Xbox maker needs some fresher ideas for expanding access to cloud gaming. Currently, Microsoft’s long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players that have a Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription. Now, new reporting suggests Microsoft is planning to offer non-subscribers access to game streams paid for by advertising in the…
Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, suggesting scientists have underestimated cow cognition Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss brown cow…
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before. If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself. Download a model file, load some plastic filament, push…
Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance. The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It is the…
Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. Tencia Benavidez, a Supernatural user who lives in New Mexico, started her VR workouts during the Covid pandemic. She has been a regular user in the five years since, calling the ability to work out in…
“I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy.” KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The rocket NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on a trip around the Moon will emerge from its assembly building on Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday for a slow crawl…
Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more. Rackspace’s new pricing for its email hosting services is “devastating,” according to a partner that has been using Rackspace as its email provider since 1999. In recent weeks, Rackspace updated its email hosting pricing. Its standard plan is now…
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an enormous medieval cargo ship lying on the seafloor off the Danish coast, and it reveals new details of medieval trade and life at sea. Archaeologists discovered the shipwreck while surveying…
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US. On Friday, OpenAI announced it will begin testing advertisements inside the ChatGPT app for some US users in a bid to expand its customer base and diversify revenue. The move represents a reversal for CEO Sam…
Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered. Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the deprecated function despite known weaknesses. The…
