Xbox is carving a new path for the future. This comes straight from Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who stated that the company has recently invested way more into story-driven games than it ever did, writes GameRant. Spencer further claims that the games are “risky but valuable.” (Photo : Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 10: Phil Spencer, vice president of Microsoft Game Studios at Microsoft Corp. speaks during Microsoft Xbox news conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo at the Galen Center on June 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Thousands are expected to attend the annual three-day convention to see…
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US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to name Rahul Gupta as the country’s top drug policy official, adding another Indian American to a senior position in his administration.Gupta, a primary-care doctor who served as top health official of West Virginia state, is slated to be named director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a position that’s called the “drug czar”, a term coined by President Biden, who, as a senator, had also supported the creation of the office.The office was created in 1982 to frame and coordinate national policy on combating substance-use disorders, including the response to…
The United States sent a small number of additional security personnel to protect its embassy in Haiti soon after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, US officials told news agency Reuters. The officials also told Reuters that it was not immediately clear whether the personnel have left Haiti.Haitian authorities have said that a hit squad of 28 men, including 26 Colombians and two US citizens, killed Jovenel Moise in his home last week. His wife was also injured in the attack.On Monday, the US said it was helping investigate Jovenel Moise’s assassination and did not rule out sending troops at…
The death toll from a fire at a hospital coronavirus ward climbed to 92 on Tuesday as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country’s second such disaster in less than three months.Health officials said scores of others were injured in the blaze that erupted Monday at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah.The tragedy cast a spotlight on what many have decried as widespread negligence and mismanagement in Iraq’s hospitals after decades of war and sanctions.Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi convened an emergency meeting and ordered the suspension and arrest of the health director in…
(Photo : GettlyImages/ SOPA Images ) Firefox 90 update Firefox 90 announced the new version of its SmartBlock feature. SmartBlock is Firefox’s own tracker blocking mechanism that is built into its strict mode for private browsing. The SmartBlock now has improvements designed to help improve the performance of buttons used to log in to websites via Facebook accounts, as there have been reports of Facebook login buttons breaking in the past. Firefox 90 SmartBlock Update SmartBlock was launched together with Firefox 87 in March. The feature fixes up web pages that are broken by the browser’s tracking protection without compromising the…
Microsoft Teams’ Windows 11 version could soon have a new exciting feature that would change how people use their computers. (Photo : Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)In this photo illustration, the Microsoft Teams app seen displayed on a smartphone screen and a Microsoft Teams logo on a laptop in the background. This new functionality is called the Music Mode, specifically designed by the tech giant manufacturer to enhance audio quality and accuracy. As of the moment, Microsoft PC software still can’t provide great sound quality. Aside from this, Microsoft also confirmed that its video platform will…
A centralized repository of COVID-19 health records built last year is beginning to show results, starting with a new paper published today. The repository is the largest set of COVID-19 records to date, and was built by a team of researchers and data experts last year to help make sense of COVID-19. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, looked at risk factors for severe cases of COVID-19 and traced the progression of the disease over time. The authors built machine learning models to predict which hospitalized patients would develop severe disease based on information collected on their…
Facial recognition tech linked to personal health codes has been rolled out in a Chinese city bordering Myanmar as authorities seek to squash a coronavirus outbreak.China is one of the world’s most surveilled countries, with the government rushing to install more than 200 million CCTV cameras to “cover all public spaces” in the past five years.Surveillance has been widely used to combat Covid-19 in China, which was the first country to adopt a QR code system to log test results and track contacts.But this is the first publicly reported instance of facial recognition being used to track a person’s movements…
The Taliban do not want to battle government forces inside Afghanistan’s cities and would rather see them surrender, a senior insurgent leader said Tuesday, as the militants also warned Turkey against extending its troop presence.The hardline Islamist group has swept through much of the north as foreign troops complete their withdrawal, and the government now holds little more than a constellation of provincial capitals that must largely be resupplied by air.On Tuesday, the head of a Taliban commission that oversees government forces who surrender urged residents of Afghanistan’s cities to reach out to them.”Now that the fighting from mountains and…
Nepal Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday took oath as prime minister for the fifth time hours after he refused swear in seeking a correction in his appointment letter that did not mention the constitutional clause under which he was appointed, multiple news agencies reportedThe scheduled ceremony was 6 pm local time (17:45 IST), but was delayed after Deuba refused to take oath as the new prime minister as he reportedly sought correction in his appointment letter that did not mention the constitutional clause under which he was appointed.Deuba was appointed by President Bidya Devi Bhandari in accordance with…