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Tom Warren

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    CMA softens concerns over Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal.

    The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally concluded that Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard deal “will not result in a substantial lessening of competition in console gaming services because the cost to Microsoft of withholding Call of Duty from PlayStation would outweigh any gains from taking such action.” The CMA still has concerns around the cloud gaming market, but a key issue over Call of Duty has now been addressed.

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    Tom Warren
    Another day and another giant YouTube channel hacked.

    It feels like barely a week goes by without a prominent YouTube channel getting hacked to promote crypto scams. This time it’s Linus Tech Tips, one of the biggest tech YouTube accounts — with 15.3 million subscribers. The channel has been taken over by scammers live streaming crypto scam videos. These breaches have been happening for well over a year, and it’s beyond time YouTube helped protect creators from falling victims to this.

    The Linus Tech Tips channel has been taken over by scammers.
    The Linus Tech Tips channel has been taken over by scammers.
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    Tom Warren
    Look at this face.

    Just look at it. The actor behind Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II transforms into a digital realtime version with stunning facial animations.

    It’s all part of Epic Games’ MetaHumans work, which takes real-world scans of people and runs the digital version in real time on top PC hardware with RTX graphics cards. Epic’s hyperrealistic MetaHumans will even be able to be animated using an iPhone soon, and the full performance capture is even more impressive.