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Xbox’s Switch 2 competitor may have hit the wall as Microsoft presses pause on handheld console
We’ve heard numerous rumors about Microsoft working on an Xbox handheld gaming console to compete with the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch 2. The console is said to be a native Xbox handheld, but a new report suggests that Microsoft is shelving it to focus on other priorities. According to a report by Windows Central, Microsoft has decided to…
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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, the company behind Half-Life and DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike and preeminent PC game distribution platform Steam, has long toyed with the idea that your brain should be more connected to your PC. It began over a decade ago with in-house psychologists studying people’s biological responses to video games; Valve once considered earlobe monitors for…
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Instagram’s Threads: everything you need to know about the new Twitter competitor
In an interview about Threads with The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri explains why the platform wants to take on Twitter. “Obviously, Twitter pioneered the space,” Mosseri says. “And there are a lot of good offerings out there for public conversations. But just given everything that was going on, we thought there was an opportunity to build something that was…
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Europe’s Starlink competitor is go
The EU has signed a deal for its IRIS² constellation of 290 communication satellites that will operate in both medium and low Earth orbit. The Starlink rival will provide secure connectivity to governmental users as well as private companies and European citizens, and bring high-speed internet to dead-zones. The public-private deal valued at €10.6 billion (about $11 billion), according to The Financial Times, is…
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Microsoft hit with £1 billion lawsuit over claims it’s “punishing UK businesses” for using competitor cloud services
Microsoft is facing a £1 billion lawsuit in the UK over claims that it’s been overcharging customers for using rival cloud platforms. Those using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Alibaba Cloud rather than Microsoft Azure, it claims, were charged higher licensing fees for Windows Server. Customers licensing Windows Server via AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Alibaba…
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HPE announces VM Essentials – the VMWare competitor that isn’t
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled Virtual Machine Essentials (VME) this week at its annual European conference, HPE Discover Barcelona 2024. The company’s virtual machine plans were teased in June at its flagship conference but are now finally starting to be made available to customers outside of just its private cloud offering. VME is available both as an embedded software…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search, a Direct Competitor to Google
ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Team subscribers, and SearchGPT waitlist members can use OpenAI’s generative search engine starting today, the AI giant announced on Oct. 31. That might be a Halloween scare for Google Search, as OpenAI directly targets pulling users away from Google’s algorithm. OpenAI created a Chrome extension to set ChatGPT search as the browser’s default search engine. ChatGPT search…
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