Twitter ding-dong as cathedrals battle to be crowned champions on social media

The battle to be crowned the best cathedral in England and Wales on social media may seem an unlikely place for a gentle war of words, but social media managers…

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Pokemon Go news: New event release, EX Raid reveal, Legendary update

A new Pokemon Go event is kicking off this weekend, although it won’t be as far-reaching as the recent Halloween run. Unlike the spooky event that just finished, the new Pokemon Go…

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Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing Kinect, but Its Technology Will Live on With the HoloLens

HIGHLIGHTS Microsoft has confirmed that it will no longer make Kinect Kinect's core tech lives on in Hololens It sold 35 million units since its 2010 debut Microsoft’s Kinect which debuted on…

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Steam Digital Gift Cards Finally Launched

HIGHLIGHTS Digital gift cards are available in five denominations Recipients of digital gift cards need to be on your friends' list You can't purchase gift cards through your Steam wallet…

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Intel Optane SSD 900P Launched, Promises 4X Speed Improvement Over PCIe SSDs

HIGHLIGHTS The Optane SSD 900P is based on Intel and Micron's 3D Xpoint technology It promises blazing fast speeds in conventional usage scenarios 280GB and 480GB models are available worldwide…

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UPDATE: Microsoft earnings: Cloud may maintain $600 billion market cap

With market cap higher than $600 billion for first time since dot-com boom, Microsoft depending on commercial cloud offerings As Microsoft Corp.'s market valuation edges above a $600 billion mark…

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UPDATE 1-Microsoft’s profit beats estimates on gains from cloud services

(Adds details on quarterly earnings, shares) Oct 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as demand for its cloud computing services for companies rose and…

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Super Mario Odyssey Review

Whether as a moustachioed frog, tank, bullet or T-Rex, players will spend as much time inhabiting the bodies of their foes as the title character's trademark dungarees in Super Mario Odyssey.…

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The Kinect was good. It just wasn’t good for gaming.

Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential. Although the Kinect wasn't exactly a huge success and barely supported any…

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Gaming addiction probably isn’t a real condition, study suggests

There may be no such thing as internet gaming addiction. People play excessively not because they are hooked on gaming itself, but because they feel unhappy about other areas of…

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