Project Scorpio, Xbox One S, Gears of War 4 and more: Everything Microsoft just announced at E3 2016 and other top stories.

• Project Scorpio, Xbox One S, Gears of War 4 and more: Everything Microsoft just announced at E3 2016

  After a run of hardware rumours, it turned out that yes, Microsoft really did have two new consoles planned: the leaked Xbox One S and the unexpected Project Scorpio, a VR ready, 4K beast. Those two announcements book ended the Xbox E3 conference but there was plenty on show in between. Here's how it all unfolded live from the show floor.Straight into the new hardware, with the Xbox One S confirmed off the bat! White, with a new textured controller -- all just $299.Gears of War 4 is the first g..

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• Jupiter-Size Alien World Is Biggest 'Tatooine' Planet with 2 Suns Ever Found

  

  A newfound alien world is the biggest ever discovered that has two suns in its sky, like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in the "Star Wars" universe. Whereas the fictional Tatooine is a small and rocky world, however, the real-life Kepler-1647b is a gas giant about the size and mass of Jupiter. In addition to being the biggest known two-star planet, Kepler-1647b also has the widest orbit, circling its host stars in 1,107 Earth days, astronomers said. And the planet's intrigu..

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• Ubisoft's Steep is a daredevil sim for winter sports

  

  Ubisoft is launching a new extreme winter sports game dubbed Steep. It combines the majesty of gigantic mountains in the Alps and extreme sports such as paragliding and wingsuit acrobatics. Igor Manceau, the creative director at Ubisoft’s studio in Annecy, France, said the game has been in the works for two-and-a-half years as a passion project at the studio, which is based near the French Alps. Annecy is 30 kilometers away from Mount Blanc, one of the highest peaks. And it’s also a center for..

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• Apple touts AI in iOS -- with barely a mention of the term -- and opens 'crown jewels' to devs

  

  Apple CEO Tim Cook and a small battalion of his lieutenants took to a stage today in a fast-paced keynote that pushed back against talk that the company lags behind rivals  in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and opened some of the company's crown jewels to third-party developers.Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote focused on software and, to a lesser extent than last year, on services, touting small and not-so-small improvements to all four of its operating systems: macOS..

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• El Niño Has Pushed Our Planet Past a Major Climate Milestone

  

  Image: Chris Harrison/Flickr The monster El Niño of 2015-2016 is finally gone, but scientists are still coming to terms with its impacts on the planet. Among those impacts: charging up the global carbon cycle and pushing atmospheric CO2 levels above 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire year—a first in human history. Humans are constantly adding CO2 to the atmosphere, a reality which has been carefully chronicled at the Mauna Loa Climate Observatory since 1958. Over the past 60 years, th..

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• E3 2016: Ubisoft Finally Reveals 'Ghost Recon: Wildlands' Gameplay

  

  It's been a year since fans got a chance to see 'Ghost Recon: Wildlands' — and Ubisoft's next-gen open-world shooter is looking better than ever.  ( Ubisoft ) It's hard to believe that it's already been a year since Ghost Recon: Wildlands made its grand debut at the end of Ubisoft's E3 2015 press conference. Granted, the game was clearly still in development: art assets were unpolished, the visuals looked relatively simple and performance didn't seem like it could keep up with th..

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