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Today's Meta Quest Gaming Showcase either revealed or offered some new info on over 20 upcoming VR games for the Meta Quest headsets, including some adaptations of some older PC games.

The Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Mac apps in the Microsoft 365 Insider program now have smart search suggestions, along with the ability to search for more than just text in documents.

The Windows 11 Paint Insider update also includes some more features to the app's zoom controls and the Image Properties dialogs have been updated to match the style of the new Windows 11 design

Two new Windows 11 Insider builds 22621.1830 and 22631.1830, have been released to the Beta channel under KB5026443. It adds WPA3 support to the Phone Link instant hotspot feature.

The release of Redfall from developer Arkane Austin, Bethesda Softworks, and Microsoft in May ended up as a major disappointment, and a new report seems to show a lot of issues at the developer.

The new upper limit on chat turns in the Bing Chat chatbot service was confirmed by Microsoft exec Jordi Ribas today, and this is the first expansion of this feature since mid-March.

The new free Windows Teams features are rolling out now to Windows 11, iOS, and Android users. They also include new camera features for the mobile versions, and adding Teams calls to GroupMe.

Midnight Ghost Hunt is a multiplayer 4v4 first-person shooter where one team are the ghosts and the other team are the ghost hunters. It's also the free PC game this week at the Epic Games Store.

The Meta Quest 3 will use a new Qualcomm Snapdragon chip that will give it "twice the graphical performance" compared to the current Meta Quest 2, which is getting a price cut on June 4.

The Samsung 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD is currently just $226.97 at Amazon which is over $270 lower than its MSRP. You can also save big on other Samsung internal SSDs.

All four Age of Empires games will soon be available to access on the NVIDIA GeForce Now cloud game streaming service, which will also add a number of other games throughout the month of June.

The Intel 8088 processor was launched on June 1, 1979, and a few years later IBM picked this CPU to be inside its first personal computer. 44 years later, the influence of the 8088 is still felt.

A cybersecurity firm has discovered that a large number of motherboards made by Gigabyte have a previously undisclosed firmware backdoor that could be used by hackers to install malicious software.

All 10 full episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds can be watched free right now on YouTube for a limited time before the second season begins on Paramount+ on June 15.

Early reviews of the ASUS ROG Ally Windows 11 portable gaming PC have not been kind when it comes to its battery life but ASUS claims it will make improvements before its June 13 launch date.

The latest Xbox app for Windows update also has some improvements in customizing its accessibility settings and a way to see your friends list, chat, and party windows even if you are in a game.

The RARBG site now only has a brief and rambling message stating the reasons why it has shut down, which include deaths of some team members due to COVID-19, higher inflation and more.

Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 will give app developers for HoloLens devices better performance while also having a smaller memory footprint, along with improvements in its user interface.

Lots of Corsair Vengeance RAM sticks for PCs are at their lowest prices ever on Amazon right now, including the 5600MHz DDR5 32GB Intel bundle that is only $92.99 with a digital coupon.

A new post on the official Xbox Twitter account is likely a hint that we may finally learn a lot more about the previously announced Fable reboot at the Xbox Games Showcase on June 11.

Microsoft's Michael Gillett has created new versions of the well known Windows XP and Windows 11 wallpapers using generative AI fill effects to show off more of the wallpaper's landscape

The new but unconfirmed report claims that Apple's mixed reality headset, which should officially be announced on June 5 at WWDC will have twin 1.41-inch OLED displays with very high brightness.

This ASUS prototype ditches the normal power cord that's used for most graphics cards in favor of using a slot built into the motherboard, which should help with reducing the number of PC cables.

The intelligent meeting recap feature in Microsoft Teams Premium will use AI to automatically create an overview of an online meeting so people who miss it will get all the info they need.

The tentative date for the official appeal hearing was set by the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal by the judge, the Honourable Mr. Justice Marcus Smith, during a case management conference today.

The next Bing Chat update from Microsoft will also have some more improvements for Bing Image Creator, and a "big internals refactoring" so it can launch support for third-party plugins

Devolver Direct is the annual online streaming event from indie game publisher Devolver Digital and this year it's featuring the "return" of its mascot Volvy in some kind of capacity.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission has approved Microsoft's plan to acquire Activision Blizzard with no conditions, due in part that the game publisher's titles are not very popular in the country.

The Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 internal SSD is currently priced at just $104.99 on Amazon, which is $85 off its normal MSRP. Lots of other Crucial internal SSDs are at or near their lowest prices.

The newest NVIDIA GeForce WHQL driver update, 535.98, is optimized for the launch of Diablo IV later this week. It also supports the System Shock remake that's launching on PC today.

This online stress test for the upcoming fighting game is separate from the August beta test for Mortal Kombat 1, and will be designed to put the game's online infrastructure through its paces.

The MSI graphics card cooling concepts include using a thermoelectric cooler on the card's GPU and memory, and also FushionChill, where every part is liquid cooled in the graphics card shroud.

The newly revealed ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card uses a liquid metal thermal compound on the GPU to help cool the chip. The card and GPU are also housed inside an all-metal frame.

The MSI Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport A13V gaming laptop will have some serious hardware inside which the company claims will offer gamers the "ultimate luxury gaming experience."

The Corsair Dominator Titanium RAM products will have speeds of up to 8,000MT/s and will be sold in capacities up to 192GB (4x 48GB). Pricing for the new RAM modules has not yet been revealed.

Once you run the Street Fighter 6 benchmark tool from Capcom, your PC will be given a score that might show how your gaming PC will perform while running the upcoming fighting game.

The NVIDIA G-Sync Ultra Low Motion Blur 2 technology offers over 1000 Hz of clarity to cut down on motion blur, but you will need a recent G-Sync monitor and a firmware update to use it.

The NVIDIA MGX server platform will be used by companies like ASRock Rack, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Pegatron, QCT and Supermicro to create and build servers in much less time compared to normal server designs.