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Today, Microsoft Edge Game Assist. Tomorrow, a Windows AI game buddy

Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Microsoft Edge Game Assist has worked its way through Microsoft’s development cycle, and has been released for everybody. It’s your new tool for solving those pesky puzzles in your favorite PC games. Even though we associate “Microsoft” with “Windows,” Microsoft has numerous little platforms that it bolts features on to. …

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Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says

Image Credits:NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images 2:01 PM PDT · May 31, 2025 It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in …

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NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’

Image Credits:Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images 1:05 PM PDT · May 31, 2025 The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby …

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Space Forge raises $30M Series A to make chip materials in space

From AI to EVs, demand for semiconductors is exploding, but silicon is hitting its limits. Making more efficient chips requires new materials, ones far less ubiquitous than sand, but the solution might be out there — literally. Space Forge, a U.K. startup headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, recently raised a £22.6 million (approximately $30 million) Series A …

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WordPad is dead in Windows 11, but Notepad is absorbing its skills

Image: Microsoft For years, Notepad has existed as a bare-bones text editor. No longer. Microsoft keeps adding to it, including a new update that includes capabilities that you might have expected in another Windows application, WordPad. Microsoft said Friday that it is adding “lightweight formatting” in Notepad, including markdown input and file support, but also …

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This fantasy Borderlands spin-off is free right now! Grab it before it ends

The shooter genre sometimes feels oversaturated with games that, like Battlefield and Call of Duty, only recognize serious campaign scenarios and lean far into gritty realism. This makes titles like the Borderlands franchise, which doesn’t take itself too seriously and is simply meant to be fun escapism, all the more refreshing. Even more refreshing than …

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Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic is laying off over a dozen staff

Playtonic, the creators of Yooka-Laylee, is laying off some of its staff, the developer and publisher announced on social media. The post doesn’t mention how many members of Playtonic will be effected, but does credit the layoffs to the company’s struggle with “a period of profound change in how games are created and funded.” Based …

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