Technolust: Eyes and Ears of the Beholder

A laptop like no other, a set of speaker like you’ve never seen before and a dream drone The laptop I’ve been waiting for isn’t even really a laptop, the speakers I want I could never afford, and the video-capable quadcopter I want is for professionals. All seems perfectly fair. Microsoft Surface Book Let me…

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Bungled Cortana Demo Joins List of Microsoft Live Event Fails

Confusing Cortana Live presentations are tricky business. No matter how much planning and practice goes into these things, there’s no guarantee that something won’t go wrong. Hey, it happens, and for Microsoft, it’s not ultra rare. The latest incident involves Microsoft boss Satya Nadella trying (unsuccessfully) to interact with Cortana during a live presentation. Nadella…

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It’s Over, Microsoft Has Officially Acquired Activision Blizzard

It’s done, says Mr. Frodo. Well, that’s that, folks. After Microsoft initially announced its intention to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard on January 18th, 2022, it’s only bloomin’ gone and closed the deal. The news comes after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approved the proposed acquisition following Microsoft’s amendment to the deal, foregoing…

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In-Game Graphics Settings Explained

A guide to interpreting game settings PC gamers have been fiddling with graphics settings since the dawn of time, but it takes a special kind of know-how to understand what each of those settings actually does. It doesn’t help that there aren’t any standard naming conventions, which means that options like “model” and “object” quality…

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