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  Dubs 2020 as the year of zero-day exploits.

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• Ionos adds AMD hardware to server roster

  Intel-only shop acknowledges AMDs recent performance improvements.

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• Microsoft PowerPoint is getting a recording studio to help you nail presentations

  Even if you're using the best presentation software, delivering the perfect presentation to your audience can be difficult which is why Microsoft is adding a new recording studio to PowerPoint.

  Whether you're working from home and delivering your presentation over video conferencing software or planning to present your ideas to your team in the office, PowerPoint's recording studio allows you to practice beforehand so you can deliver more impactful and engaging presentations.

  By clicking “Record” in the top right corner in PowerPoint, you'll be taken to a personalized view that you can customize with a countdown to let you know when to begin speaking. 

  If you want to improve your presentation further while practicing, you can also annotate on slides as you go using ink and laser pointer.

  Recording studio views and sharing

  As everyone has their own unique preferences when viewing and presenting their work in PowerPoint, Microsoft has created three recording studio views to choose from.

  The first one, which is the default view, is Teleprompter view and this view is ideal for many recordings as its helps presenters focus on getting their points across successfully. It allows you to simultaneously look at your webcam and read your notes. 

  Presenter view meanwhile shows the slide you're currently presenting and your notes on the right side of the pane along with thumbnail views of all upcoming slides in a similar way to PowerPoint Live presenter view. Finally, Side view is for those that like to keep things simple and speak spontaneously. This view is also recommended for users that plan to make annotations on their slides as they go and need a larger canvas.

  Once you've finished recording a presentation in PowerPoint, you can click on “Export” to save it as a video and share it with your colleagues. However, if your PowerPoint file and video are on SharePoint or OneDrive, they're automatically saved to the same location.

  While giving presentations can be a nerve-wracking experience for some people, Microsoft's new recording studio in PowerPoint should help alleviate some of the anxiety as users will have plenty of chances to practice and refine them before showing their work to an audience.

  Also check out our roundups of the best online collaboration tools and the best free office software

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• The Tesla infotainment system could soon support your entire Steam library

  Elon Musk has revealed on Twitter that there are plans being developed to expand the gaming capabilities of the Tesla infotainment system, including the ability to add support for Steam. 

  Musk confirmed in his Tweet that his team are also currently working on both specific title support after expressing on a post from CDProjekt Red's official Cyberpunk 2077 account that it was a ‘great game’ which prompted another user to asky when the Sci-Fi RPG would be arriving on either the Tesla Model S or Model X.

  Considering that Steam has a 50,000 game library, Musk has claimed that this would be “obviously where we should be long-term”. The updated infotainment system for Tesla vehicles features a 17-inch display and contains AMD Navi 23 graphics. Tesla has kept the details of this AMD GPU a closely guarded secret, but it’s currently rumored that it features around 28 Compute Units clocked up to 2.8 GHz. 

  We’re working through the general case of making Steam games work on a Tesla vs specific titles. Former is obviously where we should be long-term.February 22, 2022

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  If true, this would suggest that the Tesla infotainment system is capable of providing up to 10 teraflops of computing power – which isn’t far off the 10.28 teraflops boasted by Sony’s PS5. It’s little wonder then that Musk has previously teased other games would be playable on the EV from the CDProjekt Red library – namely The Witcher 3.

  It’s likely that Tesla can piggyback off the hard work already completed by Valve to support as much of the full Steam library as possible on its upcoming Steam Deck console, which is based on the same AMD RDNA2 architecture. Large games like God of War, which was recently released for the PC platform, are able to run astonishingly well on the Valve handheld, which sets some lofty expectations for the Tesla infotainment system.

  No date has been set for any of these developments, and that’s if they even make it past…. well, development. Updates are expected to Tesla Arcade for the Model X and Model S, but again, no arrival date has been set so it’s likely we won’t see any of these features implemented until around 2023.

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  Opinion: Am I a car, or am I a console? 

  Maybe I’m getting old and boring, but my first reaction to reading Musk's tweet was “...why?”. 

  PC gaming on a handheld has a lot more appeal given you could take the Steam Deck anywhere, but porting the entire Steam library to a car feels a tad perplexing. The wise words of Dr Ian Malcom ring true -they’ve spent so much time thinking whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. 

  Give me the option of playing Cyberpunk 2077 on a console (or PC), a handheld or…well, a car and the first will always win. It may have its uses if you’re stuck waiting in your vehicle while parked, but this all feels like a wasted effort if you won’t find yourself in that scenario very often. 

  That said, I don’t own a Tesla. Perhaps this is a feature that’s in especially high demand from folks who actually own and drive the EVs. If this is an easy implementation then it’s a no-brainer to add Steam to the Tesla range, even if only for marketing material – a car with the gaming capabilities of a current-gen console is obviously going to get some attention, though I'd be interested to know if it will be  disabled automatically when the vehicle is in motion.

  If developing Steam support isn’t going to be a simple task though, Tesla may find that time is better spent fixing the issues blighting its self-driving system rather than trying to attract new customers with the promise of a 50k game library.

  • Check if Steam Deck can play your favorite games with this handy tool

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