Microsoft intends to launch a new app store with games for smartphones based on Android and iOS. This will happen next year if regulators approve a deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. As Xbox head Phil Spencer said at the Game Developers Conference, this will allow Xbox and content to be offered both from Microsoft itself and from partners at any devices.

“We want to be able to offer Xbox and content from both us and our third party partners on any screen anyone wants to play.‘ Spencer explained. He clarified that at the moment this cannot be done on mobile devices, but the company wants to “build a world” in which “such devices will be open.”

Apparently, we are talking about new rules by which Apple and Google should allow the use of third-party app stores on their mobile platforms.

As for the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, this is opposed by Sony. If the deal does go through, it would allow Xbox developers to increase competition on the “biggest platform people play on,” smartphones, of course. After all, Microsoft plans to fill the lack of mobile games with Activision Blizzard projects.

Spencer has not yet announced the launch date of the store, so it remains to be seen.

Supercars are a very expensive purchase, and the cost is not a one-time cost, as the following story confirms.

Facebook user Jerry Mos recounted how simply replacing sticky buttons on an unknown model Ferrari cost him nearly $10,000.

“I spent $15,000 to replace ceramic wheel bearings, $4,000 to fix drop-out lights, and so on and so forth,” says Jerry Mos. Each maintenance trip cost $1,500.

Two weeks after Jerry Mos bought a 70-year-old Corvette Stingray Convertible with the 3LT package, he decided to sell Ferrari because he couldn’t “foresee what would go wrong next time.”

According to Carscoops, sticky buttons are a fairly common problem for this brand.

We have already heard that this year Intel may release a Raptor Lake Refresh processor for the desktop segment. According to recent data, their launch will take place in August.

There is no exact data on what improvements await us with the advent of these CPUs, but earlier Intel’s Refresh models differed from the usual ones only by slightly increased frequencies.

It’s worth noting that there may not be a mobile Raptor Lake Refresh, as Intel has said several times that it will release Meteor Lake processors later this year. They, according to a number of rumors, will not be available in the desktop segment, but in the mobile segment they should completely replace the current generation.

Shared insider @wxnod previously posted photos of various Nvidia cards, including the RTX 4090 before it was announced.