In this week's look at the new entries on the Microsoft 365 roadmap website, the OneNote app for Apple's iPad gets Copilot, Teams gets improvements for shared files, and Forms gets Copilot assistance.
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The LG UlraGear 45-inch OLED ultrawide PC monitor has a resolution of 3,440 x 1,440 and a 240Hz refresh rate. It's hit a new low price of $1,199,99 at Amazon, which is $500 off its $1,699.99 MSRP.
Microsoft will hold a press event on Monday, May 20, followed by its Build 2024 developer conference on May 21-23. Here's how to watch these events and what we expect to see there.
The Amazon Fire TV Cube streaming set-top box is one of the best streaming video devices around. The price of the box has gone back down to its lowest level of $109.99 for a limited time.
Ubisoft has revealed the final PC hardware recommendations for its upcoming free-to-play shooter XDefiant. Also, preloads are available for both the console and PC versions ahead of its May 21 launch.
Members of the Amazon Prime service can get the Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni QLED television for a special all-time low price of just $399.99 by typing in a promo code during checkout.
The Microsoft Forms website and app have added a new feature. Users can now put in pre-filled links for responses to questions in order to save some time when making forms for certain situations.
Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build for members of the Insider program in the Dev channel. The 26120.670 build includes some unnamed general improvements and some bug fixes.
Developer Arkane Austin will release one final update for its vampire shooter Redfall. The update will add a much-wanted offline mode to the game along with single-player pausing and more.
Members of the Microsoft 365 Insiders program can now try out a new version of Word for Apple's iPad. The new version supports a way to add a border to a page to make its look better.
The Microsoft Rewards service is adding some new features and services. Two of them, Streak Restore and Streak Protection, are designed to help people keep their points streak alive.
Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 builds 22621.3668 and 22631.3668 for the members of the Insiders program in the Release Preview channel. They include a number of new features.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has decided to launch Activision's 2024 Call of Duty game as a Day One title for the Xbox Game Pass subscription service for an October launch.
Hisense is selling a 100-inch Class U7 Series 4K TV with the Google TV operating system for 50 percent off at Amazon. It has hit a new all-time low price of $2,499.99, compared to its $4,999.99 MSRP.
The European Union announced today that Microsoft has not sent over requested information on some of its generative AI tools, and has given the company until May 27 to do so, or risk being fined.
The Creative Assembly development team is reportedly working on three more entries for its long-running Total War RTS game series. One of those games is allegedly based on the Star Wars universe
Leaks on social media have reportedly shown a new third-person shooter called Deadlock. This is rumored to be the next major new game from Valve, and it may be officially announced soon.
The Summer Game Fest X account has announced that the live-streaming event will officially reveal a new title from 2K Games that's part of one of its "biggest and most beloved franchises" on June 7.
As part of its quarterly financial report, publisher Take-Two Interactive stated that Grand Theft Auto VI from Rockstar Games will launch in the fall of 2025 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Microsoft is rolling out another update for its Snipping Tool app for Windows 11 for its Insider Canary and Dev channel members. It adds a new visual search feature for the app via Bing.
The 34-inch Gigabyte G34WQC A ultrawide curved PC monitor has a 144Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 3,440 x 1,440. It's currently priced for its new all-time low price of $289.99.
Activision, now owned by Microsoft, has opened a new game development studio called Elsewhere. The team is working on an all-new "narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise."
Microsoft's plans to become carbon-negative by 2030 have taken a hit due to big increases in indirect emissions from building new data centers. They have gone up by over 30 percent since 2020.
Palworld, the surprise game hit of 2024, is now available on the Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for Steam owners of the game. Four other games were also added to GeForce Now this week.
The TP-Link RE315 Wi-Fi Extender can help with low-signal locations in your home network. It's now available for a new all-time rock-bottom price of just $19.99 with a $3 digital coupon at Amazon.
Today, Google announced a number of new additions for devices that use versions of Android. They include a new "private space" for smartphone apps in the upcoming Android 15 OS, and more.
Netflix has revealed that its cheapest ad-based subscription plan for its streaming service has seen its numbers go way up from 23 million in January 2024 to 40 million subscribers today.
Tomorrow is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Microsoft is using the occasion to officially reveal the Proteus Controller, a third-party modular Xbox game controller that's coming this fall.
Microsoft has announced that PowerPoint for the web, which you can access from a browser, will allow users to auto-generate captions for videos in slides using speech recognition in June.
Microsoft has released the latest version of Windows 11 for members of the Insider program in the Canary Channel. The new 26217 build is a minor update with unnamed general improvements and two fixes.
Intel has announced Thunderbolt Share, a new way to share files and monitors for select Windows PCs with Thunderbolt 4 and 5 ports. The new software is available now for select PCs.
Microsoft has announced that users of the new Outlook for Windows app and the web version can now embed and play Microsoft Stream videos in emails, along with OneDrive videos as well.
Microsoft's latest Xbox software update for May concentrates on the PC platform, as it officially adds support for playing certain Xbox Cloud Gaming titles with a mouse and keyboard.
Tango Gameworks will release one more and final patch for its acclaimed action game Hi-Fi Rush later today. The game's physical editions from Limited Run Games are also still in the works.
Microsoft has released its latest Xbox Transparency Report, which claims that the company has seen the online safety of its gamers improve with the use of new tools and reporting features.
LG currently has a 27-inch UltraGear PC monitor with a 240 Hz refresh rate that's great for gaming. You can get it now for its lowest price of $349.99, which is $150 off its $499.99 MSRP.
Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder, chief scientist, and one of the major forces behind OpenAI, is departing the company, just one day after the reveal of the new ChatGPT-4o AI LLM model.
Google has quietly revealed it is rolling out a new "Web" filter for search results that will show links to other sites in the old-fashioned way, rather than the new AI Overviews results.
Google has just announced its new Gemini API Developer Competition with a video featuring actor Christopher Lloyd and an interesting Back to the Future-related grand prize for the winner.
Microsoft has released the latest update for its Windows Holographic software platform. The new version 24H1 includes a way for people to share a Microsoft Entra ID account for one HoloLens 2 device.