Microsoft has announced the launch of xCloud and Xbox Remote Play cloud video game services through the Xbox app for Windows devices so that users can enjoy full gaming experiences, even if the capabilities of the devices they are using are modest.
The idea of Microsoft’s cloud-playing services is based on playing games on the company’s servers directly, and then the games are played and broadcast to the user’s device, regardless of their capabilities in terms of data and graphics processing, according to what the company published on the official Xbox blog.
Microsoft had made its xCloud service available on users’ devices via Internet browsers but in the form of a standalone application that works directly across the desktop, greatly improving the experience.
The provision of Remote Play for Windows devices is also a major addition, as it will make it easier for gamers to broadcast the games they play on Xbox devices, such as Xbox Series One, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X, to Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices when it is officially available so that they can follow the game freely anywhere.
And in order for the user to enjoy the new services, he must have a device running Windows 10, a game controller that works with “Bluetooth” or supports working with a USB-C port, as well as a subscription to the Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate service.
Facebook has unveiled its long-awaited smart glasses, in partnership with Ray-Ban, to enter the emerging market for wearable mobile devices, with a focus on capturing images rather than augmented reality.
On Thursday, the social network showcased the Ray-Ban Stories glasses, which are a direct competitor to Snapchat’s Spectacles.
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The $299 Facebook glasses use classic Wayfarer frames from Ray-Ban subsidiary Essilor Luxottica and allow users to take photos and videos, listen to music and answer phone calls. While it lacks augmented reality technology, which adds digital content using what the eye sees as a background, Facebook says it plans to eventually add this feature.
“We’re building on AR glasses as the next computing platform,” Monisha Perkash, a product manager at Facebook, said in an interview. “We see it as a very important first step toward realizing that vision.”
US aviation authorities will only allow travel for Virgin Galactic’s space plane after an investigation into whether the July 11 flight’s aberration threatened public safety.
The US Aviation Administration is reviewing the reasons why SpaceShipTwo flew outside the area it had designated for it during its space flight, which carried company founder Richard Branson and others, but the plane landed safely.
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In an emailed statement, the FAA said: “Virgin Galactic cannot return the SpaceShipTwo to flight until the FAA has approved the final investigation report into the disruption, or has concluded that issues with it do not affect public safety. “.
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The company said in an emailed statement that it was working with the Federal Aviation Administration to study a flight deviation that did not endanger passengers or the public. “We are taking this very seriously, are currently addressing the causes of the problem, and deciding how to prevent it from occurring on future flights… We have worked closely with the Federal Aviation Administration to support a comprehensive review and timely resolution of this issue,” she said in the statement.
Virgin Galactic shares fell 2.9% to $26.01 at the New York close on the FAA news.
Next flight Virgin Galactic was planning its next space flight later this month or early October, and the company said in an earlier statement Thursday that it was decided that the research flight would include two members of the Italian Air Force, a flight engineer, and an employee of Virgin Galactic. Virgin declined to comment on whether the flight schedule, the company’s first commercial research mission, would be affected by the FAA’s decision.
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The Federal Aviation Administration regulates commercial spaceflight and establishes rules for protecting the public on the ground, which is not related to the flights, as well as protecting other aircraft in close proximity to launches. But Congress has prevented the administration from setting safety standards for crew members.
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The New Yorker reported Wednesday that the flight was skewed due to the spacecraft being outside its optimal landing path. A craft usually floats into the atmosphere using devices designed to maintain its stability and reduce its speed.
The company said on the same day that the vehicle, which turns into a glider immediately after entering the denser air, flew under an area designated by the Federal Aviation Administration to prevent conflict with other aircraft, adding that the vehicle remained outside the protected area for one minute and 41 seconds, before returning to the field. Protected air for the rest of the flight.
“Although the final flight path deviated from our initial plan, it was a controlled and deliberate path, allowing Unity 22 to reach space and land safely at our spaceport in New Mexico,” the company said in a statement Wednesday.
If you search for “Klarna” on the “Tik Tok” platform, you will find young people talking sarcastically about the debts they incurred using the popular “Buy Now Pay Later” app. Some dance as “debts in deferred” comment appears on the video, after footage of them using the Klarna app to shop and buy clothes. Others share videos of the company’s payment requests with the “I know you’re obsessed with me” comment from a remixed song.
Joila Luisa shared a video with the caption: “When you put on a new outfit and Klarna reminds you to pay for it.” Although she seems annoyed by the fact that she doesn’t like the bill to be paid, she can’t stop it. “In the past, when I didn’t have the money, I simply couldn’t shop. Now with” Klarna, I can do that.
Buy now, pay later Postpay applications have a double-edged aspect to the concern of financial regulators. While young “fashion stars” on Tik Tok see the potential risk of taking on short-term debt through these apps when they pay off, the temptations are too great for them.
Credit rating companies express concern that this increasingly widespread financing option may encourage more reckless borrowing. The high demand for Klarna (average client age is 33) by millennials and Generation Z helped the company receive a valuation of $45.6 billion in the latest funding round led by Soft’s Vision Fund 2 Bank”.
A triple-digit sales increase this year didn’t save Aston Martin from a multi-million dollar profit loss, but the company is seeing a marked improvement, for the first time in a long time.
On August 24, the financial regulator announced that it had found no irregularities, following allegations of insider trading between Aston Martin Lagonda and Daimler AG. The investigation conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Finance, known as (BaFin), examined the purchase of a stake in “Aston Martin” by the head of “Formula 1” of Mercedes-Benz, as the relationship between the two brands caused a lot of suspicion in the sector, Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes, also owns a minority stake in Aston Martin.
This was a new victory for the prestigious British car manufacturer in the recent period, which comes after a long list of repeated failures, as the company has a long history of mismanagement over its 108-year history, which in turn led to 7 bankruptcies, the last of which was in 1974, and asked to close in 2014.
Also, a few years ago, the company’s products were just boring and flashy, one example being the 2018 DB11 Volante Carica. Also, we can’t forget the bad IPO, in which shares fell 6.5% on the first day, It fell 75% soon after.
few sales To this day, the company’s association with James Bond continues, and Aston Martin sells less than 5,000 cars worldwide annually, a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands sold by Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. In 2020, Aston Martin sold 4,150 cars around the world, decreasing its sales by 32% compared to 2019.
But this year already looks better for the company, as Aston announced in July that its sales increased by 224% in the first half of 2021. The company sold 2,901 cars around the world in the first half of 2021, and more than half of its sales were Model D DBX sports utility vehicles, valued at $189,000. Aston Martin says it is on track to sell 6,000 vehicles by the end of 2021.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (50) has announced the market launch of the prototype of a humanoid robot called “Tesla Bot”. Musk spoke on Thursday (local time) on the occasion of the company’s “AI Day” (“Artificial Intelligence Day”) – that the robot could take on dangerous, repetitive, or boring tasks in the future. The robot with the human-like appearance will have “profound effects on the economy,” said the entrepreneur. “In the future, physical work will be an option. If you want to do it, you can do it, but you don’t have to do it.”
The Tesla Bot will be around five feet eight inches (1.73 meters) high, weigh 57 kilograms and be able to do numerous jobs, from attaching screws to cars to picking up purchases in the store. The Tesla robot will be equipped with eight cameras and a fully-fledged self-driving computer and use the same tools that Tesla uses in the car. He sees the robot as the answer to a shortage of skilled workers. It is important not to let the machine turn out to be “super expensive”.
“He’s supposed to be friendly, of course,” Musk explained. The robot will also be designed in such a way that it is not particularly fast. “You will
“The most difficult thing about a useful humanoid robot is that” it cannot navigate the world without being specifically trained. “But that has to work line by line without explicit instructions. The device gets” a kind of screen at the head for useful information “, but otherwise run autonomously.
At a time when American political parties are seeking to settle new social media applications that are free from content controls and free of opponents, such as the Jeter and Ramble applications, and before them Parler, the “Polemix ” application was recently launched as a social networking platform that pursues a different philosophy based on the idea of debates and adopts “ Convince me if you can” is a slogan for it, while followers consider it “Tik Tok Ideas”, given the similarity in the general form of the two applications.
Over the past weeks, in an exclusive beta space, the Polemix app has been launched, which its creators claim, in their description across the Apple Store and Play Store, is “the opposite of all social networks”.
During the initial browsing of the application, it appears very similar to the Tik Tok application, short videos (30 seconds) are the basic format of the content, while scrolling above allows skipping the video clip to the next, just like “Tik Tok”.
On Polemix , the debate begins with the seemingly simple question “Will America miss Trump?”, “Is America racist?”, “Does money buy happiness?”, “Did COVID-19 leak from a Wuhan lab?” Is Beyoncé better than Madonna?”, and after the question, it is the turn of the opponents and those in agreement to explain their views through short videos.
As for the voting options, they are limited to: “I am satisfied with you”, or “I respect you, but I oppose you” so that the result appears similar to the results of opinion polls.
Google has warned users of old Android systems, especially the “Gingerbread” version, that they will not be able to access their Google accounts or use its applications, starting from next September 27.
According to what was published by the 91mobiles website, Google indicated that its decision seeks to provide the best use environment for users, preserving their privacy and electronic security.
The company, in a message that reached some users, has specified the old versions of Android that will be affected by the decision, which is Android 2.3.7, known as “Gingerbread”, and older than that, and users of those systems must update to devices running Android versions 3.0 or later, to continue enjoying the company’s services.
What will happen on September 27? By the appointed date, users of older Android versions will encounter a message saying that the username or password is wrong when the user tries to access any of the Google services, add or create an account, or try to log in with a Google account on any phone that works with one Old version, or trying to change your Google account password on an old Android phone.
Google indicated that users of old Android phones will still be able to use its services via Internet browsers from their phones, with the exception of Google Chrome, but it advises them to update their phones to new versions or buy phones that support newer versions of Android 2.3.7.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Blue Origin space missions, offered NASA a $2 billion discount on Monday in exchange for his company building a lunar lander.
NASA’s contract, worth about $2.9 billion, to build a manned lander on the moon, was awarded last April to the competing company, “SpaceX”, owned by American billionaire Elon Musk, but “Blue Origin” and a third company, “Dynetics”, submitted objections to the outcome of the tender. The US Audit Bureau has not yet decided on them.
The United States seeks to return to the moon by 2024 within the “Artemis” program, in preparation for a manned mission to Mars in the thirties of this century.
And Bezos considered, in a letter to NASA, that his offer allows “to bridge the funding shortfall” that prompted the US Agency to award the contract to one company instead of two competing.
Blue Origin has launched a frantic lobbying campaign to overturn the decision since it failed to win a NASA bid, prompting the US Senate to pass a bill approving $10 billion for a manned lander.
But the bill is still being debated in the House of Representatives and its opponents have described it as a “Bezos bailout.”
Bezos pointed out that one of the advantages of the “Blue Moon” lander that his company is building is its use of liquid hydrogen as a fuel, as it can be extracted from the moon’s ice, which coincides with NASA’s plans to use the moon to fuel rockets during distant operations in the solar system.
He added that the company will, at its own expense, conduct Earth orbit tests on its lander.
“We are ready to help NASA reduce its technical risks, resolve its financial constraints, and return the Artemis program to a more competitive, credible, and sustainable path,” Bezos said.
It is not certain that Bezos’ last-minute initiative will change the outcome of the bidding.
Audiences were stunned when they witnessed James Bond fly his AMC Matador Coupe in 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun. To them, a flying car was a futuristic idea that they would never see in their lifetime. Well, now it’s finally here, in ours…
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AirCar, a combined transportation vehicle that can drive and fly, took an important step earlier this week towards pioneering a new form of mobility. For the first time ever, the flying car made a flight between two cities.
The AirCar, piloted by founder Štefan Klein, took off from Nitra’s small airport and arrived at Bratislava’s international airport 35 minutes later. He covered a distance of 66 kilometers this way. In a video ( shown below), shared by the manufacturer, it is easy to see how the flight went and how the plane transforms itself into a car for two people after the flight.
The first prototype must complete the mandatory 50 hours of test flights. Klein is planning to build a second prototype with a new design and more powerful propulsion, which will allow a substantial increase in cruising speed. The vehicle will require an international certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
A second prototype is also under development. AirCar Prototype 2, as the model is called for now, will be equipped with a 300 hp engine and is expected to have a cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour and a range of 1,000 kilometers. The intention is for the model to receive aircraft certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
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