Microsoft Acquires Blizzard: Next-Gen Gaming & AI Unveiled [Audio Series]

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This week’s podcast answers these questions, and mulls the impact of the UK government clearing the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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Shownotes

This week, we’ve got the following tech news:

• Google Causing Internet to Fall into a “Spiral of Decline”
• Minecraft Becomes First Video Game to Hit 300m Sales
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Cleared by UK Govt

We’ve also got these AI tips and explainers:

• Public AI vs. Private AI vs. Personal AI: What’s the Difference?
• Photoshop Generative Expand vs. Canva Magic Expand: Which Generative AI Tool Is Better?
• ChatGPT vs. Google Translate: Which Is Better At Translation?

We finish the show with the following recommendations:

• Raspberry Pi 5 (resellers list )
• Lemokey L3 QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
• DALL-E 3

Christian Cawley and Gavin Phillips host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter: @thegadgetmonkey and @gavinspavin , with your suggestions for future topics. Oh, and don’t forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts !

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This week’s podcast answers these questions, and mulls the impact of the UK government clearing the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

You can subscribe to the Really Useful Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , Amazon Music and Audible , Player FM , or copy the RSS feed into your podcast player.

Shownotes

This week, we’ve got the following tech news:

• Google Causing Internet to Fall into a “Spiral of Decline”
• Minecraft Becomes First Video Game to Hit 300m Sales
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Cleared by UK Govt

We’ve also got these AI tips and explainers:

• Public AI vs. Private AI vs. Personal AI: What’s the Difference?
• Photoshop Generative Expand vs. Canva Magic Expand: Which Generative AI Tool Is Better?
• ChatGPT vs. Google Translate: Which Is Better At Translation?

We finish the show with the following recommendations:

• Raspberry Pi 5 (resellers list )
• Lemokey L3 QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
• DALL-E 3

Christian Cawley and Gavin Phillips host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter: @thegadgetmonkey and @gavinspavin , with your suggestions for future topics. Oh, and don’t forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts !

SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT

This week’s podcast answers these questions, and mulls the impact of the UK government clearing the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

You can subscribe to the Really Useful Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , Amazon Music and Audible , Player FM , or copy the RSS feed into your podcast player.

Shownotes

This week, we’ve got the following tech news:

• Google Causing Internet to Fall into a “Spiral of Decline”
• Minecraft Becomes First Video Game to Hit 300m Sales
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Cleared by UK Govt

We’ve also got these AI tips and explainers:

• Public AI vs. Private AI vs. Personal AI: What’s the Difference?
• Photoshop Generative Expand vs. Canva Magic Expand: Which Generative AI Tool Is Better?
• ChatGPT vs. Google Translate: Which Is Better At Translation?

We finish the show with the following recommendations:

• Raspberry Pi 5 (resellers list )
• Lemokey L3 QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
• DALL-E 3

Christian Cawley and Gavin Phillips host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter: @thegadgetmonkey and @gavinspavin , with your suggestions for future topics. Oh, and don’t forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts !

SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT

This week’s podcast answers these questions, and mulls the impact of the UK government clearing the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

You can subscribe to the Really Useful Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , Amazon Music and Audible , Player FM , or copy the RSS feed into your podcast player.

Shownotes

This week, we’ve got the following tech news:

• Google Causing Internet to Fall into a “Spiral of Decline”
• Minecraft Becomes First Video Game to Hit 300m Sales
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Cleared by UK Govt

We’ve also got these AI tips and explainers:

• Public AI vs. Private AI vs. Personal AI: What’s the Difference?
• Photoshop Generative Expand vs. Canva Magic Expand: Which Generative AI Tool Is Better?
• ChatGPT vs. Google Translate: Which Is Better At Translation?

We finish the show with the following recommendations:

• Raspberry Pi 5 (resellers list )
• Lemokey L3 QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
• DALL-E 3

Christian Cawley and Gavin Phillips host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter: @thegadgetmonkey and @gavinspavin , with your suggestions for future topics. Oh, and don’t forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts !

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