When Microsoft first announced the Xbox One back in 2013, the tech giant was pretty clear that this was meant to be a new kind of console. It was meant to play games, sure, but more importantly, it was meant to serve as the center of the any home entertainment system. That’s what the “One” means: this is the one device you need to tie your whole system together. “Input one,” read the cryptic banners at E3. Things didn’t exactly work out that way: the voice commands never worked as well as people wanted them to, the gesture commands were essentially nonfunctional, and Sony’s ascendant PS4 quickly stole the next-gen gaming spotlight. But at Gamescom, Microsoft finally announced that the Xbox One would be getting a DVR for live TV: a little reminder of the machine’s ambitions.

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As news of the formalized Clean Power Plan swept through the energy sector, the press releases starting flowing in. While skepticism abounds, there’s still a lot of fanfare surrounding yesterday’s announcement — with much of it coming from green energy corners.

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Windows 10 may be already out on PCs, but anyone using Microsoft’s Xbox One is still stuck with those old green blocks that defined Microsoft’s brief and unsuccessful foray into new territory with Windows 8. Windows 10 and DirectX 12 is already getting some positive feedback from gamers — even if some early problems with NVIDIA chips had a way of rendering some systems unusable — and Microsoft announced today that the Xbox One would be switching over to Windows 10 this November.

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There is increasing concern these days about young people in North America who are being radicalized and then declaring allegiance to foreign extremists such as ISIL, Al Qaeda or Boko Haram. For example, according to an article in The Telegraph, American officials believe that about 150 of their citizens have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIL and that about 40 are believed to have returned home.
New York Times journalist Somini Sengupta points out,

(T)he prospect of radicalized youths’ becoming hardened on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq has sent a new ripple of anxiety through nations of all stripes, reviving a longstanding tension, especially in democratic countries, over how to balance civil liberties and security in an age of transnational terrorism.

While we might all agree that these extremists need to be stopped and that we need to eliminate their threat to our lives, the question is what is the best way to do that?

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I don’t eat Cheerios. But if I did, I probably would have spat my Cheerios out of my mouth in shock after I recently read a few reports on marketing automation. Here’s why I was stunned: marketing automation is one of the most valuable tools the modern day marketer can employ and yet it’s been adopted by less than 10% of companies.

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For investors, the ad-tech sector has been mostly a disaster. But there is one company that has bucked the trend – that is, Criteo.

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President Obama announced the participants in today’s first-ever “White House Demo Day”, an event promoting entrepreneurship focusing on startups with “founders from diverse walks of life and from across the country”. These startups will be showcasing their innovations at today’s event.

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We’ve still got another month before the annual software slugfest begins in earnest this fall, but already it’s shaping up to be a very significant season for this console generation. In fact, from now until the end of 2015 is the Xbox One’s best chance to gain ground on the PS4 that we’ve seen to date. It may be the best chance it ever has.

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