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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Google building a new AR headset.\nPolicy editor Russell Brandom joins the show to discuss the battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G and the antitrust bills in Congress this week.\nFurther reading:\n\nThe US\u2019s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined\n\nMicrosoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion\n\nRead Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick\u2019s email to employees about the Microsoft acquisition\n\nRead Microsoft Gaming CEO\u2019s email to staff about the Activision Blizzard acquisition\n\nMicrosoft\u2019s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers\n\nMicrosoft\u2019s Activision acquisition would instantly make it a force in mobile gaming\n\nA guide to Microsoft\u2019s Xbox game studios empire\n\nIs Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?\n\nSony expects Microsoft to \u2018continue to ensure\u2019 Activision games stay multiplatform\n\nGoogle is building an AR headset\n\nAT&T and Verizon are limiting C-band 5G expansion around airports even more\n\nAT&T begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas\n\nVerizon\u2019s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start\n\nApple and Google split with startups over antitrust bill\n\nTim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report\n\nLawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached\n\nUS competition enforcers launch overhaul of merger approval process\n\nDemocrats unveil bill to ban online \u2018surveillance advertising\u2019\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices