Fri. 05/27 – An Xbox Gaming Dongle

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Microsoft is creating an HDMI dongle to turn any tv or monitor into an Xbox gaming console. Now the lawsuits are popping off in the whole Elon/Twitter thing. If even high profile startups like Substack are having trouble raising rounds, what does that mean for run of the mill startups? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: HubSpot.com Masterworks.io/ride Links: Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone' (Windows Central) Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal (CNBC) Twitter director Egon Durban won’t leave the board after shareholders voted to boot him (CNBC) Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes) Weekend Longreads Suggestions The big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere (MIT Technology Review) In India’s Mobile-Payments Boom, Even Beggars Get QR Codes (WSJ) The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top (Forbes) THE UNSTOPPABLE MACHINES BEHIND THE GAME CONSOLE SHORTAGE (The Verge) Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives (The Guardian) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, May 27th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.6	Microsoft is creating an HDMI dongle to turn any TV or monitor into an Xbox gaming console.
0:14.6	Now the lawsuits are popping off in the whole Elon Twitter thing.
0:18.6	If even high profile startups like Substack
0:21.4	are having trouble raising rounds.
0:22.6	What does that mean for run of the mill startups?
0:25.2	And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:27.6	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.6	Microsoft has confirmed it is developing an
0:34.7	HDMI device codenamed Keystone that connects to any TV or monitor and
0:39.2	offers Xbox game streaming on that screen, quoting Windows Central.
0:44.0	For a few years, rumors have persisted that Microsoft was exploring building some form of
0:48.0	streaming stick to offer Xbox Cloud Gaming via a more affordable dongle,
0:52.0	similarly to Chromcast and Google Stadia.
0:55.7	The first hint was Project Hobart.
0:57.8	More recently, a cod named Keystone appeared in an Xbox OS list, lending fire to rumors that Microsoft was continuing to explore additional hardware for the Xbox lineup.
1:06.7	We can now confirm that that is indeed true, and it pertains to a modernized
1:11.6	HDMI streaming device that runs Xbox Game Pass
1:14.4	and its Cloud Gaming Service.
1:16.0	Microsoft is, however, exploring additional iterations of the product
1:19.0	before taking it to market.
1:21.0	In a statement provided to Windows Central,
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