Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser

Microsoft’s new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The “game-aware” overlay lives in the Microsoft Game Bar and is designed to automatically find and…

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MSNBC contributor trashes network, shreds ‘Morning Joe’ colleagues over Trump meeting: ‘This is not working’

MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin went on an unprecedented tear against her own network as well as her “Morning Joe” colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on her podcast, defiantly criticizing her employer’s business model and ratcheting up her attacks towards the duo for revealing their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.  On Friday’s installment of “Jen…

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The iMac M4 wasn’t built for this world

Still beautiful. Still good. Still the wrong form factor for basically everybody. The M4 iMac is a beautiful computer that feels more and more like it fell out of a universe where laptops never took off. You can see it, can’t you? In a world without laptops, the iMac would be the ultimate computer. Instead…

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School district defends decision to ban parents who wore ‘XX’ wristbands at daughters’ game with trans athlete

Roughly two months after barring parents who wore “XX” wristbands during a high school soccer game against a transgender athlete, a school district is confident in its decision to do so. Anthony Foote of Bow, New Hampshire, told the New Hampshire Journal he had received a notice of trespass from Bow and Dunbarton School Districts Superintendent…

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What’s on your desk, Kylie Robison?

A cozy workspace full of character and characters — and a cat. Kylie Robison is The Verge’s senior reporter covering artificial intelligence. Previously, she worked at Fortune, where she covered Twitter; before that, she covered software developer culture (“a beat,” she says, “I made up and loved”) for Business Insider. “I’ve always been obsessed with…

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Bill Maher vows he won’t ‘pre-hate’ incoming Trump administration: ‘Let’s see what the disruptors can do’

“Real Time” host Bill Maher vowed that he wouldn’t “pre-hate” the incoming Trump administration despite his own personal animosity towards President-elect Donald Trump.  “They are calling themselves the ‘disruptors,’” Maher began during a panel discussion Friday night. “The country does need disrupting. I mean, the country needs a colonic and a slap in the face…

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