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Battlefield 2042 announced, Edge 92 arrives in Beta channel, Google kills Measure app

June 09, 2021

Hi folks, here's today's edition of the newsletter.

Microsoft has begun rolling out Edge version 92 to the Beta channel, bringing features such as automatic HTTPS, font rendering improvement tests, enhancements to vertical tabs, and more.

Microsoft is working with the U.S. Army on its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). 120,000 headsets with HoloLens tech will be produced with on-field installation starting in September.

A farmer from the UK has started using the waste produced from his farm's cows to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency using GPU mining rigs. What's more, the business appears to be growing.

Google has put down its Measure app that utilized ARCore features to compute an object's dimensions via your Android phone's camera. Starting today, it won't be available for download.

A bug in the Fastly CDN network software created a massive Internet outage yesterday affecting 85% of their sites when a single customer made a normal change to their own settings.

Microsoft has announced new features coming to OneDrive running on Apple hardware later this year including native support for Apple M1, KFM, and an improved Finder and Files On-Demand experience.

EA and DICE today took the wrappings off Battlefield 2042 with a reveal trailer highlighting the next-gen graphics, new features like wingsuits, and more. The launch is slated for this October.

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