More games announced for Xbox Game Pass PC, including Halo Reach and Yakuza titles

Something to look forward to: Microsoft’s Inside Xbox event is in full swing. One of the many announcements relates to the Xbox Game Pass, which will be receiving more than 50 new games over the next few months.

At the London event , it was revealed that titles including Final Fantasy 7 through to 15, Rage 2, Flight Simulator, and Halo Reach are all coming to the PC version of the subscription service.

Microsoft is also trying to tempt people onto its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate option,


Apple store worker fired for sending customer's intimate photo to his own phone

WTF?! If you’re handing over your unlocked phone to someone for repair, make sure to delete anything sensitive or personal. Just ask Gloria Fuentes, who discovered an Apple Store employee texted one of her intimate photos to himself.

As the Washington Post reports, Fuentes had an appointment on November 4 to have her iPhone screen repaired. Sensibly, she deleted all social media and financial apps beforehand and was going to remove all her photos as well, but the store brought the appointment forward a few hours, meaning


Microsoft xCloud preview adds 50 games and shoots for a 2020 launch

Something to look forward to: With Stadia's launch mere days away, Microsoft is upping the ante in the cloud-gaming race. The company is expanding its Project xCloud service, which is currently in closed beta, by 50 games, more markets, and more invites to player-testers. It is also planning to branch out to additional devices and add support for third-party controllers.

In a bid to lure more players away from Stadia, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is adding over 50

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Apple launches Research app, opens three health studies for people in the US

In brief: Apple is looking to capture as much of the health and wellness market as it can, after achieving great success with the Apple Watch among consumers. The company is launching three new medical studies for iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US, which it says will help develop better products in the future.

Apple currently leads in the smartwatch space and has gradually augmented the capabilities of the Apple

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Nvidia's quarterly earnings beat expectations thanks to gaming and hyperscale growth

What just happened? Nvidia has revealed its third-quarter financial results, and while the company did beat expectations, revenue fell 5 percent compared to the same quarter one year ago.

In the quarter ending October 27, Nvidia reported revenue of $3.01 billion. While that’s down from the $3.18 billion a year earlier, it’s a 17 percent jump over the $2.58 billion from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were

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First impressions of Motorola's new foldable Razr smartphone

Bottom line: Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X did flexible display technology no favors. Motorola seems to have corrected many of the injustices that these phones delivered but whether or not they’ve satisfactorily quelled all shortcomings remains to be seen.

Motorola’s original Razr was the first mobile phone that I ever actually desired . I’d owned plenty of handsets before that and even liked some of them – I have a fond place in my heart for the infinitely customizable Nokia 5110,

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New Jersey says Uber is 'misclassifying' drivers as contractors, asks for $650 million in overdue employment taxes

In context: Uber has been battling with state regulators for years over the status of its employees. Uber wants to continue classifying them as contractors, but many authorities feel they should be considered full employees, and thus be granted all the benefits that come with such a status, including paid time off and sick leave.

For Uber, classifying its drivers as employees would probably be quite the nightmare scenario. The added expenses that would come with giving its workers full benefits might not sink the company, but it would certainly take


Google is bringing RCS support to its Messages app

Google today announced that the latest generation of person-to-person mobile messaging is now available for US Android users. We are, of course, talking about "RCS," or Rich Communication Services, which is often considered the successor to traditional SMS messaging.

RCS messaging supports read receipts, seamless messaging over Wi-Fi, as well as the ability to send and receive high-res photos, videos, and stickers. If that's not enough, Android's RCS implementation also brings some extra group


In a nutshell: Hardly anyone would say that social media is good for you, yet billions use it in one form or another (often concurrently) every single day. These platforms make billions of of dollars by addicting users and getting them to to click ads. One Wikipedia founder wants to change that with a new social media site that is supported by the users rather than big advertisers.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is launching a social-media website called WT: Social . The platform aims to compete with Facebook

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Halo: Reach is reportedly coming to PC on December 3

Highly anticipated: Since Halo's Master Chief Collection (MCC) was first announced for PC, fans have been quite excited, to say the least. The Collection is bringing several Halo titles to the platform for the first time ever, including the likes of Halo: 3, Halo: 4, Halo: ODST, and Halo: Reach.

Since Halo's Master Chief Collection (MCC) was first announced for PC, fans have been quite excited, to say the least. The Collection is bringing several Halo

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