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How To Earn Microsoft Reward Points While Playing Your Xbox Series X|S

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If you have an Xbox Series X or S, that means you already have a Microsoft account, and, presumably, you’ve linked the account to your console. If you haven’t, you’ll need to sign into the Microsoft account you want to use for earning rewards, so that when you play games and make purchases, the points go toward that particular email address. You can check out the points you’ve already earned, as well as various ways to earn more points, by heading over to the Microsoft Rewards user portal on the Bing website. You can also use the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox.

If you want to grow your points by playing Xbox games, you’ll need to sign up for the Xbox Game Pass subscription, which provides customers with a large library of games they can play, as well as some other perks. Points are earned by completing quests in games that are available in the Game Pass library. Microsoft says you can view these quests in the Rewards app under the Xbox Games Pass section. If you haven’t yet downloaded the app, you can get a snapshot look at how the rewards process works on the Xbox Games Pass Quests web page.

According to Microsoft, it adds new quests to this section of the Rewards app on a daily basis. Keep in mind that you’ll need to manually head over to that part of the app when you finish a quest in order to redeem the points. Once those points have been applied to your account, however, you’ll be able to redeem them for rewards within the same app.

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Today’s Wordle Answer #649 – March 30, 2023 Solution And Hints

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If you’re still unsure, the solution you seek is bread. Certainly, the word needs no introduction, but its origins might be unfamiliar to you. Etymonline reports that its specific roots are uncertain, but one prominent position is that it is from Proto-Germanic “brautham,” itself from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhreu-,: which means to boil, burn, or bubble, a reference to the rising or leavening of the dough used for bread.

The same source notes that the Oxford English Dictionary maintains that the word derives from Proto-Germanic “braudsmon-,” which means fragments or bits, in the sense of meaning “piece of food.” Fun fact, the Old English word for bread was “hlaf,” which is the root from which the modern word “loaf” is derived.

Since “great” worked, well … great as a starting word yesterday, we repeated it today as well, and it delivered. There were only eight possible answers after it, and we made a lucky and correct second guess. We hope you finish just as fast, and if you’re in the mood for more puzzles, check out these other Wordle-like games.

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Microsoft Is Already Exploring Ads For Bing Chat

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In a blog post published on March 29, Microsoft discussed the topics of boosting traffic and overall “value” for publishers in relation to Bing Chat. The company acknowledged the role that publishers play in creating content and the vital importance of advertisements, which fund the paychecks for those behind the websites. The company says that it has made it a “top goal” to “drive more traffic to publishers in this new world of search.”

Revenue is a key concern, of course, which is where the second goal comes in. Microsoft says that it is working on “pioneering the future of advertising” as it relates to an AI-dominated internet. How will it do that? Two possibilities were shared: displaying multiple links from publishers when the user hovers over a reference, and a revenue-sharing arrangement with publishers that could, among other things, involve putting ads in the chatbot. In the example provided by Microsoft — which is simply referred to as an idea at this time — the revenue would be shared with the publishers whose content was used to generate the answer for the user.

Of course, Bing Chat is only one player in the arena, with its most notable competition being Google Bard — though the latter is still very much in its infancy and was, by all accounts, a rushed project spurred out of desperation to stay competitive. It seems likely that Google will eventually embrace some sort of revenue-sharing arrangement of its own, but only time will tell how that works out.

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The 2024 Porsche Cayenne Debuts A Dramatic Dashboard Upgrade

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For infotainment, the main screen is a 12.3-inch display that shows your navigation and music, similar to the screen used by the Taycan. Below that, Porsche put the climate controls. In a move that will make plenty of old-school gearheads happy, Porsche used physical buttons to control the A/C and heat. 

Front-seat riders can enjoy an optional 10.9-inch feature on the passenger side of the cabin. That screen can stream media or allow the passenger to act as the vessel’s navigator. According to Porsche, a filter on the screen prevents the driver from getting distracted. Onboard Siri functionality can also bear the load if necessary. The interior also features a litany of USB-C chargers that can keep devices topped up and a wireless and cooled charging pad that can deliver up to 15 watts. 

According to Porsche, the 2024 Cayenne will be fully revealed on April 18th. 

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