China wants to take over your Xbox

Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard – the video game company behind titles like “Guitar Hero,” “Candy Crush,” “World of Warcraft” and “Call of Duty” – in the largest tech acquisitions in history. Antitrust regulators are assessing whether the deal could hurt competition in the booming global video game industry, for numerous reasons including the fact…

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Non-stick pans could release millions of microplastic particles in possible 'health concern,' study says

Non-stick pots could be releasing millions of tiny plastic particles as users are cooking or washing.  In a new study, Australian researchers said that just one surface crack on a Teflon-coated pan could release around 9,100 plastic particles.  At a micro scale, Raman imaging and algorithmic modeling have identified that broken coating may lead to…

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