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Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the British
Competition Markets Authority even though these are all American companies and Britain isn't supposed to be able to tell them what to do anymore
Throw Tomb Raider in the Harbour
UK officials say that the deal would likely reduce innovation and the choices available to UK gamers
But one of the CMA's key arguments involves the potential loss of competition in cloud gaming
Microsoft is already estimated to control between 60 and 70% of the current cloud gaming market
Which represents about 1% of the total gaming market quite popular with
Small amount of people an Activision spokesperson has said they will work aggressively with Microsoft to appeal the decision
And that I guess the UK is clearly closed for business, which I believe in the corporate world qualifies as
fighting words They had better watch their language or the head of the UK Competition and Markets Authority will have to challenge them to a duel to defend her
Honor They still have some strange traditions over there
trinket tea All the time if Microsoft does manage to reverse the decision and push through the acquisition
They would then have control of all of Activision's most popular online titles like Call of Duty
Overwatch World of Warcraft and Candy Crush still the world leader in dessert themed bejeweled ripoffs
Wow, you seem salty
Advertisement It's just bejeweled how many jewels do they need AMD has officially announced the Ryzen Z1 and Z1 extreme a pair of
Like that a pair a pair of four nanometer processors that make the Nintendo switch look like it's running a chip from 2015
Because it is less obviously the Z ones are designed to power the next generation of steam deck
Competitors like the ASUS ROG ally wait
I thought ASUS said the ally was running a special custom chip like the Steam decks
But AMD's press release says they're partnering with ASUS to launch the first Ryzen Z1 series device with the ASUS ROG
Ally so I guess after ASUS dropped all those hints that they and AMD were
Exclusive Team Red had to set the record straight. They're just looking for friends and casual profits
Some of these we already knew thanks to leaks indicating that the Z1 extreme is nearly identical to the Ryzen
77840U which has been spotted in the specs for several other
Upcoming handhelds massive credit to the Fox on YouTube for going deep on the analysis of these chips and thanks to ASUS for reminding us all to have the
Relationship talk with our prospective partners before making any embarrassing announcements on social media
It's complicated, okay? They made a chip for us, but I thought there was more and many American schools are dealing with storage rooms full of broken and
outdated Chromebooks which they bought in huge numbers at the start of the pandemic as a cheap alternative to good laptops like MacBooks
Which they obviously should have spent their massive amounts of state funding on instead. What were you doing?
Come on This is in part due to cheap construction
But also due to seemingly pointless tweaks to the design of otherwise basic parts that make sourcing and replacing them
Difficult and expensive two adjectives Google would very much not like you to associate with Chromebooks
Typically if a Chromebook has a single broken key the entire keyboard needs to be replaced at
90 bucks a pop not including labor and I mean not to state the obvious, but if it costs over a hundred dollars to fix a
$250 computer, it's not a it's not a fix you did you throw in that thing in the garbage
That's not that's some expensive garbage complicating the issue is that on paper
Chromebooks have a relatively generous eight years of guaranteed security updates
Wow, but the fine print says on that paper that eight years starts when the device is
Manufactured and many of these devices were sold to schools three or four years after that point meaning that they've got an expiry
Date baked in they didn't even print the best before date on the device
So hopefully schools won't make this same mistake again And instead will future-proof their class hardware by buying every student a MetaQuest pro
In the future You're gonna learn without legs at all stand back the bits are getting dangerously quick
It's distorting the space-time continuum. Is this because the flash is coming out?
Hey, good news in response to European regulations Apple will likely add support for
Sideloading in an upcoming iOS 17 update
Bad news Apple just added a feature to iOS 16 that allows it to restrict features based on a user's location
Meaning that sideloading might just be a European exclusive
Mm-hmm according to Apple sideloading will undermine the privacy and security protections of its users
It doesn't seem to have considered that it's my own damn phone And if I want to upload and run 18 identical copies of Bonzi, buddy, that's my own damn business
For a fun change of pace Microsoft has been stealing your private data by accident
The Edge browser's new creator follow feature which is meant to help users follow their favorite YouTube content creators across the world
Has a bug that instead sends every site you visit to Bing the stable AI which will use the data responsibly. I'm sure
Sydney wants to know where you've been
Fortunately, you can turn off the feature all you need to do is type download Firefox in the search bar
That'll do it Netflix is to estimate it to have lost over a million users in Spain after its new
Anti-password sharing rules were rolled out there in February only around a third of those users were paid subscribers
But that still means that account cancellations have tripled around a tenth of remaining Spanish subscribers claim
They plan to cancel in the near future Netflix however has yet to see substantial losses globally and seems undeterred as the new rules are set to roll out in the US
Over the next few weeks do remember to actually cancel your account though
The only thing worse than paying ten dollars a month to watch Netflix is paying ten dollars a month not to watch Netflix
News aggregator Artifact has a new AI feature that summarizes news articles in a variety of fun tones like explain like I'm five
emoji and poem It can also just summarize them in a normal boring professional tone
But come on live a little find out about the next crippling financial collapse in limerick format
Looking forward to the next time a monarch dies and it gets announced in emojis
Of course
Of course, there is still that little issue where LLM's will occasionally just make stuff up for no reason
Making this the high-tech equivalent of getting your news by asking a compulsive liar to explain world events via a
Pictionary that's basically what this show is a
Machine learning engineer named Santiago is using chat
GPT to communicate with their dog robot and give it commands using natural language
Okay, to be clear chat GPT is not actually controlling the dog bot rather, which is great news
Rather it's being used to query otherwise difficult to access information that the roboodle
As collected in a simple and intuitive way it also allows voice activation of certain pre-programmed actions
They've even programmed in some physical emotes that allow the mecha canine to briefly step out of the uncanny Valley and look
Almost cute
Still a fair amount of terrifying and if you weren't too unsettled come back on Wednesday for more tech news
Your host will be a real cutie
Cuter than a headless robo dog in any case. I
Don't know who's gonna host for the next one. I mean, yeah, then we can say they're cute Friday
Friday, I said meant Friday