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Alpinestars car pack and new expansion coming to best-selling Forza Horizon 3

2016-11-02 KENNETH 0

Alpinestars car pack and new expansion coming to best-selling Forza Horizon 3 Calling all fans of racing, cars and everything in between – your Australian adventure is about to get a whole lot cooler! As shared on Xbox Wire, Forza franchise developer Turn 10 Studios is proud to announce that Forza Horizon 3 is this year’s best-selling, highest rated racing game which further strengthens Forza as the most successful racing franchise on any platform this generation. Thanks to the biggest Forza launch to date, more than five million fans played Forza games in September on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. Arriving today is the Alpinestars Car Pack, which brings seven new cars to Forza Horizon 3. Arriving today is the Alpinestars Car Pack, which brings seven new cars to Forza Horizon 3. Leading off the pack are a pair [ more… ]

Minecraft: Education Edition available now!

2016-11-01 KENNETH 0

Minecraft: Education Edition available now! Today, we are excited to announce that the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition is now available for purchase in 11 languages and 50 countries around the world. The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition includes the Classroom Mode companion app, enabling educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items and teleport students in the Minecraft world. Classroom Mode offers educators the ability to interact with students and manage settings from a central user interface. We’re also continuing to update Minecraft: Education Edition to include new game features from other editions of Minecraft. In the official version, available now, all the latest updates to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta will be included. Those new to using Minecraft in the classroom should also check out education.minecraft.net, which includes tutorials, lesson plans, starter worlds, a [ more… ]

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Alcatel announces the virtual reality enabled IDOL 4S phone with Windows 10

2016-11-01 KENNETH 0

Alcatel announces the virtual reality enabled IDOL 4S phone with Windows 10 Today, Alcatel announced the IDOL 4S with Windows 10 smartphone, featuring powerhouse flagship mobile specs, an in-box VR experience and innovative Windows 10 capabilities including Continuum*, Cortana** and Windows Hello***. The IDOL 4S will be available at T-Mobile stores starting next week. The flexible IDOL 4S with Windows 10 is built for professionals, gamers and general tech enthusiasts alike. It comes with a premium dual-glass and metal-framed design and all the productivity features you need, such as Continuum, which puts PC-like productivity right in your pocket. With Continuum, you can connect your IDOL 4S with Windows 10 to a second screen, keyboard and mouse for a seamless desktop experience. A fingerprint reader below the camera allows you to login easily and more securely with Windows Hello. Each IDOL [ more… ]

How Expedia Uses NGINX for Cloud Migration at Scale

2016-11-01 KENNETH 0

How Expedia Uses NGINX for Cloud Migration at Scale td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a presentation delivered at nginx.conf 2016 by Dave Drinkle of Expedia, Inc. You can view a recording of the presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents 1:19 Three Pillars of Cloud Migration 3:00 Traffic Through NGINX Before Cloud Migration 3:23 Traffic Through NGINX After Cloud Migration 3:43 Basic Configuration 4:58 Multi-Region Resiliency 5:45 Multi-Region Resiliency In Pictures 6:20 Auto-Failover 6:50 Routing to Your App 10:32 Removing the Knife Edge 11:51 Setting Up the Cookie 13:00 Split_Clients Config 15:10 Modified Split_Clients Config 16:28 Traffic Routing with Split_Client Values 18:07 Reacting to Application Errors 18:54 Reacting to Hard Errors 20:54 Reacting to Soft Errors 24:11 Soft Errors – A Better Approach 27:00 Summary of Lessons from Expedia’s Cloud Migration Dave Drinkle: My name’s Dave Drinkle. I’m a Senior Software [ more… ]

The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 1 – Introduction and Remote Wiring

2016-11-01 KENNETH 0

The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 1 – Introduction and Remote Wiring Overview I am a child of the 80s. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie I saw by myself in the movie theater. The original Star Wars trilogy was an obsession. And WarGames is one thing that inspired me more than anything else to become a programmer. But it was movies like The Goonies that I would watch over and over again because they spoke to me in a language that reflected what it was like to be a kid at that time. They took kids on a grand adventure, while still allowing them to be kids in a way that so few movies can pull off. So, of course when a friend pointed out the Netflix series Stranger Things, I dove right in, and [ more… ]