Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, June 11th, 2018. Today,

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different philosophical viewpoints headlines from the ramp-up to E3 new Apple Watch

rumors an analysis of the scooter economy, and do those on-screen fingerprint scanners work well?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Some of you might know that E3, the gaming industry's big comfab is this week.

And so the news and announcements are starting to come fast and furious.

As I teased last week it seems that the word of the day is streaming.

Microsoft revealed at a press conference over the weekend that it is working on a streaming gaming service that could premiere in the next few years.

The announcement came from Phil Spencer, who heads up Microsoft's gaming division, who said quote our cloud engineers are

building a game streaming network to unlock console gaming on any device and quote

but that doesn't mean that Microsoft is ready to abandon hardware consoles just yet.

Spencer also said that Microsoft is deep into architecting the next Xbox console

and that hardware can still deliver gaming advancements.

Quote, our experts in Microsoft research are developing the future of gaming AI,

so the worlds and characters we enjoy will be more rich and more immersive."

Microsoft also announced that it was purchasing the game studios

undead labs playground games,

Ninja Theory, and compulsion games.

As Tech Crunch's Lucas Matney said,

this will add considerable heft

to Microsoft's first-party game development program.

Microsoft had seen so much criticism of the lack of prestige

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