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A few days ago, Microsoft announced their intentions to acquire Activision Blizzard. This has raised many questions and some concerns, namely how Microsoft will approach titles that are available on other consoles like the Nintendo Switch or Sony’s PlayStation.

There is cause for some concern because when Microsoft acquired Bethesda, the company suggested that not all games would necessarily be available for non-Xbox/PC devices, such as the upcoming Elder Scrolls 6 which was reported to be an Xbox exclusive.

Had good calls this week with leaders at Sony. I confirmed our intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. Sony is an important part of our industry, and we value our relationship.

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) January 20, 2022

However, there is some good news for Call of Duty gamers because according to Microsoft’s Phil Spencer, he tweeted that Microsoft plans to continue making the game available on the PlayStation console and that Microsoft will honor all existing agreements that Activision might have had prior to the acquisition.

This makes sense because games like Call of Duty have huge player bases on both Xbox and PlayStation, so it doesn’t make sense for Microsoft to alienate an entire market just to make it an Xbox exclusive.

We’re not sure if they plan to do this for the foreseeable future or just for more immediate titles, but for now, PlayStation Call of Duty players can rest assured that they will be able to keep enjoying the game.

Don’t Worry, Call Of Duty For The PlayStation Isn’t Going Anywhere

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She told BuzzFeed News it was a joke, adding that she’s “too short to see anyone’s yarmulke.”

Instagram is taking new steps to make “potentially harmful” content less visible in its app. The company says that the algorithm powering the way posts are ordered in users’ feeds and in Stories will now de-prioritize content that “may contain bullying, hate speech or may incite violence.”

While Instagram’s rules already prohibit much of this type of content, the change could affect borderline posts, or content that hasn’t yet reached the app’s moderators. “To understand if something may break our rules, we’ll look at things like if a caption is similar to a caption that previously broke our rules,” the company explains in an update.

Up until now, Instagram has tried to hide potentially objectionable content from public-facing parts of the app, like Explore, but hasn’t changed how it appears to users who follow the accounts posting this type of content. The latest change means that posts deemed “similar” to those that have been previously removed will be much less visible even to followers. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that “potentially harmful” posts could still be eventually removed if the post breaks its community guidelines.

The update follows a similar change in 2020, when Instagram began down-ranking accounts that shared misinformation that was debunked by fact checkers. Unlike that change, however, Instagram says that the latest policy will only affect individual posts and “not accounts overall.”

Additionally, Instagram says it will now factor in each individual user’s reporting history into how it orders their feeds. “If our systems predict you’re likely to report a post based on your history of reporting content, we will show the post lower in your Feed,” Instagram says.

It turns out the Tuskens are a complicated people. The native Tatooinians typified as evil savages in the early Star Wars films have been revealed to be so much more, thanks to TV series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. While it’s both fantastic and necessary to see cultural depth given to an indigenous…

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Both Windows and macOS allow users to type using their voice. It’s essentially a speech-to-text feature where instead of typing on a keyboard, you just say out what you want written as text and it will attempt to convert it for you.

For the most part, it works if you’re speaking and using “regular” words, but what about certain names or words that aren’t necessarily readily identifiable? For example, what if you’re speaking out a foreign name and Windows doesn’t understand it? Or what if you need to type a mix of letters and numbers?

The good news is that according to Microsoft, they are working on an update to Windows 11 that will allow users to quite literally type using their voice. Basically instead of saying out words and numbers, you will speak out the individual alphabets and numbers to “type” them into your computer.

So for example if you needed to spell out a website URL, an address, or an email address, instead of hoping that Windows will understand what you’re trying to say, you can spell it out letter by letter, number by number, and it will input it into the computer for you. Right now, the feature is only available to users in the Dev channel, so it might be a while before it will be available to all users.

Upcoming Windows 11 Update Lets You Type With Your Voice

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