Elon Musk to Buy Twitter for $44 Billion

It’s official: Twitter announced today that it has agreed to a sale to billionaire Elon Musk for about $44 billion. Musk will take the firm private. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon’s proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” Twitter board…

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Sony’s PS5 Controller Now Supports Firmware Updates on Windows PCs

It’s now possible to update the firmware of Sony’s PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers on Windows 10 and Windows 11, no PS5 console required. Sony announced today the release of a new Firmware updater app on Windows which supports updates via a wired USB connection.  Sony releases DualSense firmware updates quite…

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Chris Novak Leaves Xbox After Almost 20 Years

Head of Xbox Research & Design Chris Novak announced yesterday that he is leaving Microsoft after almost 20 years. “I have loved my time with Xbox,” Novak writes in a LinkedIn post explaining his departure. “Building end-to-end experiences for gamers is a privilege. There are very few things one gets…

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Xbox Game Pass Will Soon Get More Ubisoft Games

Microsoft has just revealed the second wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in April, which includes the former PlayStation console exclusive Bugsnax and the zombie survival game 7 Days to Die. The company also announced that more Ubisoft games are coming soon to Xbox Game Pass, including a…

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Microsoft Announces First Xbox Game Pass Titles for April

Microsoft has just revealed the first new games that will join the Xbox Game Pass catalog in April. The headliners are the baseball game MLB The Show 22, which is joining the gaming subscription service on its launch day today alongside Cricket 2022. The episodic game Life is Strange: True…

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Microsoft Announces Major Updates to Windows 365

As part of its hybrid work event today, Microsoft announced several useful enhancements to Windows 365, its Cloud PC offering. “As the pandemic begins to slowly recede, and companies look to adopt more permanent hybrid work strategies, new integrated features are needed to enable more flexible ways of working,” Microsoft…

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Microsoft Releases Edge Version 100

Two weeks after it landed in the Beta channel, Microsoft has released Edge version 100 to Stable, making it available to all users. There are several new features, none major: Lightweight PDF preview. When you open a PDF file from File Explorer or Microsoft Outlook, a lightweight new and Edge-based…

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Microsoft Opens [email protected] Program to All Game Developers

Microsoft announced at the Games Developer Conference this morning that its [email protected] program is now open to all game developers. The new program previously launched in closed beta last year, and it aims to help small developers embrace the same cloud services used by the most popular games on the…

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Microsoft Teams is Getting Hybrid Work Updates

Five years into the Microsoft Teams era, Microsoft is adapting this versatile product to better fit into the intra/post-pandemic world of hybrid work. “Today, more than 270 million people rely on Teams for hybrid work,” Microsoft vice president Nicole Herskowitz explains. “Over 50 percent of organizations have standardized on Teams,…

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