At the GDC 2022, Microsoft officially announced a new cloud gaming division within Xbox Game Studios Publishing that aims to “partner with world-class game development teams to develop cloud-native games” exclusively for Xbox systems and services (via Video Games Chronicle ). The new division is headed by former Portal lead designer Kim Swift, who joined Xbox last year as cloud gaming director. Besides Portal, she has been involved in other Valve projects, most notably Left 4 Dead and its sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, where she also played a leading role in development....

The regret of deleting files accidentally is REAL. You permanent delete files(Shift+Delete) from places on your computer due to the habit of hand. And the worst part is that they cannot be restored from the Recycle Bin either. They have vanished into thin air. After that, we get into the panic mode and start trying every data recovery software under the sun. Microsoft has launched the free Windows File Recovery App to reduce the hassle of using a third-party data recovery app....

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced that it is planning to phase out its so-called artificial intelligence-based “emotion recognition” tool from its Azure Face facial recognition services citing privacy concerns. Experts have severely criticized such “emotion recognition” tools, as facial expressions and emotions differ depending on the country and race, which makes it inappropriate to equate external displays of feelings with internal emotions. The Redmond giant has reportedly been reviewing the emotion recognition systems since last year to check whether they are rooted in science....

Microsoft has started rolling out the launch of the limited preview of its Family Safety app on iOS and Android devices. For those unaware, in March this year, Microsoft rebranded the consumer versions of Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family , and it introduced some new apps. One of them is the Family Safety app for Windows and Xbox devices, which is designed to help parents manage kids screen time and app usage, as well as ensure that their family is safe in the physical and digital worlds....

Microsoft recently confirmed that a “misconfigured endpoint” was responsible for the exposure and leak of Microsoft customer data. The security lapse left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet without any authentication. Well, the misconfiguration of the Azure Blob Storage was spotted on September 24, 2022, by cybersecurity company SOCRadar. This entire leak has been termed as BlueBleed. Even though Microsoft hasn’t revealed the exact number of impacted customers, SOCRadar suggests that the leak affected 65,000 entities in 111 countries....

As the world has started to rely more and more on being online all the time, tools like screen recording software have become crucial. A reliable screen recorder is needed to get your point across, send messages, show new staff how to operate your business systems, and even make gaming videos for YouTube. There are so many reasons to record screen activities on your computer and share them with others....

Hacker group Going with the Handle ‘BMpoC’ Hacked and defaced 14 subdomains of NASA, as a protest to war. Yesterday the websites of NASA for – Ames Academy for Space Exploration, the NASA Lunar Science Institute, the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition, the Kepler Mission, the Office of Planetary Protection, Virtual Astrobiology, and Moon Fest 2009. SA Was hacked and defaced by the hacker group, List of the websites and their mirror, can be seen from the paste here...

Cybersecurity researchers at the Cleafy Threat Intelligence team have discovered a new variant of the Medusa banking trojan that has returned to Android devices after evading detection for nearly a year. It has been spotted in new campaigns to target users in France, Italy, the United States, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. Discovered in 2020, Medusa (also known as TangleBot) is a sophisticated malware family with Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities....

Security researchers from CyberArk Labs have discovered vulnerabilities in popular antivirus solutions that could be exploited by threat actors to gain more privileges on the targeted system. In a report published by CyberArk Labs, experts have pointed out that anti-malware solutions that are supposed to protect the user may unintentionally assist malware in increasing privileges on the system. Anti-malware products seem to be a lot more vulnerable to exploitation because of their high privileges, which could be abused to gain elevated permissions via file manipulation attacks....

Nintendo added four new free NES And SNES video games to the Nintendo Switch Online Library on February 19th. Nintendo had first added SNES games to Switch Online membership in September 2018, which included famous titles such as Stunt Race FX , Super Mario Kart , Super Mario World , The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and more . After its initial SNES rollout in 2018, the company released new titles only in December 2019, which featured six games, including Super Punch-Out, Star Fox 2, and Breath of Fire II ....

Look who’s making a comeback after ten years – the popular viral mobile game “Flappy Bird.” Yes, you read it right!!! After being pulled out of the App Store more than ten years ago, Flappy Bird, a simple yet addictive mobile game, will return with an expanded version across multiple platforms, including web browsers, by the end of October. It is expected to be released on the native app versions of Android and iOS sometime in 2025....

PUBG mobile fans are patiently waiting for the PUBG Mobile Season 3 which will come with more incredible features and updates. PUBG Mobile’s journey so far How PUBG Mobile game works? How to play? PUBG Mobile Season 3 Release Date- What new is expected in PUBG Mobile Season 3? PUBG Mobile’s journey so far The popular Battle Royale game made its way into the players’ iOS since its first release by Tencent on App Store on March 19, 2018, with millions of people downloading it....

A chess competition between a seven-year-old boy and a chess-playing robot took an ugly turn when the latter grabbed and broke the boy’s finger during a match at the Moscow Chess Open Tournament on July 19. The robot was finishing its move when the boy reached over the board to grab a piece taken by the machine to make his own move, which was apparently against the safety rules. As a result, this prompted the robot to pinch the boy’s finger....

A new study concluded by German researchers suggests that an increase in low-quality content and SEO spam has declined the quality of search results. Researchers from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence recently completed a year-long study analyzing search results from Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. For the study titled “Is Google Getting Worse?”, the researchers examined 7,392 product review queries across Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo to see how the content is artificially optimized to be ranked higher in search results and get more clicks....

With artificial intelligence (AI) making its presence felt across various industries, a Danish engineer has used the AI tool to create an incredible new invention – a camera without a lens. Yes, you read it right! Bjørn Karmann, an Amsterdam-based senior experience and interaction designer, has developed a specialized AI camera prototype called “Paragraphica” to take photos without a lens. Instead, the camera uses the location data of the photographer to create an AI-generated picture of the scene....

Computer bugs or coding errors are a common phenomenon in the tech world as almost all software being developed has bugs. Any software which has a bug since the start of its lifecycle and is discovered later is called a zero-day. Every day we hear such zero-days being discovered making it easy for hackers to hack into the system or your PC. Though such bugs cost big money, there are many such instances that such software errors have caused losses in millions of dollars....

The top three Wi-Fi pen testing tools in Kali Linux Every hacker and security researcher loves Kali Linux. The developers of Kali Linux ethical hacking distro have released the second Kali Rolling ISO release i.e. Kali 2016.2 . Just like the previous one, Kali promises to deliver lots of new updates and changes in this release. Over the course of past few months, Kali developers have been busy adding new tools to Kali and fixing multiple bugs....

The U.S. government is actively encouraging countries facing American tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump to approve Elon Musk -owned satellite internet company, Starlink, according to internal communications obtained by The Washington Post . While no explicit trade concessions are being offered in exchange for adopting Starlink, diplomatic cables reveal that “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has increasingly instructed officials to push for regulatory approvals for Musk’s satellite firm,” The Post reports in nations including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam....

This article will guide you on how to use SFC /Scannow command to repair corrupted Windows system files. The System file check is a utility tool in Windows that let users scan and fix corrupted files. SFC /Scannow command when run scans all the protected system files and replaces the corrupted system files with a cached copy of the file located at %WinDir%\System32\dllcache . Note: You can use SFC /Scannow command on Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , and Windows Vista...

WhatsApp has just gone an inch better. The instant messaging app has announced the inclusion of WhatsApp Communities and a few new features that will come for the ‘WhatsApp Groups’ section. Here’s more about it. WhatsApp Launches Communities WhatsApp Groups gets new features WhatsApp Launches Communities Once the feature is available to the masses, users will be able to join communities of their schools, restaurants, NGOs, local clubs, and others without any hassle....