Halo veteran Joseph Staten is joining Netflix after leaving Microsoft / Xbox recently. Staten will now work on a brand new AAA multiplatform game at Netflix 👀theverge.com/2023/4/17/23686… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/17/23686693/netflix-joseph-staten-aaa-game-halo-veteran)
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Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition has been approved by South Africa's competition commission without any conditions.
markets where regulators have approved the deal:
• Saudi Arabia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Serbia
• Japan
• South Africa
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Google has been reportedly left “shocked” at Samsung considering switching to Microsoft’s Bing search on its Android phones. It’s in panic mode and “racing to build an all-new search engine” powered by AI nytimes.com/2023/04/16/techn… (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-engine-ai.html)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1647885943397920769#m
a $600 GPU is not budget 😬
nitter.moomoo.me/Kotaku/status/1646176351076995072#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/Kotaku/status/1646176351076995072#m)
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Ubisoft+ is finally launching on Xbox, but it will have fewer games than on PC. To use Ubisoft+ on Xbox, you’ll have to pay for the more expensive Multi Access plan, which costs $17.99 per month theverge.com/2023/4/13/23679… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/13/23679677/ubisoft-plus-xbox-launch)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1646529473892827137#m
Microsoft is changing how the Print Screen button key works on Windows 11. It will soon open the Snipping Tool by default instead of copying a screenshot to your clipboard. Details here: theverge.com/2023/4/12/23680… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/12/23680002/microsoft-print-screen-key-snipping-tool-windows-11)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1646105161041944577#m
I think Frank found the Windows XP field
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**Response to @tomwarren:**
ok after a mysterious small additional update, I'm now getting 44fps in Cyberpunk 2077 with full path tracing enabled and without DLSS at 1440p. That's more like it
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Microsoft is officially launching PC Game Pass in 40 new countries today. It's a big expansion of Game Pass, which is now available in 86 countries in total theverge.com/2023/4/11/23678… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/11/23678689/microsoft-pc-game-pass-40-new-countries-launch)
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Microsoft’s latest Xbox cloud deal is with EE, a UK mobile network operator and ISP. Xbox Game Pass is available at EE and can be added to a monthly bill
nitter.moomoo.me/XboxP3/status/1645668066578276352#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/XboxP3/status/1645668066578276352#m)
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Microsoft has agreed to pay over $3 million in fines for selling software to sanctioned entities and individuals in Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Russia from 2012 to 2019 theverge.com/2023/4/7/236743… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674335/microsoft-sanctions-violations-treasury-fees-russia)
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more hardware for the Google graveyard 🪦
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https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1644383187043221517#m
I guess nobody at Sony has ever used a headset in a Call of Duty lobby then
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20 years ago Microsoft accidently got Neowin taken offline and I was talking to @CNET (https://nitter.moomoo.me/CNET) about it 🙃 how time flies. "Microsoft speaks, site goes dark" cnet.com/culture/microsoft-s… (https://www.cnet.com/culture/microsoft-speaks-site-goes-dark/)
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Logitech has some Superlight competition in both the specs and looks department. Love the @randomfrankp (https://nitter.moomoo.me/randomfrankp) color job on this Pulsar X2 👍
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1643939670852509701#m
Microsoft has added its Bing chatbot to SwiftKey on Android. You can get it to rewrite texts to friends or quickly access the AI-powered Bing Chat feature inside any app theverge.com/2023/4/6/236723… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23672351/microsoft-swiftkey-bing-chat-ai-feature-android)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1643904374031241216#m
Fake AI-generated images like this are usually easy to spot right now, but that’s changing. As AI models rapidly improve the future of misinformation is nearly upon us
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1643563319263895552#m
Call of Duty is now detecting and banning XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 third-party hardware cheats. Bungie told me in February it's also "currently investigating" its own solution to this form of cheating. Details here: theverge.com/2023/4/4/236699… (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669939/call-of-duty-warzone-xim-ban-suspension-warning)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tomwarren/status/1643316371546075137#m