GamingNews

Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core

July 19, 2023
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s incorporating it into Game Pass as a new tier called Core, which offers similar benefits to Live Gold, with some slight…
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MobileNews

Unopened first-gen iPhone sells at auction for $190,000

July 19, 2023
Someone with deep pockets has snapped up a piece of tech history after forking over $190,000 for a first-generation iPhone from 2007. That’s around 300 times the device’s original price. Don’t expect to fetch anything close to this kind of windfall by selling a 16-year-old smartphone you have stuffed in a drawer somewhere. This was a factory sealed device in “exceptional…
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DefenseNews

Defense Innovation Board pushes ‘Oasis’ fund for promising technology

July 18, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Board wants the Pentagon to create an “Oasis” of funding to help technology projects transition from development to production. In a July 17 report examining the U.S. Defense Department’s engagement with commercial companies and startups, the panel of former defense officials and industry experts recommend the Pentagon establishes a funding mechanism to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI commits $5M to local news partnership with the American Journalism Project

July 18, 2023
OpenAI isn’t done making waves in the media industry — far from it. The Sam Altman-led private company behind ChatGPT, last valued at close to $30 billion, today announced it has struck a partnership with the American Journalism Project (AJP), a non-profit philanthropic organization that has funded more than 40 media organizations across the U.S., in which OpenAI will gain access to more news…
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