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Apple appears to have discriminated between the OLED iPad Pro models when it comes to the RAM. The company announced the new OLED iPad Pro models with major changes. While the iPad Air comes with decent upgrades and a new 12.9-inch variant, the iPad Pro takes the cake with an extremely thin design and powerful internals.

The M4 announcement during Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event painted a rosy picture for potential buyers, and they would have likely believed that the latest iPad Pro models would have access to four performance and six efficiency cores. Unfortunately, that is not the case here because Apple cleverly hid the finer details from its audience, and to actually get the chipset with the 10-core CPU, you have to avoid the 256GB or 512GB models altogether. Hearing this is disappointing because the base model does not come cheap and is currently listed for pre-order at $999.

Apple has plans to upgrade the iPad Pro, iPad Air, and MacBook Air models in the coming months. We have previously heard that the company is potentially slated to launch the new devices in March or April. However, no exact details were mentioned in prior reports. It is now being reported that Apple plans to launch the OLED iPad Pro, iPad Air 6, and M3 MacBook Air models by the end of March, as production is underway.

A former Krafton employee is suing the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds maker for wrongful termination after she reported an alleged sexual assault by former Krafton head of strategy and business Kevin Kimball.

Activision Blizzard has updated Call of Duty's code of conduct to combat player harassment and provided more insight into its voice moderation system.

Apple failed to introduce new iPad upgrades last year, which resulted in a 10 percent slump in overall revenue from the category. The company is expected to release upgrades throughout this year, ranging from OLED iPad Pro models to the iPad mini 7. While the entry-level iPad and iPad mini upgrade are scheduled for the second half of this year, Apple plans to launch the OLED iPad Pro and iPad Air 6 models in the Spring. A new report from Bloomberg details the launch of the iPad Pro and iPad Air models.

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A former Activision Blizzard executive is suing the company for age discrimination, according to lawsuit filed on Jan. 2. James Reid Venable, a 57-year-old former senior director of business operations, said Activision Blizzard “retaliated and discriminated” against him after he made a discrimination complaint to the company’s human resources department — specifically, Venable believes he was laid off for being old and white.

Activision-Blizzard has been the centre of a lot of controversy over these past few years. After a lawsuit went public, detailing «numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation» and a «frat boy» culture, plus claims from former CEO Bobby Kotick that the whole thing was just an «aggressive labour movement,»  the company finally settled last year.

An unnamed former Activision executive is taking the Call of Duty publisher to court in California, accusing the company of age discrimination and violating the state's whistleblower protection law. Said executive is a 57-year-old who worked at the company from 2014; apparently, he and six other men aged 47 or older were cut from a team of 200, as part of broader Activision Blizzard restructuring efforts last August.

Publisher Activision Blizzard has been accused of discriminating against “old white guys,” by a former executive.

A former Activision executive has sued the publisher in California state court accusing the company of age discrimination and violating the state's whistleblower protection law, as reported by Law360.

California’s Civil Rights Department reached a settlement with Activision Blizzard late last week two years after the state regulator brought a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, pay inequities and a culture of sexual harassment at the video game company.

Activision Blizzard will pay over $50 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit filed by the state of California alleging that the video games giant discriminated against women by offering them lower pay and fewer promotion opportunities.

Following allegations of workplace discrimination at Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant has agreed to pay just under $55 million. The settlement with the California Civil Rights Department is still subject to court approval.

California’s Civil Rights Department has reached a settlement with Activision Blizzard that will see the company pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to women for unfair pay and treatment — but, as part of the settlement, the CRD has dismissed its own allegations of a “frat boy” culture of widespread and systemic sexual harassment at the company.

Activision Blizzard will pay $54 million to settle a gender discrimination and harassment lawsuit brought against the company in 2021. 

Activision Blizzard King is looking to settle its lawsuit under the California Civil Rights Department.

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay over £44 million to settle a 2021 sex discrimination lawsuit.

Activision Blizzard will settle allegations that it discriminated against female employees with a payout of over $50 million. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, this will end its lawsuit with the California Civil Rights Department (formally called the Department of Fair Employment and Housing), which launched in 2021.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Activision Blizzard will pay a $54 million settlement to end a 2021 sex discrimination lawsuit.

If you ever want to toss a discourse grenade into a room and watch the sparks fly, bring up skill-based matchmaking. How much or little developers should factor player skill into who you're permitted to play against in multiplayer games is an evergreen debate of our hobby, but it's not everyday that an expert on the topic chimes in.