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The Verge Tech

Xbox previews two new ways to control cloud games

I revealed yesterday that the new Xbox Nano controller supports a Wi-Fi connection directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now Microsoft is making it official today. Two new Xbox previews will let players try out using a phone as a controller on smart TVs, as well as cloud connect on the Xbox Nano to connect directly to cloud servers. "Instead of a Bluetooth connection to your TV, cloud connect uses your Wi-Fi to connect directly to the cloud server running your game," says the Xbox team. "That can h

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The Verge Tech

Google’s Pixel 11 phones are up to 27 percent off

You can save a heck of lot of money on Google’s Pixel 11 phones through November 8th, whether you want the best-for-the-least Pixel 11, or the slightly pricier Pixel 11 Pro that takes better photos. Even the big Pixel 11 Pro XL with a longer-lasting battery is hundreds off its original price. The Pixel 11 Pro deal is the most attractive of the bunch, as the $1,099.99 phone with 256GB storage and 12GB of RAM is down to just $799.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and at the Google Store, beating its October

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DZone

Your Event Storming Is Not Your Software Design

The Policy That Started the Argument We were looking at a purple policy between ListingSold and StopListingFee. Read aloud, the flow expressed a simple business expectation: when a listing is sold, the applicable recurring listing fee should stop. The interesting question was where that policy belonged. If Billing owns it, Billing receives the fact that a listing was sold and determines what that means for its fee model. Listing reports the sale without naming the operation Billing should perfor

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Vercel Blog

Workflow SDK adds idempotent starts

The 's function can now admit a run and claim a hook in one atomic step. Duplicate workflow starts fail safely. The atomic start replaces the previous -then- pattern, whose gap between the lookup and the start left a documented duplicate-start race.Workflow SDKstart()getHookByToken()start() The claimed Hook exists from the moment the run is admitted, so works even before the run begins executing, and early payloads are buffered and delivered in order. Inside the workflow, with the same token

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Use decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

Some agent-evaluation questions are narrow and repeatable, and decision models answer exactly that kind of question. This post shows how to connect two decision models, Jev and Strands Decider, to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations through code-based evaluators, and how to validate a decision-model check before you gate a release on it.

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support

As artificial intelligence and accelerated computing continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, the latest NVIDIA CUDA release arrives to unlock... As artificial intelligence and accelerated computing continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible, the latest NVIDIA CUDA release arrives to unlock unprecedented performance and scale. NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 delivers general availability (GA) across major new platforms. NVIDIA Vera Rubin support moves from early developer access to general a

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