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Bandwidth: Microsoft testing new Xbox Game Pass family plan, adds Ghost Recon Wildlands

August 6, 2022
This week marks a pretty hefty one where more games get sent up to the cloud and large companies like Microsoft start testing new features. Starting today, players in Ireland and Colombia will be able to test out a new feature that allows friends and family to share their Xbox Game Pass benefits. Xbox Game Pass’ family plan Xbox has one of the best cloud-gaming suites out there. You pay a flat…
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Waze appears to be struggling with performance issues on Android Auto and CarPlay

August 6, 2022
Google’s other navigation app, Waze, is an incredibly helpful way to stay informed on your route, but lately, the app has been suffering from lag issues on Android Auto and CarPlay for some. A trending support thread on Google’s forums as well as a second over on Waze’s own forums shows that there are quite a few Waze users seeing lag problems across CarPlay and Android Auto. The problem…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Meta unleashes BlenderBot 3 upon the internet, its most competent chat AI to date

August 6, 2022
More than half a decade after Microsoft’s truly monumental Taye debacle, the incident still stands as stark reminder of how quickly an AI can be corrupted after exposure to the internet’s potent toxicity and a warning against building bots without sufficiently robust behavioral tethers. On Friday, Meta’s AI Research division will see if its latest iteration of Blenderbot AI can…
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The Electrek Review: BMW i4 eDrive40 is low effort but still highly enjoyable experience

August 5, 2022
The BMW i4 eDrive40 delivered to my door by BMW looks almost indiscernible from a 4-series internal combustion engine vehicle. It even has what appear to be exhaust pipes out the back. I imagine the pitch for this car in some Bavarian BMW corporate office was something like: Look, Tesla is eating our lunch, let’s please just make an EV version of the 4 series to take on the Model 3. It will…
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