this Tech news would sound a little better if it had been open a few hours
ago but uh I think it still passes the smell
test Microsoft has finally completed their $69 billion acquisition of
Activision Blizzard king after a year and a half of being grilled and harassed
by the government to make sure they won't set every Xbox to self-destruct oh
exhausting the biggest buyout in gaming history went ahead right after the UK's
comp ition and markets Authority approved an altered deal that will see
Ubisoft holding the cloud gaming rights to current and future Activision
Blizzard games outside of the European economic area and if you think that
sounds confusing yeah basically if you purchase
an Activision Blizzard game and you live in the EU Iceland lakstein or Norway
you'll have a license to stream that game from any cloud gaming streaming
service of your choice assuming they have the game on that
service available to stream but if you live anywhere else it'll be up to
Ubisoft to Grant licenses for Activision
Blizzard games to cloud gaming Services
meaning Microsoft will have to license the games owned by the companies it now
owns if it wants those games to be streamable on Game Pass ultimate outside
of Europe okay and you might be saying Riley can you shut up about cloud gaming
no one cares about that to which I'd say everyone said the same about mobile
games and now those make the most money in the gaming industry but hey it was
all worth it for Xbox to own Call of Duty and more importantly Crash
Bandicoot meanwhile the FTC says they're still focused on stopping the deal and
are preparing an argument to submit to an appeals court in December bit harder
to stop something from happening after it's already happened but hey you know
best of luck we have to go back in time we have to go back Marty Best Buy will
no longer sell movies in their physical form starting in 2024 meaning you'll
have to buy your DVDs or 4K Blu-rays from the trunk of Ply's car just like in
the good old days the news was initially reported by the digital bits and later
confirmed by Best Buy who told Variety in a statement that the way we watch
movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago to State
the obvious uh unless I'm mistaken I'm
not looping film reels over top of my television and using the light to try
and see the pictures in there okay we have computers now of course while the
move is bad news for preservationists it's somewhat unsurprising it's been 5
years since Best Buy stopped selling music CDs and according to Josh
fairhurst CEO of limited run games there are Rumblings of Walmart dropping sales
of physical games soon however while retailers are retreating from the
physical world Netflix is looking to enter it CEO Ted Sandos announced plans
to open something called a Netflix house
in two locations and I don't know what that sounds like except something I
wouldn't let my daughter visit the houses will have merch food and fan
experiences but unlike Disneyland s says
you might visit a couple times a month not just once every couple years you
know like getting beers with the boys but instead of wings you order the
demagorgon roast I have no context for what this place is going to be I just
what is it and this CEO of risk 5 International which oversees the open-
source chip architecture has written in opposition to the idea that the US
should block China's access to Technology based on risk 5 because it's
an open- Source standard and uh that's
not how they work last week a group of us lawmakers petitioned the Biden
Administration to cut China off from risk 5 an idea that I mean doesn't seem
particularly concerning to the Chinese members of risk 5 International
including Alibaba Cloud Huawei ZTE and tensent who haven't commented one way or
the other the CEO of a leading Chinese risk 5 chip company told the South China
Morning Post that since risk 5 is again
an open standard the us could only block exports from us companies to China but
they wouldn't be able to block China from building their own products with
risk 5 which they have been doing already for quite a while I don't know
maybe the US government should be worried less about China and more about
the chair of risk 5 International who recently said he wanted every chip in
the world to be risk 5 showing a slide titled all your cores are belong to us
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they are what the no you're you're way
off OnePlus will be launching its first foldable the OnePlus open on October
19th it's not clear yet how much the phone will cost but OnePlus is offering
$200 off for pre-orders and up to $11,000 in trade and credit so it's
definitely way more than that despite the air of mystery the device is
essentially a rebadged version of the find and3 from Oppo who've already
allowed YouTuber jagat review to post a Hands-On with a device where he Compares
it to the Galaxy ZF 5 the open seems to have a wider inside and outside display
and a far more subtle hinge crease in the screen like somebody airbrushed a
butt crack leaving only a single shiny mono cheek what a glorious image a judge
has thrown out a 2022 decision that found Google had infringed five of Sonos
patents because two out of five were filed in 2019 not 2006 as Sonos claimed
bad billion doll company bad the
original decision granted Sonos $32.5 million in Damages but rather than pay
licensing fees for the features Google pushed a software update that removed
the group speaker features from devices that paying customers had already bought
consumers are basically babies they lack object permanence huh where' it where'
it go I guess it was never there Google of course celebrated the recent decision
by immediately pushing another software update restoring the features they had
previously taken away presumably causing users to clap their hands and drool
inight like a game of peekaboo there's some features it's featur it's it's back
NVIDIA's Jensen hang has topped a recent most popular CEO survey no doubt due to
that sexy leather jacket can't stay mad at him based on a
survey conducted by the professional social network blind over 96% of the
13,000 verified in employees there said
they approved of Wong's leadership numbers rarely seen outside of North
Korea Tim Apple CEO of cook also came in
the top five with 83% while the average
was only 32% with at least two CEOs landing at zero I don't know exactly
what's going on at Western Digital and Nordstrom but it's not good it involves
lying I think speaking of CEOs Google's
current leader Sundar pitchai had a fairly reasonable take on the the issue
of the search engine being set as the default in Safari back in 2007 according
to emails revealed during the ongoing USV Google trial peachi who was part of
the search team back then thought that Apple's idea of offering two separate
versions of safari one for Google and one for Yahoo was maybe not as good as
just adding a drop down menu allowing users to switch search engines it's nice
to see a tech executive thinking about the end user experience while
coordinating massive payments to have their product presented as the default
and after many Counterstrike two players were inexplicably banned valve has
warned anyone playing on AMD gpus to
switch off team Red's antiag plus feature which arrived earlier this week
in a driver update until valve can fix the issue the feature minimizes input
lag but it does so by injecting itself into the game's code making it look like
unauthorized tampering is occurring and leading to a vac ban you can hardly
blame players for trying to make the game smoother although along with the
lag issues it's also brought some Hidden Treasures I mean teabagging has got
nothing on tea twerking and I would certainly be reading a segue about
twerking if Jacob was here but he's off today so I'll simply tell you to please
return on Monday for more Tech news please thank you