Excitement abounds for Valve's quirky cuboid, Steam Machine. But the console-PC hybrid sounds awfully a lot like what Microsoft is hoping to accomplish with its next-generation hardware. Even in an ...

The Steam Machine challenges Xbox in the living room with the power of PC gaming. The Steam Machine challenges Xbox in the living room with the power of PC gaming. is a senior editor and author of ...

Head of Microsoft’s AI division Mustafa Suleyman thinks that AI developers and researchers should stop trying to build conscious AI. “I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman ...

Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event on Thursday, the company introduced a range of new features and updates for its AI ...

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Microsoft will sell a special edition Xbox controller to mark the 40th anniversary of legendary development studio Rare, just weeks after the company announced significant layoffs and the cancellation ...

Microsoft’s July Patch Might Be to Blame If Azure VM Isn’t Loading Your email has been sent Microsoft has released an emergency update to address a bug that prevents certain virtual machines hosted on ...

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

The big picture: Java stands as one of the enduring pillars of the software world. The programming language was released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, and so far has weathered the shifting ...

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...