• It costs $50 to plug an Xbox One Kinect into your PC

  What's stopping you from creating the first killer Kinect 2.0 hack? Well, now that Microsoft's released the do-all sensor's SDK to the public for free you don't have many more excuses. The software development kit is available without any fees and...

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• Microsoft yields to Spotify, kills the free ad-supported Xbox Music Pass

  Microsoft plans to shut down the free version of its Xbox Music Pass streaming service in December, the company announced today. Xbox Music Pass is an on-demand streaming music service that's more or less Microsoft's version of Spotify, which it created to help lure customers into its Xbox media…

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• Microsoft Android Wear app lets you search Bing by twisting your wrist

  Slightly irked that you have to say "OK Google" whenever you want to use voice search on your Android Wear smartwatch? Microsoft, of all companies, is coming to your rescue. The developer is leading a trio of experimental Android releases with...

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