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Microsoft has revealed the games “Xbox Game Pass” and “Xbox Live Gold” subscribers will get through the Games with Gold program during the second month of 2021. In February, the company is making available $104.95 worth of games, including Gears 5, Resident Evil, and Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition. Also, through Backwards Compatibility, you will be able to play Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb and Lost Planet 2. On Xbox One and Xbox Series X (and Series S), throughout February 2021, members will be able to download Gears 5 ($39....

Virtual reality is going big. Key Takeaways Facebook is trying to jumpstart the metaverse with a new virtual reality headset and rebranding effort. The metaverse is a term used to describe shared virtual world environments which people can access via the internet.But users still face hurdles with the cost, comfort, capability, and complexity of virtual reality headsets that could allow better access to the metaverse. Facebook is working on a new high-end VR headset codenamed Project Cambria....

STB is an acronym for the set-top box, which is a device that takes the source signals as input and displays them to your TV or any other display device in the synchronized form of audio and video. The new generation STBs can even connect to Wi-Fi or the internet and can enhance your viewing experience by allowing you to watch content that is available on online platforms. To keep your STB running and continue watching the content, you need to pay some service charges to your service provider, which can be either monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly....

Wetwear, which stands for wet software, has come to mean a few different things over the years, but it usually refers to the mixture of software, hardware, and biology. The word originally referred to the association between software code and genetic code, where an organism’s DNA, which is physically wet, resembles software instructions. In other words, wetware references the software that belongs to a living organism—the instructions contained within its DNA, similar to how the instructions behind a computer program are called its software or firmware....

There can be many factors that go into choosing a video capture device for your computer. With prices ranging from only $20 to up to over $200, making the decision doesn’t have to be difficult or costly. There are a lot of options, however, (a quick search on Tigerdirect provided 24 results) and here we’ll attempt to help you choose the device that’s right for you. Usage What do you want to capture?...

Leica’s latest smartphone is a relaunched Sharp Aquos R6 with a custom interface, and a big, round, metal lens cap. Yes, a lens cap. The Leitz Phone 1 is Sharp’s Aquos Android phone with a new shell and updated software.The phone has a huge one-inch sensor.Leica’s phone will only be available in Japan. Leica is known for two things. Extremely high-quality cameras and even more extreme prices. Its cheapest M-Series body goes for $7,795, without a lens, and the used market is equally high—this unusable, fire-damaged M4 from 1968 sold for £1,488 ($2,070) at auction in May....

Inspired by Bartertown from the Mad Max series, Junkertown is one of the favorite maps in Overwatch 2’s Escort game mode. This map of the remote inland region of Australia is home to Junkers and the Junker Queen. But players are unable to play on the map as the devs have disabled the map in all queues. So today let’s look at why the Junkertown map is disabled & removed in Overwatch 2 queues, and when is it coming back....

Open a ThinkPad and you’ll find something unique: a tiny, bright red joystick, not unlike a clown’s nose, that stands in contrast to the matte black surrounding it. Key Takeaways IBM brought TrackPoint to ThinkPad in October 1992 with the ThinkPad 700 and 700C.TrackPoint can make a laptop keyboard more comfortable by reducing hand movement.Lenovo altered TrackPoint in 2014’s X1 Carbon and removed it from the ThinkPad 11e, but changed course after fans rebelled....

Windows 10 build 10122 is now rolling out to Windows Insiders via the Fast ring of updates. The new preview brings a more stable and polished version of the operating system, and it includes various fixes and changes to the Start menu, Continuum, Microsoft Edge browser, among other changes. However, because the build has been released to the Fast ring there is a number of bugs and fewer workarounds, such as the case of frequent crashes in the Edge browser if Windows 10 is running on an AMD graphics system....

Microsoft will only release one feature update for Windows 10 each year. The change will align with the release cadence of Windows 11. The next major update will release during the second half of 2022. Microsoft has confirmed that it is changing the update cadence of Windows 10 from two to one feature update per year. This means that after the release of version 21H2 (November 2021 Update), every new major update will release during the second half of the following year....

Windows 10 receives the update KB5010342 bumping version number to build 19044.1526. The update is available for versions 21H2, 21H1, and 20H2. This rollout brings fixes and improvements. Older versions of Windows 10 also are getting new cumulative updates in February 2022. As part of the February Path Tuesday release, Microsoft is now making available the update “KB5010342” for devices using Windows 10 21H2, 21H1, and 20H2 with several fixes and improvements....

World Of Stands is a game developed by SpicyWater for Roblox. This game is based on the popular JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series. You get to use the Stand arrow and get your own Stand. So in this guide let us learn all the new and redeemable World Of Stands codes for Roblox February 2022 and learn how to redeem them. All World Of Stands Codes (January 2023) Here you can find all the currently valid, and working codes....

Despite Microsoft’s recent stumble over the Xbox Live Gold subscription price hike, Redmond’s recent years have been very positive. The introduction of the Xbox Game Pass service has certainly contributed in large part to this constant growth, above all thanks to its absolutely consumer-friendly nature that has allowed many users to always have a huge choice of games available – some even available from day one – at a monthly price affordable enough for anyone....

It is not a mystery that Microsoft has hidden many of the features designed for the native games of the Xbox Series X but, on June 25, 2020, the American company published an article just to talk in detail about this topic. The games with the sticker “optimized for Xbox Series X” have, in fact, been completely rebuilt to run on the platform, and therefore have better features than the versions for Xbox One....

Getting Linux installed on your machine of choice is not always easy, especially if you’re trying to multi-boot. With all the restrictions you have to worry about, it often becomes a game of trial and error. Luckily ZaReason, a company that builds computers optimized to work with Linux distributions, helps to alleviate those headaches. Today we’ll take a closer look at their MediaBox 5440 computer, a small form-factor Linux desktop that was sent to us for testing....

Founded in 2009, the Venmo app lets people easily transfer money between friends and family, rather than opening their wallets and pulling out cash. Even if you’re not using a mobile payment app like Venmo now, your friends probably are, and sooner or later they’ll send you a request or payment. “Just Venmo me.” Download the app, and you’ll get your money. (Resistance is futile!) Venmo is undoubtedly convenient, and it offers industry-standard security, but like any app or software that deals with finance, it’s not impervious to scams and fraud....

In case you are not aware, Microsoft has released the first developer preview of their Windows 8 for the public to test out. If you do not have the chance to test it out, follow us to see what new features are there and what to expect in the upcoming Windows 8. Windows 8 = Windows Phone 7? Now, if you have used Windows Phone 7 before, the first thing you notice about Windows 8 is the similarity in the user interface....

When Google Assistant voice commands don’t work, it’s usually because of some problem with the Google app. Some of the most common problems include incorrect permissions that prevent the Google app from accessing your microphone, accidentally turning off of voice commands, and corrupt data in the app. If your Google Assistant won’t accept voice commands, try each of the following fixes, in order, until it starts working again. If it still doesn’t work after you’ve exhausted all of these fixes, then you may have to wait for Google to address the specific problem that you’re experiencing....

If you’ve decided to switch from Android to iPhone, you’re making a great choice. But if you’ve been using Android long enough to accumulate a decent number of apps and a good-sized music library — to say nothing of photos, videos, contacts, and calendars — you may have questions about what you can transfer to your new phone. Luckily, you can bring most of your content and data, with a few notable exceptions....

The experts are always advising that you should have tough-to-guess passwords for your online accounts. This can be difficult since you probably have more than a few online accounts to remember the passwords for. Also, using one good password for various accounts is not a good idea either. To have secure passwords for all your accounts, you may turn to password managers. It sounds like a reasonable solution since not only do they allow you to save as many passwords as possible, they also help you create them as well....