Microsoft is challenging players to ride the waves with its new surfing game, launched Tuesday. The game originally debuted as part of a hidden Easter egg hunt in November with a series of cryptic hints and puzzles posted by Microsoft employees. It’s now a permanent offline game for Microsoft Edge. The game encourages surfers to …
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For years, Android phone chips have trailed Apple iPhone processors in speed tests. But Arm, a chip company whose technology is used by both mobile camps, has a chip design project called X1 that should give Android a significant speed boost beyond its usual annual upgrade. One boost will come with the new Cortex-A78 processor design that Arm unveiled in May. …
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A limited preview of the Microsoft Family Safety app is now available for iOS and Android. The app is meant to help parents find a digital balance, giving their kids digital independence while still setting boundaries, Microsoft said in a recent release. The Family Safety app can help start conversations about internet safety and screen time limits. In addition, the …
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No matter how large a hard drive or solid-state drive you have in your PC or laptop, there will come a time when you run out of space. If you’re bumping up against your PC’s physical storage limit, here are some quick tricks you can use to reclaim a couple of gigabytes’ worth of storage space. These options will take …
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If you watched 50,000 games of Pac-Man, you’d probably be pretty good at drawing out what you saw. Nvidia’s GameGAN artificial intelligence model, however, was able to recreate the classic dot-chomping game for its 40th birthday from scratch without a traditional game engine in a matter of days. Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are made up of two competing neural networks. …
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What’s the best computer for an older person, someone in their 60s, 70s, 80s or beyond? That’s a tricky question, and it’s not meant to suggest that elderly users are somehow limited in their skills or capabilities. These generations simply didn’t have the benefit of growing up surrounded by screens, and they may have specific challenges associated with age. I’m …
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Google is making more moves into the video chatting space during the coronavirus pandemic, now providing its premium video conferencing service Google Meet free for consumers. Previously available only to organizations using G Suite, Meet is now open to everyone, in a move that puts Google in competition with rival video chat service Zoom. Now playing: Watch this: 3 video …
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Microsoft has built an enormous supercomputer for artificial intelligence work, a new direction for its Azure cloud computing service. The machine has 285,000 processor cores boosted by 10,000 graphics chips for OpenAI, a company that wants to ensure AI technology helps humans. Microsoft announced the machine at its Build conference for developers on Tuesday. (For more details on the event, …
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Facebook’s new group video chat feature Messenger Rooms is now available, and is ready to compete with services like Zoom, Skype, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, as more people turn to video chat during coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines. You can create a video chat room via Facebook or the Messenger app and invite up to 50 people to join a video call — even if they …
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Web apps, websites that can be converted into standalone apps, are moving closer toward becoming first-class software citizens on Windows 10. Google coined the term progressive web app, or PWA, to describe websites that can assume the power and prominence of conventional native apps you’d download from an app store. For a taste of PWAs, visit coronavirus.app, which with most …
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