The EU General Court overturned a 2009 Intel antitrust fine, Activision Blizzard reportedly has agreements in place to release the next three Call of Duty Games on PlayStation, and security researchers disclose a major Linux vulnerability that’s been around since 2009.
DTNS is evaluating the Streamyard streaming service and we need your help! This Friday Jan 28th at 3pm (Los Angeles Time) we’ll be testing our setup on the DTNS/GDI Twitch stream. All we need is a few audience members to give us feedback on what they see and hear on the stream. The test will last about 30 minutes.
8K is what’s new as 4K becomes the new standard for high-definition displays. But are people ready for it and more importantly interested in it? Google’s been in the process of looking for a products to replace cookies, and split the difference between privacy and ad tracking. And is Nvidia saying goodbye to its Arm acquisition ambitions?
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Nvidia may abandon ARM acquisition over regulatory issues, Coinbase adds new tax center to aid American customers with the IRS, and Google switches up FLoC for Topics.
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Dealogic have calculated that Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet each announced more acquisitions in 2021 than any year in the past decade. Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, has lost control over this WeChat account. And a Penn State and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory team has released new research that allows its previously developed thermoelectric generator to be made flexible, letting it wrap around common waste heat sources without any glue.
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AGs from the District of Columbia, Texas, Washington and Indiana sue Google over misleading users on location data, Panasonic will start mass producing more energy dense lithium-ion batteries next year, and Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon made a lot of acquisition in 2021.