The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. is the Verge’s weekend ...

Created for large-scale storage and everyday kitchens, the wrapper tracks the small chemical shifts food makes over time to help preserve its freshness. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...

NOTE: This article was published yesterday (30/10/2025), but due to some technical issues it went offline. Microsoft has officially added Python 3.14 to Azure App Service for Linux. Developers can now ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

Microsoft released Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK version 4.14.0, a stable update designed to support advanced AI workloads and enhance performance for data-driven applications. The release includes new ...

Thousands of users were reporting outages across Microsoft services and a variety of other products midday on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Microsoft Azure, a ...

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