Month: February 2024
Read Phil Spencer’s Microsoft memo on ‘Xbox everywhere’
Today at noon Pacific, we’ll be posting a special episode of the Official Xbox Podcast. In this episode, Sarah Bond, Matt Booty and I will share with the community our plans for the future of Xbox. We’ll also discuss how our vision will benefit our players, creators, and the industry as a whole.…
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Intel Core i9-14900KS CPU could be out next month with 6.2GHz boost – for those who can afford it
Intel’s Core i9-14900KS, a supercharged version of the current Raptor Lake Refresh flagship, the 14900K, could be on shelves as soon as next month. Tom’s Hardware picked up on a report from Benchlife (a Chinese tech site) which cites sources claiming that the purported Core i9-14900KS is set to launch…
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Google offers non-Pixel owners a way to avoid waiting on hold with latest test
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 to speak to. The test, which…
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Xbox will ‘respect the investments that people have made’ and encourage backward compatibility in the future
The most recent Xbox Podcast with the CEO of Microsoft gaming, Phil Spencer, the president of gaming content and studios at Xbox, Matt Booty, and the president of Xbox, Sarah Bond, saw the three discuss the future of the gaming console but also how it would always stick to its…
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Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data
Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent. I personally experienced the bug last month, after I rebooted my PC for a regular Windows update and Microsoft Edge automatically opened with the Chrome…
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OpenAI’s new Sora text-to-video model can make shockingly realistic content
OpenAI breaks new ground as the AI giant has revealed its first text-to-video model called Sora, capable of creating shockingly realistic content. We’ve been wondering when the company was finally going to release its own video engine as so many of its rivals, from Stability AI to Google, have beaten…
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