Microsoft slams UK move blocking Activision takeover as ‘bad day for Britain’
Microsoft’s vice chair and president has slammed the UK competition watchdog’s decision to block the software company’s 68.7 billion dollar (£55 billion) takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard, calling it a “bad day for Britain”. Brad
AI and dyslexia are a ‘powerful combination’, says Sir Richard Branson
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and dyslexia are a “powerful combination”, Sir Richard Branson has said as part of a campaign to promote the potential of dyslexic people in the workplace. The 72-year-old businessman has joined forces with
Roman military camps identified in Arabian desert in ‘spectacular’ find
Archaeologists have used satellite images to make a “spectacular” find of Roman military camps in the Arabian desert. University of Oxford researchers identified three new Roman fortified camps – in the typical playing card shape –
Skoda develops a car grille that can tell pedestrians when to safely cross a road
Car grilles have been getting increasingly bolder in recent years – from BMW’s highly-controversial ‘nostrils’ to various grilles that are able to illuminate. What a grille has never done before is display warning messages to pedestrians.
UK watchdog blocks Microsoft’s £55bn takeover of Call Of Duty firm Activision
Microsoft’s 68.7 billion dollar (£55 billion) takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the UK competition watchdog, in a potentially fatal blow to one of the technology industry’s biggest ever deals. The Competition
Capita reveals evidence of data breach in cyber attack
Outsourcing firm and government contractor Capita said customer, supplier or colleague data may have been accessed by hackers in a recent cyber attack on the firm. The group – a major contractor for local authorities –
