistants still have issues understanding accents, and nowhere is this truer than Britain, which has a broad range of accents despite its small geographic […]
Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games
[ad_1] Present May 4th marked the 20th anniversary of GodGames’ acquisition by Take-Two. Wilson, Miller and Sweeney have all trod their own paths in the video game industry, and they’re all still active today. They started out in the undefined, pre-internet, post-shareware fog of the early 1990s, where they learned plenty about large-scale business and […]
Samsung’s new subscription bundles a Galaxy S20 with Microsoft 365
[ad_1] Samsung’s Galaxy S20 family is expensive when even the ‘entry’ model begins around $1,000. The company thinks it has a solution, though: turn the phone into more of a service. It just launched an Access plan that provides an S20 phone, a Premium Care warranty, Microsoft 365 and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage for […]
Microsoft cuts dozens of staff as it shifts to AI for MSN news stories
[ad_1] Workforce automation is about to cost dozens of news contractors their jobs. The Seattle Times and The Guardian report that Microsoft is letting go of dozens of news contractors (about 50 in the US, 27 in the UK) after June 30th due to a shift to AI news production on MSN. The workers were […]
Sony exec touts PS5 exclusive games while Xbox pushes ‘choice, value’
[ad_1] The Xbox team heard the suggestion that games on their platform might not take advantage of new-gen features to provide a new experience, and Xbox Games Marketing exec Aaron Greenberg tweeted “Generations of games that play on latest HW taking advantage of next-gen innovation offering more choice, value & variety than any console launch […]
Xbox Family Settings app sets limits on your kids’ game time
[ad_1] Microsoft is doing more to keep tabs on your kids’ digital habits. It just released the preview version of an Xbox Family Settings app for Android and 10,000 iOS users that manages what, when and how children play on Xbox consoles. You can set time limits on a day-by-day basis, set content filters for […]