Daily News update on – Technology

The Washington Post

The company called cloud gaming “immature” and “unproven” in a dense, tidbit-rich filing as part of its latest effort to push through a $68.7 billion deal to acquire video game maker Activision Blizzard, pending regulatory approval.

Mac Rumors

A15 Bionic chip: · 4GB of RAM: · 128GB storage option: · HDR10+ support: · Siri Remote with USB-C port: · Thinner and lighter design: · No more “TV” branding on top: · Lower pricing: …

TechCrunch

Building on Activision Blizzard’s existing communities of gamers, Xbox will seek to scale the Xbox Store to mobile, attracting gamers to a new Xbox Mobile Platform,” the company wrote in its filings. Mobile games …

IGN

Candy is not the only reward you can reap during Destiny 2’s Halloween Event. By collecting Spectral Pages during in-game events and converting those into Manifested Pages during Haunted Sectors runs, you can complete the Book of the Forgotten to earn …

CNET

In its response to a CMA decision to refer the acquisition for a secondary review, Microsoft argued that gamers will be more likely to try its Xbox mobile store if they see that it includes well-known games.

CNET

The technology lets video editors “edit video in the same way you would edit a text document since our technology transforms the contents of a video into a text-based, searchable transcript,” Adobe exclusively revealed to CNET.

TechCrunch

Project Clever Composites (as Adobe’s calling it) leverages AI for automatic image compositing. To be more specific, it automatically predicts an object’s scale, determining where the best place might be to insert it in an …

Reseller News

Microsoft has announced its first “moment” update for Windows 11, one of the periodic updates the vendor signalled last month that includes the Amazon Appstore, Tabbed File Explorer and Taskbar enhancements. As it noted in September with the launch of …

New Scientist

To measure the proton’s stretch, Sparveris and his team fired a beam of low-energy electrons at a liquid-hydrogen target. In their set-up, when an electron moves past a proton within the hydrogen, it produces a photon, effectively an electromagnetic field, …

Spiceworks News and Insights

A recently patched vulnerability in the Apache Commons Text library hit the headlines this week. Dubbed Text4Shell or Act4Shell, the vulnerability is eliciting some disconcerting responses from the security and tech communities, possibly due to its …