GamingNews

The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood launches in June

January 27, 2021
ZeniMax Online Studios revealed information for The Elder Scrolls: Online’s yearlong Gates of Oblivion adventure, including details for the Blackwood chapter release. The Elder Scrolls Online debuted in 2014 and has a dedicated following thanks to a steady release of content updates. ESO got rid of its subscription years ago, instead making money by charging for big content drops like this…
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MobileNews

iOS 14.4 rolls out with Bluetooth audio monitoring

January 27, 2021
Apple has started rolling out iOS 14.4 to iPhone and iPad users. While not as a meaty of an update as iOS 14.3, it comes with a handful of small enhancements. To start, you’ll find a new option within the Settings menu that allows you to designate the type of third-party…
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Plex Arcade launches to let users curate and play ROM games and Atari classics on iPhone, Apple TV

January 27, 2021
Plex has built a following over the years as one of the best options to curate your media collection and make it available to stream across your Apple and other devices. Now the company is diving into gaming with a notable partnership with Atari to bring some of the most classic games to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and more as well as giving users the ability to store and play their own ROM games. …
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Plex Arcade features a bunch of old-school Atari games

January 27, 2021
Media streaming service Plex is moving beyond TV, movies, audio and photos. Starting today, you can play a bunch of Atari games through a Plex Arcade subscription. Plex has teamed up with Parsec to offer classics like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command and Super…
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Microsoft's profits jump by 33 percent thanks to the cloud, PCs and Xbox

January 27, 2021
Another quarter, another booming earnings report from Microsoft. But what’s notable for Q2 2021is that it isn’t just the cloud driving the company forward this time. The company reported revenues of $43.1 billion, up 17 percent from last year. That’s $2.9 billion more than what analysts were expecting. Even more impressive, its profit jumped by 33 percent to reach $15.5 billion. During the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers built an AI that plays chess like a person, not a super computer

January 27, 2021
We mere mortals haven’t truly been competitive against artificial intelligence in chess in a long time. It’s been 15 years since a human has conquered a computer in a chess tournament. However, a team of researchers have developed an AI chess engine that doesn’t set out to crush us puny humans — it tries to play like us.  The Maia engine doesn’t necessarily play the best…
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