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Season One: Festival of Ages is now live in Age of Empires IV The first major update of Age of Empires IV for 2022 is now available. Festival of Ages brings Ranked Seasons, the Content Editor beta (and Mods), Seasonal Events, Major Balance changes, as well as lots of quality-of-life changes. Head over to AgeOfEmpires.com to watch the trailer and dig into the details of the update, which you can download and start enjoying the next time you launch the game. Source: Season One: Festival of Ages is now live in Age of Empires IV

Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge: Save even more resources with recent updates Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge are designed to improve the memory and CPU usage of the browser. To save system resources for better speed and responsiveness, Microsoft Edge will put tabs to sleep when you haven’t used them for a while, and then wake them as soon as they are clicked. Beginning in Microsoft Edge 100, we’ve updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep. With this change, 8% more tabs on average will sleep, saving you even more resources! On average, each sleeping tab saves 85% of memory and 99% CPU for Microsoft Edge. We’ve also added a way for you to view how much memory sleeping tabs is saving you by visiting Performance under [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22593 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22593 to the Dev and Beta Channels. TL;DR We’ve received a lot of feedback from Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel about the desktop watermark. It is normal to see this watermark on your desktop after updating to the latest pre-release builds. It does not change the licensing of your device. But please note that these are pre-release builds that do expire so it’s important for you to stay up to date with the latest builds we’re releasing. This build includes only a handful of changes and improvements but includes a good set of fixes that will improve Insider’s overall experience on their device. We also added some new known issues so please read below as they may affect you. Changes [ more… ]

Here’s how Microsoft’s device partners are investing in our planet Every year in the month of April, we celebrate Earth Day. Living in the Pacific Northwest, as the snow begins to melt and the landscape brightens, I reflect on what a privilege it is to live in such a beautiful place. The theme for this year’s global Earth Day is “Invest in Our Planet,” and I believe it represents such an important reminder for us all – to invest. So, when the time comes to celebrate the Earth and recognize the amazing progress Microsoft and our partners are making to reduce our carbon footprints, change business practices to be more environmentally responsible and create more sustainable products, I jump at the opportunity. I’m so proud of the commitments our Microsoft device partners are making with sustainability. The innovation our partners [ more… ]

Fresh DLC brings new adventure with Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog races into Minecraft in updated downloadable content that’s now available. “From the creative masterminds at Gamemode One and SEGA, this update brings back the Labyrinth Zone, a level from the 1991 game that taught me a) exploring ruins is awesome and b) don’t trust gargoyles,” writes Sophie Austin on Minecraft.net. “Armed with a new mission, you’ll have to dodge obstacles and navigate traps as you try and stop the Master Emerald from falling into nefarious hands! And if that’s not motivation enough for you, then should I mention the new character skins? That’s right, on top of the 24 existing skins, there’ll be five brand new ones!” Open up the Marketplace on your Minecrafting device to download the new content. Or visit Minecraft.net first to find out more. [ more… ]