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For Honor may be less than a year old, but it feels like forever since Ubisoft’s medieval fighting game first launched. Much of this is do to its failure to hold a large player base, with many pointing to the game’s lack of dedicated servers as their reason for dropping off. Fortunately Ubisoft stated months ago that dedicated servers would make their way into the game, and after a brief testing period last month, they’ll finally release for everyone in February with the game’s Season V content (via Eurogamer).Titled For Honor: Age of Wolves, the new season arriving on February 15 features “changes to the fighting system, new customization options, and major gameplay updates to five Heroes a...

Earlier this week, Opera released v50 release candidate build of their desktop web browser that includes an iovative anti-Bitcoin mining feature, improved VR support for Oculus and Chromecast, and more.Cryptocurrency is currently a hot topic in the tech scene and it also tus out to be an easy way to make money. So some website owners are making use of the compute power of their readers for mining Bitcoin and others using cryptocurrency mining scripts. If you recently noticedyour computer getting hotter, fans kicking in often, battery draining fast on laptops, there is a high chance that your computer is being used to mine for cryptocurrency. To avoid such illegal usage of compute power by we...

At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit two Windows on ARM devices were aounced, the HP Envy x2 and the Asus NovaGo.Despite appearing ready, the HP Envy x2 is only shipping in Spring next year, but the impression Qualcomm and Microsoftgave was that the Asus NovaGo should be hitting shelves shortly.We reported earlier thatnot all Coected PC features were ready, with some being targetted at Spring 2018, with Redstone 4, and suggested the HP Envy x2 may be waiting for then to launch.It appears at least in some regions the Asus NovaGowill also be arriving around the same time or even later.Engadget notes:The HP Envy x2 will be available in spring next year, while no timeframe has been shared for the ASU...

Microsoft is working with Novartis to create an application that can be used by the visually impaired or blind to describescenes captures by the camera of a smartphone audibly and thereby improve the independence of users.TheViaopta Hello app is available in preview for iOS, Android and Windows and features:Uses Cognitive services and Microsoft latest image analysis technology to identify people, items and scene.The mobile app uses the Smartphones camera to take pictures of objects or people and then uses the back-end cognitive services to provide a description.The desktop app can provide a description of the content of pictures from any available document library, and if the picture contain...

At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit two Windows on ARM devices were aounced, the HP Envy x2 and the Asus NovaGo.Despite appearing ready, the HP Envy x2 is only shipping in Spring next year, while the Asus NovaGo should be hitting shelves shortly.It tus out there may be a reason for HP’s delay, as it appears Windows 10 is not quite ready yet to support all the scenariosMicrosoft envisions for the product.In particular according to a slide deck from the WinHEC Fall 2017 workshop discovered by WalkingCat, one important out of the box experience for Windows 10 on ARM will only be arriving with Redstone 4.The ability to easily provision your device from Microsoft’s Mobile Plans app appears not yet av...

In an expose on Microsoft’s response to Consumer Report’s Surface Reliability claims, Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott made some pretty significant claims about Microsoft’s hardware unit and the reasons why its current range of devices have fallen somewhat flat when it comes to iovative features. ...

Microsoft today released new Windows Server Insider Build 16257 to Insiders. This build includes support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allowing developers and admins to run unmodified Linux (ELF64) binaries natively. Read more about it here. This build also includes theDelivery Optimizatio...

Whenever an enterprise considers Google’s G Suite, the first thing its IT team wants to know is how well it can work well with the existing setup. In most of the organizations around the world, Microsoft Exchange is the de facto standard for e-mail and calendaring. It is important for G Suite to wo...

Today, Ubisoft aounced the For Honor development schedule which details a steady rollout of new content releases and improvements to the overall game experience for the rest of the calendar year and leading into 2018. The schedule is headlined by two seasons launching in 2017, alongside plans to ...

According to EA, FIFA 14’s servers will be shut down in a few months. While many people always move onto the next FIFA game each year, there are still many who play previous titles. Well, on October 18, the game’s servers will cease to function. This includes all online services like Ultimate Team....

Microsoft today aounced the release of first release candidate of SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2017 comes with tier-1 support for Linux as it includes the same high availability solutions on Linux as Windows Server, including Always On availability groups integrated with Linux native clustering so...

Microsoft has applied for a patent which could mean the above lady could soon be out of a job. Their patent for “Automatic capture of information from audio data and computer operating context” would have an AI listening in on your every conversation, listening out for the trigger word, which would...

Microsoft is releasing the first ever Windows Insider build for Windows Server. The company has been releasing Windows 10 Insider builds for the PC, Mobile devices, and even IoT devices for a few years now. With today’s release, Microsoft is also bringing its Windows Insider program to the server. ...

Invites for Tom Clancy’s The Division’s Public Test Server have started rolling out to Xbox One and PS4 console users in Europe, with invites heading to the America’s tomorrow, July 12. The PTS, which has been available for PC gamers since September of last year, will allow console users to try out...