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Tweet Nvidia today released its GeForce 411.70 WHQL drivers, replacing the 411.63 release from last week as the Game Ready drivers for Forza Horizon 4, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and FIFA 19. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The good old days of sending a ‘shocked face’ emoji to someone, and then receiving a ‘hungry face’ will soon be over since Samsung is updating its devices to match rival implementations of emoji. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft has updated the Surface website with official 64 and 128 GB storage numbers for the Surface Pro, but the site uses the binary system rather than the decimal system used in Surface ads. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had some choice words about Amazon’s Prime Instant video streaming service when quizzed about his competitors by the Wall Street Journal: “It’s really about low-cost shipping, but why is video in there? It’s kind of a confusing mess.” Hastings has in the past dismissed Amazon’s video subscription efforts as well, and tends to point instead to HBO and its HBO Go service as its real…

Tweet The CTIA wants you to know that Americans used 123 percent more wireless data in 2011 than 2010, but the wireless industry’s lobby apparently doesn’t want you to know exactly how that translates in any way a normal person understands. Instead the folks decided to use an overly complicated real world example to make the 866.7 billion megabytes used in 2011 meaningful. They turned it into songs. Check it…