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Losing confidence in Xbox

Ever since the 360 days when my brother introduced me to Halo, I have been a fan Xbox. Not to the extent that I would bash other consoles however (whoever participates in console wars needs to have a long look in the mirror.) I bought the Series X on day one. I was lucky to get one from all accounts at the time and I was excited to see what "true next gen" games was going to bring. Even though I had a PC at the time, my PC hardware has never been cutting edge. Not that I only look…
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Adrian Newey leaving?

I haven't talked about it on this site yet, but I follow Formula 1. Although I am nowhere near what I would class a hardcore follower, I have followed for many years. I do not have a favourite team, but I have some drivers that I really like. Namely Valtteri Bottas (increasingly so lately!), Daniel Ricciardo, Fernando Alonso, and Carlos Sainz. I tend to lean more to the technical side of F1. Anyway, I digress. It's been well known for what seems like forever that Newey is the best car designer in F1. Admittedly I mostly know him from Red…
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To AI or not to AI

I was looking to design an icon for this site last night and thought I would try out Microsoft Co-Pilot to see what it could produce for fun. It ended up producing the logo you should see in your browser. To be honest I wasn't expecting anything good but there it is. I did have to drop it into Microsoft Designer to refine the cropping and transparency a little, however. I know there is a discussion going on regarding AI generation and how it is being trained on others work. I can see two arguments for this: For Generative AI…
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