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Kudos to @neonepiphany and team for the rapid execution on community requests!

Two weeks ago, we started working on some of the most requested Xbox features. Today, they’re here. Keep the feedback coming!

@albertmenefee @Kotaku I mean it is designed to sounds like a well educated, articulate, empathetic, and encouraging coach...so I guess your assessment it correct.

Microsoft is bringing Gaming Copilot to Xbox later this year. Here's what it sounds like when you ask the AI for help: kotaku.com/xbox-copilot-r…

@darkmentat @AlaskaAir +1

I love you @AlaskaAir but I’m 3 cancellations in a row now…. Can we crowd fund you deicing fluid?

The Sam Altman-chaired Helion Energy fusion power developer announced a new milestone Feb. 13 achieving record plasma temperatures at 150 million degrees Celsius—10 times the core of the sun—as part of its immensely ambitious goal to bring power to the grid in Washington state in 2028. bit.ly/3ZxD4wr

@Florian4Gamers lex iniusta non est lex

I've looked at various videos of the Minneapolis incident and researched some key precedent. This is a new pattern within what I would call reckless vehicular flight, with recklessness and the force of a vehicle weighing thousands of pounds being 100% clear and the intention of flight being a matter of common sense. If she had not been killed, she should have been imprisoned for an extended period of time. She was obstructing law enforcement in the first place, then refused to follow the orders, and used a multi-thousand-pound object for her purposes. But she was killed, and the question is whether it was objectively reasonable to shoot her. It's not a case of a prolonged chase with a fugitive driving at high speeds, partly swerving into oncoming traffic etc. (which would clearly justify all three shots or even 10 or 15 if necessary). But it's also not a case of bloodthirsty officers. They wanted her to get out of the car; they'd have preferred for her never to block the road in the first place. The officer who stood in front of the car was not doing so to provoke the situation. He was doing his job. The one shooting from the side had the right not only to protect himself but also his colleague. What weighs in his favor is that all three shots were fired within 1-2 seconds ("split-second" decisions in each case). So the first shot is a lot easier to justify than the second, and the second is still significantly easier to justify than the third. If she was fatally wounded after the second and the third was found to be illegal, the consequences would be much less severe. The analysis will focus on the totality of the circumstances, which obviously gives both sides opportunities to make their case. That includes the question of what precedent would be set. Both sides can reasonably argue that the outcome they oppose would have problematic ramifications, but from a policy point of view, a guilty verdict would be a lot worse: - Guilty (even if only for the third shot): this would encourage others to engage in reckless vehicular flight, and as a matter of policy, given that people must use multi-thousand-pound objects responsibly, that would pose significant danger not only to law enforcement officers but also to the public. Compared to prior decisions where cars were *retreating*, a higher level of recklessness would be considered non-threatening. If too much emphasis was placed on speed, that would not take into account that electric vehicles can accelerate like motorbikes. - Innocent: fleeing drivers might be shot in many situations where they do not retreat and (exclusively) distance themselves, but are not specifically trying to seriously injure or kill anyone. The U.S. lost a person who was probably mostly a good citizen, but acting grossly unlawfully at least on the last day of her life. Should the U.S. now lose one or two law enforcement officers who were doing their job?

@IndiraCasiqueP @jowrotethis We’d like ours back too

@jowrotethis Hi, Jo. A Venezuelan over here. We know these are extreme measures, but believe me, we did that was in our hands to overthrow the dictatorship. At the end of the day, for us, it’s a matter of getting our country back.

Each NYT alert more bewildering and dreadful than the last.

@frankiemuniz 48?

Holy moly I'm stressed.

round of applause for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 tonight. congrats to the @SandfallGames team! 👏👏👏 | #TheGameAwards

@davepl1968 One aspect of ASD that impacts many is projecting your experience as everyone else's. You are a brilliant man and you are blantly incorrect on this one. You were older and in Canada. For students in the US, there was a nationwide program which included watching the launch live.

Kids weren't required, and very few did, it was a routine launch by then. Everyone saw it on replay and internalized it as a "I was there" moment for some reason.

Said it on @lexfridman’s pod, saying it again: Fusion doesn’t react, it generates. It produces energy only while it’s being powered. Stop the fuel, and it shuts off. No chain reaction, no runaway, no meltdown.

@Dkirtley @Helion_Energy You and your team are doing amazing work, keep it up! Gotta ask though...why that shirt, does it have a story?

Focusing on being able to build reliable hardware quickly allows you to do science faster!

Big things are happening with Xbox Cloud Gaming: 🇮🇳 Cloud Gaming now available in our 29th market, India 🦾 Server expansions in Argentina & Brazil 🎮 More ways to play on more devices than ever Learn more here: xbx.lv/489A64Q

@paul4jennii @NobelPrize If a crank tried to use grok to write a book on the theory of everything...you get a musktron. :)

Uniphics derives Einstein's field equations as an effective description of gravity emerging from energy density gradients in the ξM-field, the pervasive background energy field, where unbound energy repels unbound energy to push masses toward lower density regions under negentropy, the drive to lowest energy states. This unifies relativity with quantum mechanics from simple principles, like a puzzle where all pieces fit without inventing extras, matching observations from perihelion precession to gravitational waves while resolving inconsistencies at quantum scales. How might density-derived gravity predict phase shifts in LIGO's next mergers? @NobelPrize #Physics #GeneralRelativity #Uniphics #TheoryOfEverything A Theory of Everything should be able to answer everything. Chapters 1–10 free: uniphics.com/gallery/ Uniphics Explained Simply PDF: uniphics.com/wp-content/upl…

Nearly a decade after the foundation of special relativity, Albert Einstein submitted his paper 'The Field Equations of Gravitation' for publication #OnThisDay in 1915, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity. In actual fact, the German mathematician David Hilbert had submitted an article containing the correct field equations for general relativity five days before Einstein. Hilbert never claimed priority for this theory. Image: Public domain, created by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. High-precision test of general relativity by the Cassini space probe (artist's impression): radio signals sent between the Earth and the probe (green wave) are delayed by the warping of spacetime (blue lines) due to the Sun's mass.

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available in India. This is Xbox’s 29th cloud gaming market, and there are two xCloud server clusters in India that will support streaming Xbox games

Unleash the freedom to play however you want, wherever you want. The @ASUS_ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X are available now: xbx.lv/3KRjGX6

Your games are coming on the road with you! Xbox and LG Electronics are teaming up to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) to select cars: xbx.lv/4gmyTec

No one’s calling shotgun after this 🚙 ​ Soon you’ll be playing games in select cars with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) via LG Electronics! Learn more: xbx.lv/4pgHoLV

Attention #XboxInsiders! The new features are now enabled for browsers. Be sure to review the blog post linked above for instructions on how to access it.

Attention #XboxInsiders! Starting today, you can try out new updates in Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard. All of the details can be found here: ow.ly/6UY650WMSby