Motley Fool Money - Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard and Takes Aim at Meta Platforms

With its biggest acquisition ever, Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. Jason Moser analyzes why the move signals a direct shot at Meta Platforms and why Microsoft shareholders should be optimistic about the company's gaming aspirations. He also examines shares of Goldman Sachs and The Gap, both falling similar amounts, and why one of them represents a potential buying opportunity. Plus, Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp discuss actionable ways to stay on track with your financial goals for 2022, including a rare triple-tax advantage to help prepare for future healthcare costs.

Stocks: MSFT, ATVI, META, NVDA, GPS, GS

Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Alison Southwick, Robert Brokamp Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:46) – Telescope
(12:10) – Beginning of the universe
(32:23) – Science and the Soviet Union
(37:49) – What it’s like to be a scientist
(56:45) – Age of the universe
(59:37) – Expansion of the universe
(1:07:37) – Gravitational waves
(1:10:49) – BICEP
(1:36:05) – Nobel prize
(1:59:06) – Joe Rogan
(2:06:21) – Recognition in science
(2:14:30) – Curiosity
(2:22:18) – Losing the Nobel Prize
(2:35:13) – Galileo Galilei
(2:54:00) – Eric Weinstein
(3:12:21) – Scientific community
(3:30:02) – James Webb telescope
(3:35:01) – Panspermia
(3:38:32) – Origin of life
(3:43:59) – Aliens
(3:49:41) – Death and purpose
(3:53:53) – God
(3:59:49) – Power

CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Microsoft Bets on ‘Metaverse’ With $69B Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

The deal is Microsoft’s largest acquisition in its 46-year history.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.  

Microsoft today announced it is acquiring game publisher Activision Blizzard in a nearly $69 billion all-cash deal. The acquisition is being widely seen as a big bet to keep Microsoft competitive in the burgeoning metaverse space. On today’s episode, NLW gives the background and explores the emerging battle between the corporate and the open metaverses. 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Mysterious Deaths, Farts, Chimera and Theseus

A mysterious illness plagues New Brunswick. An internet celebrity sells NFTs and farts. The first full transplant of a pig heart into a living human prompts international legal and philosophical concerns. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Democrats’ Mock Senate

The Democratic Party’s efforts to pass just one progressive reform bill in the Senate are now verging on the comical. The hosts discuss their strategy, or lack thereof, as well as the imminence of 5G internet and its complications and the implications of the nascent feud between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 01/18

A showdown in the Senate over voting rights. There are aviation safety concerns ahead of a 5G rollout. One of the Texas synagogue hostages recounts his ordeal. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, January 18, 2022:

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Headlines From The Times - The pandemic will end. We promise.

The COVID-19 era is rough, to say the least. But let’s put it in perspective. Every pandemic ends eventually, and this one will too.

Today, assistant editor Jessica Roy with the L.A. Times’ utility journalism team walks us through a century of past pandemics — from the 1918 flu to SARS — and the different ways they resolved, and she describes what’s likely to happen in our future.

Then medical historian Frank Snowden, a professor emeritus at Yale, reaches further back to explore how pandemics have changed society and what we’ve learned from them.

More reading:

Will this pandemic ever end? Here’s what happened with the last ones

CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity

From the archives, April 2020: From the Black Death to AIDS, pandemics have shaped human history. Coronavirus will too

Time To Say Goodbye - Racism, speech, and tenure + “we Americans” on China

Greetings from the Philly planetarium!

This week, we discuss academic tenure, “disgusting” ideas, and left foreign policy.

0:00 – A troll-y tenured law prof at UPenn is back on her race-science kick—this time, arguing on Glenn Loury’s interview show that, “the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.” What to do about Amy Wax and the Amy Waxes of the world? Should her tenure be repealed, as local politicians are demanding? Who and what is tenure for? Is it about free speech? Workers’ rights?

58:30 – Does this issue intersect with tech companies’ censorship via terms of service?

1:08:00 – If you’re on China/international relations/war/basketball/tech Twitter, you’ll have seen that Chamath went full-on tankie… which relates to the debate over a recent article in The Nation: “What Should the Left Do About China?” by David Klion. The piece explores the lefty political spectrum, and features input from Andy and several friends of the pod. We dig in on the question of how complicit we are as “Americans.” In a time of (cold-)warring hegemons, what kind of dissenters should we be?

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.18.22

Alabama

  • 3rd day of Alabama legislative session gets underway today
  • Education Trust Fund and State General Budget proposals will be largest in state history
  • Mobile City council to consider a ordinance to ban camping on public property
  • Montgomery man charged in  Bama Lanes shooting is out despite raised bond amount
  • PA company to renovate a Fairfield manufacturing plant with 25 million dollars
  • Tuskegee airman dies at the age of 102, flew over 400 fighter combat missions

National

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci's insult of KS Senator results in a new bill regarding public financials
  • Dem leaders pull a bait and switch manuever on a NASA leasing bill headed to Senate
  • General Electric ends vaccine mandate and testing of employees after SCOTUS ruling
  • Gallup poll in 2021 shows 14 point swing of  Democrat to Republican Party affiliation