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Microsoft says its next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett, is coming Fall 2020 and will support 8K gaming, be 4X as powerful as the Xbox One X — Project Scarlett arrives in fall 2020 — Microsoft is revealing the first details about its next-generation Xbox hardware today.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's xCloud console streaming service to let users stream their Xbox One library, including Xbox Game Pass, to many platforms; preview coming in October — Microsoft has been teasing its project xCloud game streaming service since October, and we're now starting to hear more details on how it will work.
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Microsoft launches Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which gives access to PC and Xbox games for $15/month and includes Xbox Live Gold — Xbox Live Gold is also included in the subscription — Microsoft first unveiled its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription earlier this year, with access to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass games.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Psychonauts-maker Double Fine Productions, demos a trailer for Psychonauts 2 which is coming to Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, and PC — As it did last year, Microsoft used its Xbox E3 keynote to announce its moves in bulking up its in-house gaming content.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal — On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
UK-based Privitar, which provides data privacy software for large organizations including HSBC and UK's NHS, raises $40M Series B led by Accel — Privitar, a software startup that helps enterprises and other organizations engineer privacy protection into their various data projects …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels — Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that.| Joe Otterson / Variety: |
Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad-free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators — Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to buy self-driving car startup Drive.ai in a likely acquihire; Drive.ai has raised about $77M and was valued at about $200M in 2017 — Apple Inc. is preparing to buy startup Drive.ai in a small deal that will bring more engineers with experience …
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The Information, CNBC, 9to5Mac, Dallas Innovates, The Next Web, and Firstpost Tech
Tweets: @efranz13, @powerpage, @dallasinnovates, @amir, @tweetermeyer, and @alexeheath
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Election Systems & Software says it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns — Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
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MIT Technology Review and Engadget
Tweets: @mattblaze, @bmcclendon, @rollcall, @zackwhittaker, and @dnvolz
| Matt Simon / Wired: |
Inside an Amazon sorting facility, where humans work alongside mobile robots, known as drives, fueling Amazon's push toward widespread same-day delivery — THEY CALL ME the Master of Robots—or at least they should. I grab a flat package, hold its barcode under a red laser dot, and place it on a small orange robot.| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A look at EverQuest, the 20-year-old game that served as the model for many other MMORPGs, inspired over a dozen spin-offs, and is still running to this day — A game born in an era of dial-up Internet is still doing well after all this time—how?! — Twenty years ago …
Tweets: @arstechnica
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