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Xbox’s Phil Spencer might have just teased Microsoft’s streaming console

Phil Spencer, the head of all things Xbox at Microsoft, might have just revealed the tech giant’s upcoming game streaming box, currently codenamed ‘Keystone.’

In a recent tweet shared from his personal Twitter account celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bethesda’s Fallout franchise, a small Xbox Series S-like console can be seen near the top of the image, slightly below a replica Witcher sword.

This could be Spencer teasing the still unrevealed device, or it could be just some sort of a small Xbox Series S toy. Phil Spencer has done this in the past, though. For example, leading up to the Xbox Series S’ reveal, the Xbox exec hid the console in the background of several public videos.

Back in May, Microsoft confirmed the Keystone codename and that it’s working on a streaming device designed to be “connected to any TV or monitor without the need for a console,” in a statement to Windows Central.

It’s unclear when Xbox’s anticipated game streaming device will be revealed, but if Spencer is teasing it in the background of videos, we’ll likely see it in the coming weeks. With Google’s Stadia platform now dead, Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service has little competition in the space beyond services like Sony’s PS Now and Nvidia GeForce.

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Daryl Hannah arrested over oil protest

Daryl Hannah has been arrested in Texas.

The ‘Kill Bill’ actress was taken into custody for criminal trespassing and resisting arrest and held at the Wood County Jail after she and a landowner stepped in front of machinery to halt the construction of an oil pipeline.

Daryl and 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild were hoping to stop the progress of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipe through the latter’s farmland in Winnsboro – which was subject to a compulsory purchase order for the project – almost a hundred miles east of Dallas.

The pipeline is designed to bring crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Daryl’s agent, Paul Bassis, said the protesters were likely to be kept in jail last night (04.10.12), adding: "They’ve arrested Daryl Hannah and a rural Texas great-grandmother.

"The streets of Winnsboro will be much safer tonight now that they’ve gotten that 78-year-old great grandmother off the streets."

Daryl has previously been arrested for protesting against the pipeline in Washington D.C. in 2011.

She and other activists believe it will carry heavy, acidic crude oil that could corrode a metal pipeline and lead to a spill. They also claim that by not refining the oil, it would further contaminate the air in a region that struggles with pollution.

TransCanada counter that the pipeline will be the safest ever built. The issue has even been debated by President Barak Obama.

Speaking of Daryl’s arrest, TransCanada spokesman David Dodson said: "It is unfortunate Ms. Hannah and other out-of-state activists have chosen to break the law by illegally trespassing on private property."

He added protesters were "putting their own safety and the safety of others at risk".