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Reçu — 17 septembre 2024 ⏭ Windows Central - News, Forums, Reviews, Help for Windows 10 and all things Microsoft.

Hands-on with Thunderbolt 5: Is this bleeding-edge dock a sensible set of future-proof ports or just trivial tech?

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Par : [email protected] (Ben Wilson)
17 septembre 2024 à 08:05
Kensington's SD5000T5 EQ Thunderbolt 5 Triple 4K Docking Station opens up even more connectivity with an all-new Thunderbolt 5 USB-C cable, even if your new laptop likely doesn't support it.

Kensington SD5000T5 EQ Thunderbolt 5 docking station with cable connections

What's new with printers on Windows 11 version 24H2 (2024 Update)

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Par : [email protected] (Mauro Huculak)
17 septembre 2024 à 07:59
The Windows 11 2024 Update rolls out some additional improvements for the printing experience, including the Protected Print Mode and options to pause jobs and rename your printer directly from the Settings app.

Windows 11 new printer settings

Bethesda took one look at Diablo 4’s microtransactions and said, "hold my beer"—introducing the $1,999 Fallout 76 bundle

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17 septembre 2024 à 07:19
Fallout 76 is currently showing a $1,999 cosmetics and atoms bundle on the Xbox store, but you can save $200 with your Xbox Game Pass subscription. It's obviously a misprice, but we wonder if anyone has actually purchased it.

Fallout 76

My all-time favorite Xbox controller is on sale with a massive discount before Black Friday even has a chance to start

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17 septembre 2024 à 07:03
Amazon offers a massive 33% discount for the Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma, my favorite wired gaming controller compatible with consoles and PC.

Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma with RGB effects enabled

Bill Gates says he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm to rival OpenAI and Google: "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that’s just] a few sketch ideas"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
17 septembre 2024 à 06:03
In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates indicated that he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm if he got another crack at the corporate world.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a keynote speech on the closing day of the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Microsoft cut Windows 7 support on Edge, but Mozilla says "enough" Firefox users are using it to extend support to March 2025: "Backporting security fixes is already getting increasingly painful due to the divergence"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
17 septembre 2024 à 04:20
Mozilla is extending Firefox 115's support on unsupported devices, including Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and macOS 10.12 to 10.14, and will continue pushing important updates until April 1, 2025. Firefox 115.21 will also continue receiving updates until March 4, 2025.

Mozilla Firefox on Windows

Reçu — 16 septembre 2024 ⏭ Windows Central - News, Forums, Reviews, Help for Windows 10 and all things Microsoft.

Overwatch 2 comes to Xbox Game Pass — but you can't play it on the cloud for one annoying reason

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16 septembre 2024 à 17:14
Overwatch 2 will be added to Xbox Game Pass on September 17, 2024. This means exclusive skins for subscribers, but unfortunately, there will be no Xbox Cloud Gaming for one easily missed reason.

Overwatch 2

Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
16 septembre 2024 à 16:04
Microsoft leverages robots by Dobot Robotics to disassemble defective hard disk drives and recycle valuable components to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025.

Seagate IronWolf

Is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on Xbox Game Pass?

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
16 septembre 2024 à 15:50
Following its recent launch, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has proven to be one of 2024's biggest games. But can you play it on Xbox Game Pass? We have the answers.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 preview inferno swarm

Blizzard is on the edge of making World of Warcraft truly amazing for endgame solo players for the first time in 20 years — but balance has been an ongoing nightmare

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
16 septembre 2024 à 14:50
Blizzard's "Delves" in World of Warcraft have been incredibly fun and rewarding, or horribly painful and depressing, depending on which class you ask. WoW has been designed all up for group play for the past two decades, which is clearly making its new solo dungeon "Delves" a nightmare to balance.

World of Warcraft: The War Within

Diablo 4 has made $1 billion and counting for Blizzard, and a huge chunk of that comes from devilish microtransactions

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Par : [email protected] (Brendan Lowry)
16 septembre 2024 à 12:46
Thanks to new details from a Blizzard developer's LinkedIn profile, we've gotten a glimpse of how much Diablo 4 has made in revenue — and how much of it comes from microtransactions.

Diablo 4 Season 4 journey

Starfield gets a video deep dive for its upcoming 'Shattered Space' DLC expansion, "... it has backfired horribly for House Va'ruun."

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
16 septembre 2024 à 12:06
House Va'ruun takes center stage in Starfield: Shattered Space. Bethesda shared a deep look at its first DLC expansion, and how horror themes and melee combat will play a bigger role than in previous stories.

Starfield Shattered Space DLC

Bill Gates' AI agent dream comes to pass at Microsoft's special Copilot event with Copilot agents

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
16 septembre 2024 à 11:00
Microsoft shipped Copilot agents in general availability "to automate and execute business processes, working with or for humans."

Microsoft Copilot logo

Microsoft unveils Copilot Pages — a digital canvas for multiplayer AI collaboration at work

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Par : [email protected] (Zac Bowden)
16 septembre 2024 à 11:00
Microsoft has today announced Copilot Pages, a new persistent canvas in Microsoft Business Chat that enables “multiplayer AI collaboration.”

HONOR MagicBook Art 14 (2024)

A new AMD graphics feature massively increases framerates with AI tech for smoother gameplay, but there's a catch

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Par : [email protected] (Cale Hunt)
16 septembre 2024 à 10:28
AMD's AFMF 2 technology brings AI enhancements to your integrated graphics, significantly boosting frame rates in demanding games. Ryzen AI 300 CPU users can (probably) take immediate advantage, but there is a catch.

ASUS Zenbook S 16

This $800 OLED laptop is incredible value, but it does have one glaring weakness

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Par : [email protected] (Zachary Boddy)
16 septembre 2024 à 10:00
The ASUS Zenbook 14 (Q415M) is a brilliant Windows laptop for just $800, especially with the beautiful OLED display, but 8GB of non-upgradeable RAM is a sore spot.

Image of the ASUS Zenbook 14 (Q415M) Windows laptop.

6 non-AI features I'm excited about on Windows 11 version 24H2 (2024 Update)

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Par : [email protected] (Mauro Huculak)
16 septembre 2024 à 08:00
Windows 11 version 24H2 brings several new features that don't come with AI integration, and in this guide, I will outline the best ones that everyone should know.

Windows 11 version 24H2 features without AI

Microsoft has scrapped Edge's big UI refresh with rounded tabs

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Par : [email protected] (Zac Bowden)
16 septembre 2024 à 08:00
Unveiled last year, Microsoft was working on a new look and feel for Edge that included rounded tabs and a heavier use of acrylic blur effects. Now, the company says this UI update is no longer coming.

The new Edge UI as unveiled by MIcrosoft

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro vs. Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2: Which is best for you?

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Par : [email protected] (Jez Corden)
16 septembre 2024 à 07:00
Razer Wolverine V3 Pro vs. Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2: We pit Razer and Xbox's most premium console and PC gaming controllers against each other in this epic show down. Examining ergonomics, sticks and controls, software, value for money, accessories, and much more.

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro controller

"When you use the model, you save enormous amounts of energy" — NVIDIA CEO says they can't do graphics anymore without AI

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Par : [email protected] (Richard Devine)
16 septembre 2024 à 06:44
NVIDIA's CEO has been talking all things AI, and there are some quotes which are particularly pertinent to PC gaming, and, surprisingly for AI, where it's more energy efficient.

Zotac GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO

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