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Xbox gets closer to Netflix for gaming with xCloud joining Game Pass, and more

August 20, 2025

1. Xbox Game Pass + xCloud = Netflix for gaming?

Microsoft has announced that its game streaming service is going public:Project xCloud will officially launch in September 2020.

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Also:Microsoft discontinues Xbox One X, Xbox One S digital editionahead of Series X launch, but the Xbox One S will continue to be manufactured for now (The Verge).

  1. The Best of Android: Mid-2020 —Which phone has the best camera?(Android Authority). Great insight here in a really tight finish at the top. Dare I say, photo finish?

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  1. Here is theLenovo Legion gaming phonein all its glory (Android Authority).

4.Sprint officially turns into T-Mobileon August 2 (Android Authority).

  1. Twitter says130 accounts were targetedas it released initial investigation findings (Twitter). The FBI has moved fromaware of the situation to investigating(Reuters), while gun cybersecurity reporterKrebs On Security is on the chase, too, finding links to the guy who reset @jack’s account in 2019.

  2. The US Army has a Twitch channel that it uses to fish for potential recruits with prizes and giveaways and the like. The problem isthe giveaways are fake, and it all blew up last night (Kotaku).

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  1. Streaming oddities:Peacock is already losing moviesa day after its full debut (Engadget).

  2. A snapshot of 6,000 of the world’s public code repos on GitHubhave been stored in the Arctic World Archive, forever, down below hundreds of meters of permafrost (GitHub).

  3. You can watch Henry Cavill build a gaming PC.You probably might really like watching Henry Cavill’s arms build a computer, just saying (The Verge).

  4. New details and images emerge of SpaceX’s Starlink user antennas and planned beta testing (The Verge).

11.Ultra-Black Vantafish beat Vantablack: Scientists have found that some deep-sea fishes absorb up to 99.956 percent of the light that hits them. That’s weird. (Wired).

  1. This is very cool:Trending Google searches by US State between 2018 and 2020(r/dataisbeautiful). Amazing to see how fast trends take off and disappear, or hang around.

  2. “What is something free from the internet everyone should take advantage of?” (r/askreddit).

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