“Some players prefer to conquer the virtual world with a pad in hand. Others, above all, value the precision of the mouse movements. Others, however, can not imagine playing on anything other than a keyboard. Now, owners of Xbox One consoles (including Xbox One S models and the latest Xbox One X) can choose these accessories and decide for themselves what they will use. ‘PC Master Race’? Thanks to the keyboard support, we can already successfully talk about ‘Xbox Master Race’,” says the post....

When the Xbox One launched, it had the ability to record gameplay footage. However, this came with serious limitations. For example, the console would compress the video to 720p and output it at 30 frames per second. Recordings were also limited to five minutes in length. These were understandable trade off’s considering the console had some limited resource budgets. By compressing the video and outputting it at a low frame rate, the console ensured videos could be uploaded quickly, but would not take power from the gameplay....

Design is the body language of your branding and the 4ps of marketing mix. You slouch and all your efforts may go down the drain or not get maximum returns. You get it right and you may just surpass your expectations. Go online and you will find some amazing creative brand designs coming from different businesses. Many business owners make the mistake of thinking of graphic design as just aesthetics....

Automation vs. Flow It is all about automation, something that is at the heart of the voice assistant idea. Alexa is simply taking it to the next level where the assistant will work with AI solutions and robots. In the example, AI will take the notification and automate a robot to deploy your goods into your vehicle. I started this article by suggesting Alexa is challenging Microsoft’s concept of computing....

A bitcoin mining company in Slovenia has been hacked and potentially lost tens of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoins. NiceHash, a mining company that mines the currency for paying customers says it was breached. A security investigation is now underway. The company says it will stop operations for 24 hours and verify how much bitcoin was stolen. The number is 4,700, according to research company Coindesk. Over recent weeks, the price of bitcoins has escalated, mirroring an upward trend throughout 2017....

The Andra Pradesh government says Azure Machine Learning powers its method for finding students who need education. Azure Machine Learning is a platform that allows users to create analytic solutions in a cloud-based environment. The service offers a simple UI and is noted for being a powerful tool for customers. The machine learning platform merges Microsoft’s cloud technology through Azure with its analytic tools such as Cortana Intelligence. Using cloud-based predictive analytics, the platform makes it easy to deploy predicative models....

HCI is a capability that has been drafted into Azure from Windows Server. Launched with Windows Server 2016, hyperconverged infrastructure allows customers to compute, run, and network on a single server in a cluster of servers. As a cost-effective solution, HCI can delivers high-performance storage for scaled deployments. Microsoft says HCI is available on Azure Stack through Azure subscriptions or from hardware partners. Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure says HCI brings even more power to the company’s Azure-in-a-box service: “We are bringing our existing HCI technology into the Azure Stack family for customers to run virtualized applications on-premises with direct access to Azure management services such as backup and disaster recovery....

Those benefits would be being a decentralized and anonymous platform. Bitcoin – the most famous, valuable, and widespread crypto – may not have been offering those perks at all. New research from a group of universities analyzed data from major crypto platforms during the early days of the industry. The information shows that during those early days the “wealth, income, and resources” of Bitcoin “were highly centralized”. Furthermore, the ways that the research team parsed and analyzed the data revealed the information of some users....

Tron is a company founded by Justin Sun, who used to be part of tech payment company Ripple Labs. On its website, Tron says it aims to decentralize internet computing and drive blockchain technology adoption online. The company will become independent on June 25 and seems to be celebrating with a reported $140 million purchase of BitTorrent. Considering Tron’s focus on entertainment through blockchain, it makes a lot of sense the company is interested in BitTorrent....

However, it’s a move Windows 10 users will also be happy with. It makes far more sense to hold browser addons in the actual browser, while forgoing the slowdowns of the Microsoft Store app. The addon page previously went live in early March, before Microsoft took it down. It made an appearance once more for Insiders on March 26 and is now available to all. The site functions much the same as the Google Chrome Web Store, letting users browse through a number of categories and simply click ‘Get’....

1 Microsoft Azure on the rise2 Google Cloud’s enterprise wins Bracelin states in his note that “alternatives to AWS are becoming more viable,” and clarifies that Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are gaining momentum. Microsoft Azure on the rise Microsoft heavily invested in Azure last year and continues to do so in 2017. In the last three months, the Redmond giant has announced several improvements to its cloud platform, such as:...

Of course, Dell has a sliding scale in terms of hardware, so those specs will vary slightly depending on the build. The minimum configuration will set you back about $1000, and the max around $1500. Dell Inspiron 27 7000 Specs The Inspiron 27 7000 will offer customers a choice between two CPU, GPU and PSU options in an effort to target two audiences. There’s basically a consumer-focused model and a professional/VR one, though Dell hasn’t said this outright: As well as what’s listed above, both models will have an extensive choice of storage options: 27″ InfinityEdge IPS, 3840×2160 or 1980×1080 AMD Ryzen 1700, 8 core, 3 – 3....

DTS Sound Unbound is an application that brings spatial audio to users. Windows 10 users can now control the playback on content that has audio decoded by DTS, including headphones. Windows 10 20H1 Insiders previewing next year’s Windows release may be wondering what the fuss is about. They have been testing the object-based spatial surround sound for some time. However, the app is now available generally for Windows 10 through the Microsoft Store....

In an email sent this morning to staff, Elon Musk says employees who want to stay with the company must sign the new agreements by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. If they do not, they can depart with severance pay. Musk has driven Twitter into a more hardcore company. Amongst the new commitments employees must work longer hours with more intensive workloads with “only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade....

Companies have exploited various gaps in legislation to pay less tax. A notable example is Apple, who received illegal state aid from Ireland. Specifically, Apple allegedly only paid between 0.005 percent and 1 percent in taxes between 2003 and 2014. For perspective, Ireland usually has a 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. The European Commission investigated Cupertino for three years, and could lay a $11 billion fine on Apple. That would be the biggest fine in EU history, surpassing the $2....

The functionality will start with Firefox 68, but Mozilla is planning to use BITS via a dedicated Background Update Agent from version 70 and onwards. “For now, Firefox will call out to BITS via an interface built in to the binary. This interface will, for now, communicate with BITS directly, but will be designed such that in the future it can communicate with BITS using the Update Agent as an intermediary,” explained Mozilla platform engineer Kirk Steuber (via Techdows) “This will allow it to manage BITS jobs as the Local Service user, which is how we want downloads to occur when the Update Agent downloads them independently....

It could prove infinitely useful. This year has featured several large-scale hacks, and unfortunately, that’s nothing out of the ordinary. Last year, Yahoo announced a hack that affected up to 1 billion users, and it 2014, its estimated that half of Americans had their personal information exposed. However, more scary are the hacks that don’t make huge headlines. Many reuse the same password on multiple sites, and one weak link means all of their accounts are exposed....

“As someone who worked at Microsoft for seventeen years, it is incredible to see Windows demoted to a product without a seat at the highest table (the most senior person with Windows in their job title is ‘merely’ a Corporate Vice President, last I checked, and is not part of the Senior Leadership Team),” he said in a Medium post. The reshuffle included the step down of the influential Terry Myerson, and the formation of two new divisions....

“IE6 had been the bane of our web development team’s existence. At least one to two weeks every major sprint cycle had to be dedicated to fixing new UI that was breaking in IE6,” he said. “We understood that we could not just drop support for it. However, sitting in that cafeteria, having only slept about a few hours each in the previous days, our compassion for these users had completely eroded away....

Because on Windows 10 systems, you CAN actually use an equalizer to adjust the system sound to your liking. It´s just not a native Windows 10 audio equalizer. If you search for a music equalizer in the audio settings of Windows 10, you won’t find anything there at first sight. Whether in Windows Mixer, Sound Settings, or Audio Options – Windows 10 itself doesn’t have an equalizer. However, this usually doesn’t mean that you have to compromise on sound adjustments for more or less bass and treble....