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Microsoft didn’t detail much further about the Xbox One’s internet connection requirement, however, according to sources from Polygon, the console will only require a regular ‘spot check’ to verify the game if it’s authentic or not. Microsoft will also give an exemption code to people who buy the console and on internet-free areas or situations, such as the active-duty soldiers serving in war areas. The spot checks currently do not have a time in between.

Sources of Polygon also says that used games will not have an extra fee to be paid by the second buyer – once you’ve put the disc in the console and installed it, you’ll now have the ownership of the license in the game. If the first owner has installed the game on his console, the game would be unplayable, and the first owner would be required to purchase another license, the same way as buying and downloading a game, but without downloading.

Source: Polygon

Source: Geek

Microsoft today has announced that the company will release a version of Kinect armed for Windows machines. That was confirmed from a post on the respective Kinect for Windows blog, which means, the Kinect for Xbox One originally will be separate from the one for Windows. Microsoft says this will ‘revolutionize computing experiences,’ as the Kinect has a higher fidelity, expanded field of view, improved skeletal tracking, and a new active infrared or IR.

Source: Microsoft

After Twitter has added a two-step authentication security for users (found at the settings page), Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, claims that Google, Twitter, Facebook, and other companies have been infringing his property, which he points to his patent dated back to 1997.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Citibank, etc. offer Two-Step-Authentication.Massive IP infringement by U.S. companies. My innovation. My patent
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 22, 2013

Dotcom says that he ’never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge and ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me,’ he also threats. Followed by that, Dotcom also asks for help from the named companies for financial support in his defense, in exchange, he’ll allow those companies to use his patent for free.

Source: Twitter; Google Patents

The team has also added some tweaks to it: the native GTK theme is now respected, Chromium has been updated to version 25, non-free codecs for playing HTML5 audio and video playbacks are now installed by default, and they also promise the whole environment to be more stable.

Users who already have the environment installed may simply upgrade from the Update Manager or run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and for people who do not currently have it may install it by running: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jolicloud-team/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install jolicloud-desktop-environment

Source: Jolicloud on Google+

Microsoft has recently been posting entertaining Vine clips for Internet Explorer, and after a set of posts, their latest one currently hints for WebGL support. The new clip asks ‘what’s next? WebGL?’ We already know that Internet Explorer 11, which shipped in the leaked builds of Windows 8.1, already supports WebGL, however, that’s only partial.

Fully supporting WebGL will finally make Internet Explorer support web apps such as Mozilla’s WebGL-powered Epic Citadel and also the Earth view from the latest Google Maps. Opera, Chrome, Safari, and the Nightly builds of Firefox already support WebGL and adding Internet Explorer would make it a great addition.

Source: Internet Explorer on Vine

Steve Wilhite, who invented GIFs or Graphic Interchange Format accepted his lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards, and he proves a lot of people wrong: upon receiving Wilhite’s award, he made and showed a GIF instead, which states “it’s pronounced ‘JIF’, not ‘GIF’.” With a simple GIF, users on the web (especially Redditors) may now laugh at people who push that it’s ‘GIF’.

Source: Webby Awards (YouTube)

Google today has pushed some updates to the basic HTML mobile site of Google+, which finally uses the Google Now-like cards design found on the desktop version. Posts are now in cards, photos and videos now have a full-width, however, the top bar is still the same. Additional to those, profiles and pages now have a cover photo and the about cards found on the desktop version (Story, Work, etc.) are now also present. Still, many desktop features and excluded, such as switching to pages, photo editing, and Hangouts support.

Source: Google+

As announced earlier today, Microsoft has revealed this morning the next-generation console. Apparently, all those rumors are incorrect, as it’s not the Xbox 720, nor the Xbox Infinity, and not even close to Nextbox. The people at Redmond today announced it as the Xbox One, and here’s everything you need to know about it.

Upon reaching out to the support team about my storage, Copy’s technical support team says that they’ve hit a massive traffic spike from their referral system – and this may have been caused by their announcement of ‘fair storage for all’. The fair storage announcement ups all users to 15GB of maximum storage, and many users have started referral threads inviting users to use Copy. The referral system would up both users to 5GB, and at the end of the chain, if the user tweets about Copy, they’d get 2GB more – which totals up to a free 22GB storage.

However, they’ve reached some issues with their servers because of this, and the issue would make files not to sync or simply disappear (don’t worry, as they’re still there). Users who registered and received an error will still be able to login, and users who didn’t get 5GB of storage are encouraged to email the support team. If you’re affected of the ‘files disappearing’ issue, simply wait and calm down.