A Tumblr site has gone live that promises some kind of announcement related to Halo 5: Guardians, the next game in Microsoft’s first person shooter series for the Xbox One, on Sunday, March 22.

We may have gotten our first look at the Demo Kits that will be used to allow customers to try on in-ear headphones in Apple Retail Stores.

Apple’s intention to let customers try on in-ear headsets in their stores was reported earlier this month. The Demo Kit were reported to consist of six pairs of headphones: The urBeats, Beats Tour, and PowerBeats 2 Wireless, all made by the Apple-owned Beats Electronics, and the RHA MA450i, JayBird BlueBuds X, and the Bose QC20.

An image of the kit has reportedly surfaced, thanks to Japanese blog Macotakara.

Customers who make use of the Demo Kit are said to be able to keep the tips that are used when trying on headphones. Apple Store employees will apparently also wipe down the headphones after each use. This will help keep the process sanitary, a major issue with trying in-ear headphones on in a public store.

Source: Macotakara (in Japanese); via 9to5Mac

Have you said, “Xbox, record that” lately due to an epic kill? How about to some funny bug you encountered? Well, we want you to share those moments with us, and we’ll reward you for doing so. Each week, we’ll pick one lucky winner for the week’s theme on Xbox One. This is our inaugural edition of the Windows Central Xbox Upload Challenge!

Although BlackBerry slipped up a bit early and listed the device formerly known as the Z20, now the BlackBerry Leap, inside FCC documents for the BlackBerry Passport, the BlackBerry Leap has arrived at the FCC seeking approval. As the device is already official, the FCC documents don’t reveal much of anything that isn’t already known about the latest all-touch device except, perhaps, a possible approximate launch time frame for North America.

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Microsoft is giving US residents that are 16 years of age or older a chance to win one of five Lumia 830 smartphones in a new giveaway content on the company’s official Lumia Facebook page.

We’re big fans of Dell’s latest XPS 13 round these parts, but one issue there has been outside of the U.S. is availability of the full range. In the UK, for example, the only models to go on sale initially were the range topping, Intel Core i7 models. Fortunately that’s improved since and now British buyers can spend substantially less and get one from £799.

Brent Schlender, co-author of the upcoming Becoming Steve Jobs, opens up about his relationship with Jobs in the new book.

Jobs and Schlender first met in 1986 as Jobs was trying to get publicity for NeXT. Schlender, who at the time was working for The Wall Street Journal, refused to do a story on Jobs and the company. But that didn’t sour Jobs’ opinion on him, and it marked the beginning of what would be a 25-year relationship between subject and reporter, according to Fortune:

“Not writing a feature was the first salvo in the twenty-five-year-long negotiation that marked our relationship,” writes Schlender in the prologue that kickstarts the book. “There was never a minute where the basic terms of our relationship weren’t clear: I was the reporter, he was the source and subject.”

Schlender and Jobs eventually began speaking regularly, with long interviews, phone calls, and hospital visits:

Jobs cultivated Schlender, gave him long interviews, called him to gossip and complain. Schlender visited Jobs at home; Jobs visited Schlender in the hospital, where they ended up together more often than either would have wished.

Becoming Steve Jobs will be available beginning Tuesday, March 24. In addition to reporting from Schlender and co-auther Rick Tetzeli, the book contains interviews with many of the people who new Jobs best, including Apple executives Jony Ive and Tim Cook, and Job’s wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. You can pre-order the book on both iTunes and Amazon.

• Pre-order from iTunes
• Pre-order on Amazon

Source: Fortune

Google has developed a specialized tablet in order to assist aid workers in Sierra Leone with easily tracking the vitals of patients afflicted with Ebola.

The device, which is essentially a Sony Xperia tablet wrapped in a protective casing, is designed to be used with gloves and can endure the harsh weather conditions in the area. Additionally, the case’s round corners eliminate any risk of piercing the protective clothing used by aid workers.

The Windows Phone version of the MX Player media app got an update today with a few improvements listed. It also shows that there’s a new subtitle function with several formats.