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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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