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Square Enix offers a timeline for when to expect Final Fantasy XIV open beta on Xbox Series X|S
By Alexander Cope last updated
FFXIV Open-Beta Get your Xbox Series X|S ready as the open beta for Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox shall begin during FFXIV Endwalker's Patch 6.5x cycle.
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Final Fantasy XIV gets a new Xbox open beta date window, alongside new Job announcements, playable races, and more
By Alexander Cope published
FFXIV Fanfest Japan Pictomancer and Beastmaster Jobs, female Hrothgar, a new start date for the Xbox Open Beta test, and more have been announced at 2024's Final Fantasy XIV FanFest in Japan
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XREAL's HoloLens-like Air 2 Ultra AR glasses give Apple's Vision Pro a run for its money even before it launches
By Kevin Okemwa published
STYLISH AR XREAL just unveiled its Air 2 Ultra AR glasses, which are expected to start shipping in March, but you can pre-order them for $699.
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Intellectual property theft? Non-fiction authors sue Microsoft and OpenAI in class action lawsuit mirroring New York Times case
By Colton Stradling published
Fair Use? In a similar argument as was seen in last week's suit by the New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI, a class action suit looking to protect creators' intellectual property.
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Microsoft is getting close to overtaking Apple as the most valuable US company
By Colton Stradling published
MSFT #1? Apple's $2.834 trillion market cap vs Microsoft's $2.752 value is an $82 billion difference, which is about the value of the recent ABK deal.
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Over 150,000 players have returned to play Monster Hunter: World on Steam in the last 24 hours — here's why
By Alexander Cope last updated
Return to MHW Monster Hunter: World, one of Capcom's most successful videogames in recent memory, is witnessing a gigantic surge of players returning to hunt on Steam.
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It's been 8 years since I first tried one of Microsoft's most underrated products and I still miss it every day
By Richard Devine published
❤ My first job at CES eight years ago was to buy the then US-exclusive Microsoft Band and I wish it was still around today.
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AMD's next CPU features an internal GPU that outranks one of the world's most popular graphics cards
By Sean Endicott published
impressive AMD is expected to announce several processors at CES 2024, and we now have benchmarks for one of them.
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