Category: Software

Microsoft has unveiled the new Xbox Game Pass Core plan, which will replace Xbox Live Gold and the Games with Gold service. The new subscription will offer users access to in-game multiplayer, various offers and discounts, and access to a small catalog of select games, including Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4 and Psychonauts 2. The launch of the subscription is scheduled for September 14. Also, it will give you access to online multiplayer and a collection of over 25 games for $10 a month or $60 a year.

Microsoft's Head of Gaming, Phil Spencer, has announced that Xbox and PlayStation have reached an agreement to release Call of Duty on PlayStation. It will remain available after the completion of the deal with Activision Blizzard.

Google is testing NotebookLM, an AI-powered app for working with local text documents. NotebookLM stands for Notebook Language Model.

Irdeto, the owner of Denuvo's anti-piracy protection technology, are going to prove to demonstrate that its product does not negatively impact game performance. For that, they are going to start a program allowing trusted media to compare game performance with and without Denuvo's protection.

Google has announced a major update to its chatbot, Bard, which can now communicate in 40 languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. The chatbot is now available in most countries worldwide, including Brazil and EU countries.

The ICQ app is no longer available on the Google Play app store. This indicates that its development for Android has been abandoned. So from now, the official version can only be found in Huawei's AppGallery. Its last update was released back on January 26, 2021.

Enthusiasts have created the Windows Update Restored website to provide updates for PCs running older versions of Windows, such as Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. The project aims to support users who, for some reason, still utilize these outdated operating systems from Microsoft.

Mozilla has launched the MDN Playground platform, allowing users to preview and share HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code snippets directly in the browser. It supports editing code, seeing real-time results, and features built-in support for the Prettier tool. MDN Playground is pretty similar to the CodePen community and offers free usage for developers.

The Dev Box cloud workstations have entered general availability. First introduced the Microsoft Build 2022 developer conference, the cloud workstations are now available to developers and corporate clients. The devices have undergone testing with repositories of significant size, ranging in the hundreds of gigabytes. Microsoft reported that the Dev Box is already being utilized by 10,000 engineers and multiple customers in production environments.

In ChatGPT, the GPT-4 model now allows using the Code Interpreter plugin. The plugin is capable to run Python code directly within the chatbot interface. It makes possible to perform data analysis, image processing, code editing, and more. It also supports file uploads within the chatbot interface with a limit of 100 MB.