$30 Switch Game Is Unplayable Forever After Cloud Shutdown, Even in Single-Player Mode [Updated]
… Nintendo games that use cloud streaming are effectively not played on the local console at all. …
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Microsoft Says 20 Percent of Xbox Cloud Gaming Subscribers Use Touch Controls Only
… The blog post in question is aimed at developers to get them interested in adding touch controls to streaming titles. Microsoft stresses that devs don't need to make any changes to their underlying game code just some tweaks to the cloud aware plugin , and it has sample layouts available on GitHub. …
Intel Details XPU Strategy, Launches New Server GPU, OneAPI Gold
… This new instantiation of the Xe-LP architecture has four separate graphics chips and work in tandem to process video streaming workloads, video transcoding workloads, and as a solution for Android game streaming. …
Microsoft Unveils Business Subscription Model for Windows, Office
… In a recent post, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, wrote about Opens in a new window a new Microsoft cloud initiative dubbed Microsoft 365, which "brings together Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, delivering a complete, intelligent and secure… …
Xbox Reveal: Xbox 720 is now the Xbox One, with 8-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and Kinect 2.0
… Hopefully, the Microsoft press event at E3 will answer all of these burning questions. …
Welcome to Late Stage Capitalism, Where One Company Buys Another and Your Stuff Stops Working
… What if Hollywood studios or streaming services were required to pay royalties for every song in a movie for a given period? …
This Week in Space: A Quasar That's Redder Than Red
… How can Webb peer through the clouds? My colleague Ryan Whitwam explains : "The structures are composed of cool interstellar gas, which looked mostly opaque to Hubble. However, the JWST’s infrared NIRCam makes the clouds semi-transparent. …
Apple CarPlay: Is that all there is for now?
… Siri processes your voice in the cloud. …
DIY: Extending Wi-Fi throughout your house
… Its initial setup wizard requires access to the cloud, which sometimes isn't possible without configuration and passwords. …