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Microsoft introduced Project xCloud. It’s a cloud streaming service that will allow you to play from smartphones and other mobile devices, games developed for Xbox One. Public Microsoft Project xCloud testing will begin in 2019. Currently, Microsoft is testing the service on smartphones and tablets with connected controllers Xbox Wireless Controller via the wireless interface…

In September, cryptocurrency in the world was born a new coin — ANON. It was a fork of Bitcoin and Zclassic and promises users an unprecedented level of privacy. But another surprise: at first, masternode ANON showed an 1800% ROI. It turns out that the deposited amount had doubled already for 20 days — and…

The satellite of the gas giant Jupiter Europe is of great scientific interest. Under the icy crust of the moon is a vast ocean in which water can be even more than any earthly. Water availability is one of the indicators of the possible presence of life. Scientists have been looking to Europe and thinking…

Image: fancycrave1 (Pixabay) As anyone who has spent any amount of time on Twitter can tell you, the internet can bring out the worst in us. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that scientists in Europe are now hoping to catalogue exactly how the online hellscape affects mental health and well-being. On Monday, a…

Photo: Getty As hundreds of millions of people flood social networks, tech companies are struggling to weed out harassment on their platforms—and so they’re turning to machines for help. On Tuesday, Instagram announced it was doing just that. “While the majority of photos shared on Instagram are positive and bring people joy, occasionally a photo…

Photo: Raul Marrero (Gizmodo) Surprise, surprise. We got a pair of new Pixels, as expected. Google’s notchless Pixel 3 boasts a 5.5-inch display and will set you back $800 (a premium over last year’s Pixel 2). The larger, notchy Pixel 3 XL comes with a 6.3-inch display and starts at $900—still $100 less than Apple’s…

Graphite, aka “graphene” to some shoddy graphene producersPhoto: James St. John (Flickr) You might wonder why, given all the hype, there isn’t graphene in every product you own yet. Well, a new study has found that 60 companies that sell the Nobel prize-winning ultra-thin carbon sheets produce utter trash. Graphene was supposed to have revolutionary…

Photo: Raul Marrero (Gizmodo) Google’s Pixel 2 was a good smartphone with a great camera. For the Pixel 3, the company’s bringing us a bunch of new software solutions to make the photos look even better. Google’s been incessantly talking about AI for the last year and its use of the term is a little…

Artist’s interpretation of Dynamoterror dynastesIllustration: Brian Engh They don’t look remarkable to the untrained eye. The skull bones are fragmentary, unrecognizable to most. The story of a fearsome tyrannosaur, who lived millions of years before T. rex, would remain lost to the ages had it not been for the fossil’s discovery in New Mexico by…

Photo: Getty Two-factor authentication is a simple and crucial step toward preventing someone from hacking into your account, and Instagram just updated this key security feature for all users. While Instagram rolled out two-factor authentication to all users last year, it announced in September that it would be bolstering the layer of security, adding a…