HomeHub is an odd name – there have been rumors about a Microsoft hardware product with the same name, which is meant to compete with the Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa. It appears, however, that HomeHub is a name reserved for something else – a feature, akin to the ‘Kids …
Read More »Watch Bill & Melinda Gates receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States of America; awarded by the President, it recognizes those who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” …
Read More »AccuWeather adds crowd-sourced AccUcast weather map to the Windows 10 app
AccuWeather has started rolling out an update for its Windows 10 UWP app, bearing the gift of feature parity with the iOS and Android apps. The latest update adds ‘AccUcast’ to the Windows 10 app – the feature lets users of AccuWeather submit their local weather conditions, which would then …
Read More »LEGO City Undercover is coming to Xbox One, PC and PS4 in 2017
LEGO City Undercover originally released in 2013 as a Nintendo Wii U exclusive – Warner Bros now wants to re-release it for the Xbox One, PC, PS4, and Nintendo’s new and upcoming Switch console. If you are not much into gaming – yes Warner Bros does more than just movies …
Read More »Windows 10 PCs can stream Xbox One games to Oculus Rift
Microsoft and Oculus are in a long-running partnership – every Oculus Rift ships with an Xbox One controller, for example; obviously, it’s because the Rift doesn’t have any controllers of its own, but it needs a controller for interaction. It is, however, not a one-way partnership – Microsoft gets something …
Read More »Netflix now supports 4K UHD streaming on Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge
Microsoft has been promoting its latest and greatest Edge browser in every way possible – what’s a better way to make people use the browser than adding exclusive features? Starting today, Netflix users will be able to stream content in 4K UHD – but only if they are using Microsoft …
Read More »Microsoft wants to emulate x86 apps on Windows 10 Mobile for Redstone 3
The Windows 10 Creators Update – codenamed Redstone 2 – is coming sometime in early 2017; the work on Redstone 3 has already begun – one of the features planned for it, is the ability to emulate x86 applications on the ARM64 architecture. If the terms we are using here …
Read More »Elder Scrolls Online to be free for Xbox Live Gold members this week
Elder Scrolls Online – the MMO by Bethesda set in the fantastical world of Tamriel, will be free to play starting from 23rd of November 12:01 AM EST, until 27th of November 11:59 PM EST. Though, the free-to-play week is only available to Xbox Live Gold members; the players will …
Read More »Microsoft does the Mannequin Challenge with HoloLens and Actiongram
There is a new meme amidst us – we have witnessed the Harlem Shakes and the several dozens of celebrities dropping a bucket of ice cold water on themselves; 2016, is now bringing us the Mannequin Challenge. The #ManequinChallenge apparently began with a bunch of school kids posing like mannequins …
Read More »ADR1FT cancelled on Xbox One
ADR1FT is a ‘first person experience’ game already out for PC and PS4, along with VR on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive; developed by Three One Zero and published by 505 Games, the game puts players in the shoes of an astronaut who is adrift in the wreckage of …
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