Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation in mid-February

Microsoft is planning to share details about its plans to bring Hi-Fi Rush and other Xbox exclusives to PS5 and Nintendo Switch consoles, according to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans. Details of Microsoft’s multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend that the upcoming Indiana Jones game is being considered … Read more

The AI Industry Has a Not So Secret Weapon: Lobbyists

Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert (Getty Images) A new report from CNBC shows that lobbyists connected to the AI industry were quite busy last year. Indeed, in 2023, AI lobbying efforts shot up 185 percent from the previous year. The analysis, which is based on disclosures provided to the non-profit OpenSecrets, shows that the long list of … Read more

Congress Might Actually Do Something About AI, Thanks to Taylor Swift

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. What to Watch For: Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” What to Watch For: Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” vinyl sales Concerns about AI porn—or, more commonly “deepfake porn”—are not new. For years, countless women and girls have been subjected to a flood of … Read more

Everything You Should Know About the Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro is now officially on sale. Don’t worry if you were late to jump on the “spatial computing” hype train; there’s still plenty of time to get yourself one of the new $3,500 headsets if you’re really keen to see what the folks under CEO Tim Cook have cooked up. Top Takeaways … Read more

Get Microsoft Project 2021 Pro or Visio 2021 for $30 right now

Get Microsoft Project 2021 Pro or Visio 2021 on sale for $30.  StackSocial Project management is a central component of any successful business. While ensuring you have the best personnel overseeing operations as possible is in your best interest, so is securing a verified and capable software that can streamline as many operations as possible … Read more

Best Microsoft Office apps deal: 82% off

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2019 for Windows or Microsoft Office Home and Business 2019 for Mac for £31.47. Students, working professionals, and business owners alike would likely agree that Microsoft Office is the one software suite indispensable to their daily tasks and larger projects. However, as you’re probably already aware, accessing those apps isn’t … Read more

Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies

During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate.  With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. Weights are the contextual connections models make. … Read more

Get Microsoft Office Professional for Mac or PC for $70 with this deal

Download a lifetime license to Microsoft Office for over 65% off. StackSocial In a subscription-based world, it’s hard to come across an app or software package that you can use for life with just a one-time purchase. Thankfully, Microsoft offers a lifetime license to their well-loved app suite where you can do just that. Right … Read more

Microsoft (MSFT) Q2 earnings report 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, departs from federal court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft shares moved as much as 2% lower in extended trading on Tuesday after the software maker issued fiscal second-quarter results that outdid analysts’ estimates and a light quarterly revenue outlook. Here’s … Read more