Microsoft has announced it will follow Epic’s lead and reduce the cut it takes on game sales from 30 percent to 12 percent. It’s a shift intended to boost interest in the Windows Store as a Steam alternative and to put pressure on Valve to reduce its own 30 percent cut. Microsoft : As part of our commitment to empower every PC game creator to achieve more, starting on August 1 the developer share of Microsoft Store PC games sales net revenue will increase to 88%, from 70%. A clear, no-strings-attached revenue share means developers can bring more games to more players and find greater commercial success from doing so.
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NASA’s long-delayed Space Launch System (SLS) is finally beginning to take shape. Following a number of impressive engine tests, the various components of the first full spacecraft have all arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, including the newly arrived core stage. That part of the mega-rocked . The Space Launch System was envisioned as a replacement for the aging Space Shuttle, and one that could help humanity move beyond low-Earth orbit once again. Since the end of the Apollo program, we’ve been limited to hovering over our little blue marble, but the SLS has enough power to send crewed spacecraft back to the moon.
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 with an expected design life of 15 years, but it’s well past that now. The iconic telescope just celebrated its 31st birthday, and . The photo above shows a star known as AG Carinae, which is one of the brightest in the entire galaxy. Hubble may be getting on in years, but it still impresses. AG Carinae is about 20,000 light-years away, so it’s difficult to see with the naked eye despite its high luminance. The visible extent of the nebula is about five light-years across in this image, which was captured in both visible and ultraviolet spectrums.
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Apple’s M2, the successor to the M1 and the SoC variant expected to ship in higher-end systems, is said to have now taped out on TSMC’s N5P process. N5P is said to be a small improvement over TSMC’s N5 node, offering an additional 10 percent improvement to power consumption and a 5 percent performance improvement over N5. This news comes from , but we have to note an error in the story that’s been introduced by either the authors or Google Translate, since the said error is being propagated online. The Asia Nikkei story (or at least the GT version) claims that TSMC is manufacturing “chipsets” for Apple.
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