Author: Zach_Wilson

Square Enix will let Kingdom Hearts cook on Steam

I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately… like, should I go back and replay the Kingdom Hearts series or not? Fortunately, Square Enix has made this decision trivial with the announcement that it’s releasing the series on Steam on June 13th. To celebrate, and perhaps destabilize an entire generation of…

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Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer

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Twitch introduces new filtering tools that lets you exclude sexual and violent content

Twitch has updated its filtering tools to allow the exclusion of livestreams that feature mature themes, like sexual, violent and profane content. In other words, you won’t have to sift through hundreds of gross streams just to find someone innocently drinking soda pop and playing through Hades 2. These new…

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Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare – here’s why I’m worried

When I first heard about Recall, I immediately buried my face in my hands. I never thought I’d see such a glaring target be created by Microsoft, never mind it being marketed as a feature. If you haven’t read about it yet, Recall is an AI feature coming to Windows…

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Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets

At Build, Microsoft has just announced “Windows Volumetric Apps on Meta Quest,” a way to “extend Windows apps into 3D space.” Details are slim, but the company showed off a digital exploded 3D view of an Xbox controller from the perspective of a Meta Quest 3 headset, a digital object…

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Pre-order Samsung’s first Copilot+ laptop and get a free 50-inch 4K TV

Samsung was among the Microsoft hardware partners unveiling AI-powered PCs on Monday. If you pre-order the company’s Galaxy Book4 Edge, which uses Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite processor to run AI models locally, you can get a free 50-inch Samsung Crystal UHD TV as a bonus. The Galaxy Book4 Edge…

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