The UK’s competition authority has found that Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard could result in a “substantial lessening of competition in gaming consoles” and “could harm UK gamers.” In a provisional finding, the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) said that Activision may need to be split up into separate businesses for the merger … Read more
Bing may be back. Microsoft announced yesterday it’s partnering with OpenAI to enhance Bing with its AI technology. However, Microsoft also had a surprise up its sleeve: The next release of Bing will tap into a new next-generation language model the company claims is “much more powerful” than ChatGPT and designed specifically to excel at … Read more
Samsung’s latest 77-inch S95 QD-OLED TV generated some buzz at CES this year thanks to brightness levels up to 2,000 nits, 144Hz refresh rates and more. Now, the company has revealed that you’ll pay to get those premium features: $4,500 for the 77-inch model, with shipping set to start in the US on February 15th. … Read more
Virgin Orbit’s first orbital launch from UK soil, which was supposed to be a huge milestone for the company and for the region, may have ended in failure because of a component that cost around $100. According to SpaceNews, Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart has revealed at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, California that … Read more
Apple has expanded the internal testing for its Pay service’s buy now, pay later feature to include its retail employees, according to Bloomberg. When the tech giant’s experimental features make their way to its retail staff, that’s typically a sign that it’s going to be released in the near future. Apple Store workers started testing … Read more
Canon has put Sony and its other rivals on blast with the launch of the $1,500 24-megapixel EOS R8, its cheapest full-frame camera yet. Released alongside the $680 R50 APS-C model, it’s targeted to photographers and video creators on a budget. However, it’s got some impressive features like uncropped, oversampled 4K video up 60 fps, … Read more
Canon is adding a new, more affordable entry point into its RF mirrorless camera ecosystem. Alongside the full-frame EOS R8, the company unveiled today the EOS R50, an APS-C RF mount camera that will start at $680 when it goes on sale later this year. Canon didn’t send over a full spec sheet, but judging … Read more
For one night only, Disney’s breakout Star Wars series is coming to cable TV. Ahead of the premiere of the third season of The Mandalorian on March 1st, Disney announced today it would air the show’s debut episode, “Chapter 1: The Mandalorian,” on February 24th. If you somehow haven’t seen the series before, you can … Read more
The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard yesterday, Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond, WA today. Through a partnership … Read more
You can add Zoom to the long list of major tech companies that have laid off employees in recent times. It’s letting go around 1,300 employees, which equates to 15 percent of the workforce. In a note to staff, CEO Eric Yuan indicated that the company expanded its headcount too quickly after Zoom’s pandemic-driven boom … Read more