đ Good morning! Another day of intriguing new concepts in gaming. Meanwhile, my house now does indeed own Untitled Goose Game, from Mondayâs newsletter.
Microsoft has announced its game-streaming service, Project xCloud, will go live in October, with a bunch of caveats.Â
Reminder: This is basically a play-your-Xbox-games anywhere streaming service, akin to Google Stadia, but based on Microsoftâs Xbox ecosystem.
But today Microsoft is testing the waters, and these are the details of whatâs happening:
By the way, Microsoft flips Apple off?:
đ Ongoing Samsung Galaxy Fold review: Day 1 â Initial impressions (Android Authority).
đ§ Samsung will charge a special one-time fee to fix Galaxy Fold screen. Itâs the second time you need to worry about (Android Authority).
đš Asus ROG Phone 2 review: Finally nailed the gaming phone (Android Authority)
đ Google Play Pass vs Apple Arcade: The battle of the curated app subscriptions (Android Authority).
đ Apple says a bug in iOS 13 may grant âfull accessâ to third-party keyboards by mistake (TechCrunch). A second major bug. iOS 13 isnât looking great (Twitter).
đ¤ Boston Dynamicsâ Spot is leaving the laboratory, and while the company has done an amazing job of making us think fondly of its curiously animal/human-like robots, these are coming to a workplace near you, if not a battlefield. Until the battery runs out, anyway (The Verge).
đĽ Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees (CNBC). With Amazon, it starts in-house, and then quickly rolls out to the public. Thatâs how AWS started. Watch this space.
đ˘ WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down (CNBC).
đ¨âđ§ Mario Kart Tour out now on iOS and Android. Free to play, in-app purchases, and hereâs everything you need to know (no offline play, no multiplayer yet, by the way, and thereâs a new and terrible $4.99 subscription model I just canât stand for unlocking 200cc karts) (Android Authority).
đ¤ âPeople who were born deaf but gained hearing later in life, what objects did you expect to make noise?â (r/askreddit).
(Image via Guinness World Records)
Here's something fun: From smashing tiles to driving sheds: the weird world of wacky record breakers (The Guardian).
This is a rather enjoyable short series of interviews and photos with weird world record holders from Vegas to Britain:
What would be your world record attempt? Iâd have to say mine, right now, would be something involving something the most cups of ginger tea in a single morning.
Yours giddy with nutrients,
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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