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An employee tests a version of Call of Duty on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at Activision Blizzard, Infinity Ward Division, in Woodland Hills, Calif. Call of Duty has been one of the best-selling video games for the past decade-plus, and is at the heart of the developing antitrust fight over whether Microsoft will be able to acquire Activision Blizzard. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

EU investigates Microsoft’s deal to buy Activision Blizzard

By Matt O'Brien and Raf Casert

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. funded Chinese research

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Photo via AP) **FILE**

‘We are all under stress’: Microsoft president issues dire assessment of world affairs

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Microsoft to retire support for Internet Explorer

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Bill Gates attends the TIME100 Gala celebrating the 100 most influential people in the world at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Bill Gates wants $1 billion annually to prevent next pandemic

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

IBM closing down Russian business, starts laying off workers

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Doja Cat appears at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022, from left, Drake appears at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 1, 2019, and Ari Lennox appears at the 2021 Soul Train Awards in New York on Nov. 20, 2021. Doja Cat scored six nominations for the BET Awards. Drake and Lennox are the second-most nominated acts, scoring four nods each. The BET Awards will be held on June 26 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Doja Cat, Drake, Ari Lennox lead BET Awards nominations

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Philanthropist and Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates gestures as he speaks to the audience during the Global Fund to Fight AIDS event at the Lyon's congress hall, central France. Despite damaging allegations suggesting Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him, don't expect changes to his roles at the two iconic institutions he co-founded, Microsoft and his namesake philanthropic foundation, raising accountability concerns from critics. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he has COVID

Associated Press

In this Nov. 29, 2019, file photo, a metal head made of motor parts symbolizes artificial intelligence, or AI, at the Essen Motor Show for tuning and motorsports in Essen, Germany. Microsoft chief scientific officer Eric Horvitz warned lawmakers on Tuesday that America's application of artificial intelligence is not living up to its full potential. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Tech experts warn lawmakers that the U.S. isn’t up to par on artificial intelligence

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A local man sits in front of an apartment building damaged from heavy fighting as he waits for the kettle to boil in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live Updates | Explosions in Ukrainian city of Kherson

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A top California state civil rights lawyer who was pursuing a discrimination case against the video game giant has been fired, and her colleague has quit in protest. Janette Wipper was chief counsel for the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing but Wednesday, April 13, 2022, was her last day. Her attorney says another department attorney involved in the case, Melanie Proctor, quit Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Game developer vital to Microsoft app store business facing new federal scrutiny

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A damaged by shelling car is seen in a yard in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - A woman walks with a power plant in the background, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. Ukrainian officials say Russian military hackers tried to knock out power to millions of Ukrainians last week in a long-planned attack but were foiled. However, the Ukrainians say the Russian hackers succeeded in penetrating and disrupting the industrial control system of one power station. The Ukrainians says the defenders were able to thwart any power loss. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Ukraine says potent Russian hack against power grid thwarted

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

Microsoft disrupts Russian cyberattackers targeting Ukraine, U.S., Europe

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Spotify suspending service in Russia

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google to acquire cybersecurity firm Mandiant for estimated $5.4 billion

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A person enters the Microsoft Experience Center in the borough of Manhattan in New York City on Friday, January 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Microsoft outlines vision for app store, aiming to neutralize regulatory scrutiny

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Two Republican congressmen are demanding that FBI Director Christopher Wray provide details on efforts to rein in the bureau's use of warrants to spy on Americans that are approved by a secretive federal court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP lawmakers demand FBI detail efforts to rein in secret surveillance warrants

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013 the during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, for $68.7 billion to gain access to blockbuster games including Call of Duty and Candy Crush. The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide it building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks with journalists as he arrives for a round table meeting of the Eastern Partnership at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Ukraine said Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites and alleged that Russia is engaged in an increasing &quot;hybrid war&quot; against its neighbor. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Ukraine says Russia behind cyberattack in ‘hybrid war’ move

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press