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Microsoft says its next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett, is coming Fall 2020 and will support 8K gaming, be 4X as powerful as the Xbox One X — Project Scarlett arrives in fall 2020 — Microsoft is revealing the first details about its next-generation Xbox hardware today.
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Microsoft's xCloud console streaming service to let users stream their Xbox One library, including Xbox Game Pass, to many platforms; preview coming in October — Microsoft has been teasing its project xCloud game streaming service since October, and we're now starting to hear more details on how it will work.
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Microsoft acquires Psychonauts-maker Double Fine Productions, demos a trailer for Psychonauts 2 which is coming to Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, and PC — As it did last year, Microsoft used its Xbox E3 keynote to announce its moves in bulking up its in-house gaming content.
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Microsoft to ship Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 with USB-C, Bluetooth, adjustable tension thumbsticks, more responsive controls, on Nov. 4 for $180 — Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 — Microsoft is launching a new version of its popular Xbox Elite controller today at E3 2019.
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Microsoft launches Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which gives access to PC and Xbox games for $15/month and includes Xbox Live Gold — Xbox Live Gold is also included in the subscription — Microsoft first unveiled its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription earlier this year, with access to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass games.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels — Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that.| Joe Otterson / Variety: |
Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad-free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators — Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to buy self-driving car startup Drive.ai in a likely acquihire; Drive.ai has raised about $77M and was valued at about $200M in 2017 — Apple Inc. is preparing to buy startup Drive.ai in a small deal that will bring more engineers with experience …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics runs a traditional freight business, with 36 trucks and using about half of its staff, to learn the basics of trucking — The fleet includes 36 regular trucks and three autonomous ones — More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics … | Matt Simon / Wired: |
Inside an Amazon sorting facility, where humans work alongside mobile robots, known as drives, fueling Amazon's push toward widespread same-day delivery — THEY CALL ME the Master of Robots—or at least they should. I grab a flat package, hold its barcode under a red laser dot, and place it on a small orange robot.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Q&A with Stadia chief Phil Harrison on Google's commitment to the service, possibility of subscribing to libraries of individual publishers, free multiplayer — While Google does not have a show floor presence at the gaming conference, Stadia head Phil Harrison did sit down for his “only E3 interview” on Sunday.
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GetSafe, a mobile-only insurance provider that targets millennials in Germany and has 60K customers, raises €15M Series A, as it plans to expand to the UK — Getsafe, the German insurance startup targeting millennials, has raised $17 million (€15m) in a Series A funding.
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FAQ on how Sign In with Apple works based on information at WWDC, including details about two-factor authentication support and private email relay service — One of the bigger security announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple's new requirement … Sponsor Posts
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