Even as pandemic restrictions loosen, social media companies Twitter and Snap continue to attract users.

We hear a lot about 5G technology, but its impact on our lives is limited to our smartphones and mobile service providers for many of us. However, thinking that 5G technology is solely beneficial because it allows us to read books before bed is equivalent to stating that electricity is excellent because it will enable us to read books before bed. Sure, both are positive outcomes, but the consequences of each invention are far more extensive.

15 JULY (Reuters) - Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab claimed that an Israeli group offered a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, revealing light on the expanding business of identifying and selling methods to breach widely used software.

According to an IDG poll, cloud use has exploded in the last ten years, with 92 percent of commercial business strategies now relying on it. The manufacturing sector, in particular, has a nearly identical rate of 87 percent. However, most cloud computing use cases are centered on information technology; according to the report, storage and backup, customer relationship management or enterprise resource planning systems, and disaster recovery are the top apps and services being shifted to the cloud.

Microsoft Corp, became the second US public corporation to attain a market worth of $2 trillion, bolstered by predictions that its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software could expand further in a post-coronavirus future.

Presenting Windows 11 as "the best Windows ever for gaming," Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond appeared on Microsoft's Livestream to announce that Xbox Game Pass will be "built right into Windows 11." Microsoft has been testing this functionality for many months with a redesigned Xbox app for Windows 10, but clips of the Windows 11 version that Bond showed seemed to indicate a deeper integration.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) now refers to a clever but limited set of software technologies. However, if artificial intelligence gets more complicated and pervasive in the future, we may be compelled to reconsider the rights and wrongs of how we treat AIs – and even how they treat us.

Microsoft executives announced earlier this month that Xbox Cloud Gaming would be upgraded to more powerful Xbox Series X hardware, and it now appears that some games have received the boost. According to The Verge, titles like Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Rainbow Six Siege directly provide 120 frames per second and enhanced graphics, while others like Dirt 5 load faster. Microsoft isn't ready to disclose the move just yet, but it has told the outlet that datacenter enhancements will be announced soon.

JEDI is not mentioned in a new Department of Defense policy document outlining the military's computing needs outside of the continental United States.