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The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Xbox headset includes hardware that lets you connect two gaming systems at once and switch between them. It's currently at its lowest price of $174.99.
Microsoft has reportedly signed a publishing deal with Hundred Star, a London-based game studio founded in 2023 by the original co-founders of Rocksteady, the makers of the Batman: Arkham games.
Microsoft has announced that the OneNote note-taking apps for Windows, the web, and Teams are adding support for synced-up Loop components like tablets, checklists, code, and many more.
Microsoft has revealed how it has made recent improvements to its Edge web browser to speed up its performance. That includes the reveal of a new internal Edge project called WebUI 2.0.
Microsoft has revealed that it will not be retiring the Live Events feature in Teams on September 30 as originally planned. It also announced new functions for the Team Town Hall feature.
Google has announced that it is adding a number of AI features for all devices in the Chromebook Plus laptop lineup, including access to its Gemini chatbot, the "Help me write" feature, and more.
Microsoft has confirmed that Call of Duty Black Ops 6 will indeed be a Day One release for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. The live-action teaser trailer for the game has also dropped.
Microsoft has announced that creators of business content that access SharePoint Pages and News can now utilize video page templates, which can also be used for the Stream web app.
OpenAI has announced that members of its Board of Directors have formed a new Safety and Security Committee after reports came out earlier in May that it shut down its superalignment team.
Konami has announced it will hold a new "installment" of its Silent Hill Transmission on Thursday, May 30. It plans to reveal some gaming-related news, along with an update on the third movie version.
Microsoft has updated the beta version of its Microsoft Launcher app for Android smartphones and tablets, finally adding support for the Copilot generative AI chatbot into the app's feed.
The 83-inch Samsung 4K OLED S90C TV includes features like a slim 4mm design and Quantum Dot technology for superior image quality. It's currently at its lowest price ever at $2,997.99 at Amazon.
Microsoft has put out an alert about a cybercriminals group labeled Storm-0539. The group has allegedly used cloud and identity services to target gift card portals for major retailers.
Microsoft has revealed that its Outlook Lite email client for Android devices now supports SMS, allowing its users to send and receive SMS messages from within the email Android app.
Microsoft has announced it is rolling out the new and improved Sticky Notes feature for all users of the OneNote app for Windows, after testing it with members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program.
Lenovo is reportedly working on a "lite" version of its Legion Go portable gaming PC that would be a more affordable version of the current device which has detachable controllers and more.
A new teaser trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops 6 seems to confirm previous rumors that it will be set in the 1990s. A live-action trailer for Activision's upcoming shooter is due on Tuesday, May 28.
The 65-inch Samsung OLED 4K S95C Series smart TV, with its Slim One Connect box and thin design, has had its price slashed to a new low of $1,997.99, or $1,300 off its $3,297.99 MSRP.
xAI, the generative AI company founded by Elon Musk, just announced it had raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round to help boost the development of its Grok AI model, among other projects.
Apple will reportedly include adding support for users of iOS 18 to make their own emojis via generative AI, as part of the company's push towards adding more AI features for iPhones.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6-inch Windows 11 Pro laptop has a 12th Gen Intel Core i5 1235U CPU with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It has hit a new all-time low price of only $399.99 at Amazon
In this week's look back at new entries on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap site, Teams will add a new feature called Channel Card sometime in July, and Outlook will update its scheduling assistant.
ICQ, an instant messaging service that launched in 1996 and was very popular at one time in the US, is officially shutting down operations on June 24, nearly 28 years after it launched.
The fifth-generation Apple iPad Air tablet, with 256GB of storage and a 10.9-inch display, has hit an all-new and all-time low price. It's currently available for $549.99 at Amazon.
Oxide Games has announced it will be holding its third Technical Alpha test in June for the upcoming strategy game Ara: History Untold sometime in June for members of the game's Insider program.
The families of the Uvalde school shooting victims have filed lawsuits against Activision and others this week. The families allege Activision's Call of Duty games influenced the shooter.
A recent study from Purdue University stated that when a series of Stack Overflow programming questions were asked of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot returned wrong answers 52 percent of the time.
Microsoft has added even more Copilot AI features to its Forms service. They include having Copilot create new questions for new or existing forms and help with rewriting questions.
Google started adding its AI Overviews feature for US users of Search this month. However, it has already been highly criticized for creating search summaries that contain obvious factual errors.
A new entry in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap shows that Excel will soon add more ways for users to interact with the spreadsheet program via Copilot, including explaining formula errors and more.
The 2024 editions of the Hisense A7 Series Google TVs have already had big discounts. You can get the 43-Inch model for $198 at Amazon, or you can get the big 65-inch version for $399.99.
AMD has launched a new version of its Radeon Adrenalin Edition drivers that add support for Radeon Anti-Lag 2, a new version of its low latency tech that's being tested with Valve's Counter-Strike 2.
Microsoft has released a fresh Windows 11 build for members of the Insider program in the Beta Channel. The new 22635.3646 build has some unnamed general improvements and a list of bug fixes.
The 55-inch Samsung QN90C Neo QLED 4K TV with both Samsung's Smart TV OS and its cloud Gaming Hub, is down to $997.99 at Amazon. That's a big discount of $1,000 of its $1,997.99 MSRP.
Microsoft says its Copilot generative AI assistant is "continuing to recover" after an outage occurred in its Bing search engine API earlier this morning. Bing is still out for some users.
Microsoft has revealed it has created a new AI prediction model for its Start weather service. It can now better predict when clouds and rain might happen via both radar and satellite data.
Games Workshop announced a bunch of upcoming updates for many of the video games in its Warhammer franchise today, including a beta for the Speed Freeks vehicle combat game and much more.
Microsoft is giving Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access to nine Warhammer-themed video games for free from now until the end of the day on Sunday, May 26.
Activision has confirmed that the next game in the Call of Duty first-person shooter series will be titled Black Ops 6. The reveal was first made today via full-page ads in newspapers like USA Today.