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Microsoft is continuing its quest to make Xbox Game Pass a first-class contender for gaming. The company has now introduced support for dual-screen gaming on devices like the Surface Duo. Here’s how the feature works: Fire up Game Pass on a device such as the dual-screened Surface Duo, and your game controls will be mapped to the bottom screen, with the top reserved for displaying your actual game. Developers can tailor the way controls are displayed on the lower panel, allowing different games to offer different buttons or control layouts. Games can also support the Surface Duo’s built-in gyro, Windows Central , allowing your view in-game to rotate when you move the device.
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Nvidia has been trying to make cloud gaming workable longer than any of the other major players. Its current GeForce Now platform has gone through a few incarnations, and the current one is changing in a way subscribers won’t like much. Nvidia is . This brings it more in-line with other streaming platforms, but the price was Nvidia’s big advantage until now. GeForce Now started its life in 2013 as Nvidia Grid, which was available only on Nvidia’s Shield Android handheld. Nvidia eventually moved to a storefront model like Google Stadia uses today, but it was unable to convince gamers to buy games and pay for a monthly service.
Microsoft has announced it will bring the Xbox’s Auto HDR feature over to Windows 10. Over 1,000 titles will have HDR support retroactively added, vastly expanding the reach of the feature inside the PC ecosystem. This is a great announcement for PC gaming. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the current HDR situation on PC sucks. Historically, PC gamers have prided themselves on the superior rendering capabilities and cutting-edge features available for the platform. Heck, demos like Half-Life 2: Lost Coast were available for PC over a decade ago. So why all the problems now?
The Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a month, which works out to about 27 Martian sols. NASA is still conducting system tests on the vehicle, but it’s started to roll around the surface in recent days. This is the first Mars rover with a microphone, and it captured the eerie sounds of Perseverance . NASA has released two versions of the audio. Below is the processed version with just the “highlights” chosen by the Perseverance team. This version has the background noise filtered out to make the thumps and grinding of the wheels easier to hear. It’s easy to forget Perseverance’s wheels are metal.
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Mars used to be wet. That’s the overwhelming conclusion of the last two decades of Martian geological research based on data recorded by multiple probes and landers. It took us a lot longer to confirm the planet’s past state than its present one — we’ve had strong evidence suggesting arid conditions on Mars dating back to 1894, with additional confirming evidence gathered over the next 30 years. The current model for Mars’ transformation from a wet planet to a dry one relies on sublimation and the long-term damage our sun did to the Martian atmosphere after the planet’s global magnetic field shut down.
