Why are TikTokers acting like NPCs in a video game? Netflix has removed the basic plan in the U.S. and the U.K. And we have the latest on the soap-opera that is the Microsoft-Activision acquisition.
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend their merger deadline to October, the UK’s CMA grants initial approval to Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel licenses its NUC designs to Asus.
How can chatbots replace human subjects in scientific research? Microsoft announced details on some new chatbot features coming to Microsoft 365 business users. And are people warming to “Apple’s Most Hated Product.” Apple Maps?
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The White House announces the US Cyber Trust Mark for smart home and fitness tracker devices, Facebook adds new video-focused features, and a court grants Apple a 90-day stay on App Store changes so it can appeal to SCOTUS.
A meme is the centerpiece of cinema right now–Barbie meets Oppenheimer. Are memes the future of cinema when you can’t just will a meme to being cool? We make some of our picks with the newly announced Emmy nominations. Wonka trailer looks…bad? Bad! All that and more on Cordkillers!
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Sony agrees to keep all of Duty available for PlayStation for 10 years after the Microsoft Blizzard acquisition closes. A Financial Times report found that the .mil domain used by the US military often gets typo’d as .ml the country code domain for the West African country Mali possible to data leaks. And TechRadar’s Christian Guyton cites several users claiming that ChatGPT output quality decreased since switching to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
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