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Rochelle Travers and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard gets approval - Tech and Science Daily podcast

Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard merger looks set to go through - after UK regulators gave clearance to gaming's biggest ever takeover deal.

The Competition and Markets Authority has confirmed that the most recent revised deal addressed its concerns. It brings to an end a near two-year fight by Microsoft to secure the takeover.

One of Europe’s largest package holiday operators has been caught up in a global ‘fake parts’ scandal. Tui, is the latest airline to be impacted due to a London-based company that allegedly supplied jet-engine parts using forged paperwork.

Google goes ‘passwordless by default’. The move is part of a broader consensus among the tech industry to ditch passwords and switch to a safer and more efficient format to verify a person’s identity.

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Study finds more than 40% of Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk since 1997, new Royal Mint coins celebrate the King’s passion for nature, and the UK gets an innovative research campus to help solve global problems.

Plus, scientists want to use giant lasers to build roads on the Moon, and is this the end of the Bigfoot myth once and for all?

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