It has become one of the most predictable beats of races for console supremacy: first comes the new "generation" of video game systems, then comes an iteration with just a bit more muscle. This August, Microsoft will be betting big on the Xbox One S making up ground on Sony by giving the evolved PlayStation Neo ...
It is so easy to record and play videos today on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computer, but it has never been easy to share these with other devices until Bluetooth came along. And, it has never been easy to play such videos on other devices' screens, TVs or projectors, without having to first juggle with ...
In all scientific endeavors, this was Microsoft's most serious order of Not-At-All-Serious Business: if people were dogs, what kinds of dogs would we be? We need wonder no more. The world-leading software pioneers have developed What-Dog.net in the name of good, fascinatingly accurate fun from the UK-based facial ...
With versatile and powerful mobile computing now being essentially a must-have instead of a luxury, desktop PC sales are plummeting with the weight of being now almost awkwardly impractical for much more than intensive gaming. Even Windows 10 has somewhat disappointed users, fans and pundits alike who envisioned a ...
The Microsoft Surface Book just might represent the finest hour of the laptop and tablet combined. With a 13.5" detachable PixelSense™ display mated with an waifish full-size backlit keyboard and a tablet configuration option to bend back the screen into a OneNote and Surface Pen-compatible canvas, make no mistake: ...
Batman is fated to always eventually cross paths again with the Joker. Superman will never rid himself of Lex Luthor as long as both are alive. The Doctor has the Master. Bill Russell met Wilt Chamberlain time and time again. The Yankees and Red Sox will always collide every spring - and, occassionally, every fall. ...
We always knew this day would come: our enemies are about to get a whole lot smarter. Microsoft led off its October 2015 slate of new product announcements in New York by introducing the world to the tether-free HoloLens, a headset-based pioneer platform in "mixed-reality gaming" that pits players against ...
Are you a gaming guru? A master at mashing those button sequences? A duke of destruction? Alright, we’re sure you get it. You’re great at gaming, but if you’re a gaming professional who’s fed up with delays or epic fails from a lag in the controller you’re using you aren’t alone. PlayStation may have released a Pro ...
With all the fuss surrounding Apple's recent smartwatch announcements, you might easily have missed news of Microsoft's 'Band' product. This is a rival smartwatch that has been on the market a bit longer than Apple's offering (though only a few months now) and which has been large out of stock on Microsoft's own ...
When we first saw that scene with Tom Cruise flicking through data in Minority Report, pretty much everyone decided at once that that was what the future should look like. And actually one of the companies that has been working the very hardest to bring us that future is none other than Microsoft. First they ...
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