Tom Warren

Happy Pi Day, or should I say happy geek holiday. Everyone loves the mathematical constant, but before you go eating 3.14 slices of cake to celebrate, consider holding off for Tau Day instead. You see Pi might actually be terrible as a constant, and using Tau instead is easier and more practical. Read former Verge Senior Reporter Chaim Gartenberg’s deep dive on Tau right here.

Microsoft is now running full-page ads in the Financial Times and the Daily Mail to push for its Activision Blizzard deal to be approved by UK regulators. It comes just as the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) considers Sony’s concerns over Call of Duty (CoD) ahead of a decision on the $68.7 billion deal. The 150 million more CoD players refers to the deals Microsoft signed with Nintendo and Nvidia recently.