Wednesday - March 19th, 2025
The gaming library on Windows 10 PC’s just got a huge influx of more than 70 games with the release of EA Play for PC. Any Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Game Pass for PC subscriber has immediate access to this library of games which includes popular franchises such as FIFA, Madden, Battlefield, and the Sims.
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Along with an updated logo, MSI has released a new series of business and productivity laptops that feature some of the latest hardware features and capabilities such as 11th Gen Intel CPUs, PCIe Generation 4 SSDs, Thunderbolt 4 & USB 4 ports, and iRIS Xe graphics. Yes, they also announced a new gaming laptop among all these work devices.
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Here at the very end of August in a quite different year than we all expected when it started, there is still plenty to discuss about faith, tech, and space. We kick this episode off with a discussion around returning to movie theaters to watch movies during this active pandemic plus an update an update about my recent PC Build and SSD drives. Next is the final couple of weeks in the summer break for my cohort’s continuing formation and classes beginning in just a couple of weeks. In tech, we layout new builds for Windows and Edge Insiders including a significant upcoming milestone. Surface Duo review are in the hands of reviewers and influencers but it is everyday folks without embargos that are going into Best Buy and AT&T stores to give full operational demos of the dual-screened devices ahead of schedule. IN other tech headlines there is more on the Epic vs Apple app store fight, talk about the Amazon Halo, TikTok, tech scam insider information to help awareness, and big changes in real estate in the pandemic. In space we have launches and scrubs and we wrap up reminiscing about the 25 year anniversary of Windows 95, Office, 95, and of course this website!
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There is nothing quite as exciting, and in some ways stressful, than building your own PC. From picking the parts, assembling everything together, dealing with the inevitable hiccups that occur, and applying power for the first time it is a unique experience. Join me for some insight into my recent PC Build including what parts I ended up using and the glitches I experienced and dealt with along the build process.
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Rolling with a weekly schedule we kick off about my incoming PC build and the parts I am using for this new setup, closing out my first year of formation with some new information on upcoming classes and purchasing my first vestments. For Windows and Edge Insiders we catch up on the latest builds, updates, and enhancements coming to the web and OS platforms for testing. I touch on the tit-for-tat between Microsoft and Apple about iOS App Store policies that are preventing Project xCloud from being carried for iOS devices, the latest on TikTok acquisition discussions, a Windows division reorg under Panos Panay, and the latest in open source and security. Finally, we talk space including the return of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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