Obsidian Entertainment’s satirical sci-fi RPG returns in style: The Outer Worlds 2 will launch on October 29, 2025, across Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC, and will be available day one on Game Pass. The announcement, made during the Xbox Games Showcase, was accompanied by a new trailer brimming with the franchise’s signature wit…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that foundational skills in computational thinking remain essential, even as artificial intelligence transforms how software is built. In a recent conversation with tech YouTuber Sajjaad Khade, Nadella encouraged aspiring developers to focus on the fundamentals of software engineering, despite the growing role of AI in coding. “Just getting real fundamentals…
Microsoft is now testing a new feature in Notepad that can generate text for you using AI. It’s part of a Windows 11 update being released to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels with Copilot Plus PCs. The update also includes new AI-powered features for Paint like a sticker generator, and improvements to…
Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files. Four image actions are…
Microsoft has increased the prices of Xbox products across the globe and the new prices have been applicable from May 1. The price hike includes consoles, controllers, accessories, as well as first party games. The category that gets the maximum price hike is console. The Xbox Series X gets a price hike of…
It is April 2025. My daughters are sprawled on the living room couch, Netflix humming in the background, texting their friends. A WhatsApp call buzzes on the side. Their digital lives flow seamlessly. They barely register what’s happening in the world of tech. Skype is being taken off life-support by Microsoft. May 5 is its…
We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time, and now the software maker is making it available to all Copilot Plus PCs. Recall, a feature that screenshots almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC, will be available today alongside an improved AI-powered Windows search interface and a new Click…
Microsoft researchers claim to have developed the first 1-bit large language model with 2 billion parameters. The model, BitNet b1.58 2B4T, can run on commercial CPUs such as Apple’s M2. “Trained on a corpus of 4 trillion tokens, this model demonstrates how native 1-bit LLMs can achieve performance comparable to leading open-weight, full-precision models of…
Thousands of people swooned in a dark conference hall that felt more like a rock concert when a Microsoft product manager demonstrated the company’s latest feature: how to sum numbers in Excel, with the click of a button. “It was literally like Mick Jagger walked out,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer, who…
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, ending the app’s two-decade run as a pioneer in video calling. The move signals Microsoft’s full shift toward Teams, its all-in-one messaging and video platform. “At this point, putting all our focus behind Teams will let us give a simpler message and drive faster innovation,”…
