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Licensing Administrator reveals HDMI 2.1a is coming to CES 2022

TechSpot

On December 21, the HDMI Licensing Administrator (HDMI LA) revealed HDMI 2.1a at a pre-CES 2022 virtual press briefing. The standard comes with a single new feature called Source-Based Tone Mapping (SBTM), which helps optimize HDR signals TFT Central notes.

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Top TechRepublic Academy training courses and software offerings of 2022

Tech Republic

Get great deals on developer and Linux training courses, Microsoft Office licenses and more through these TechRepublic Academy offerings. The post Top TechRepublic Academy training courses and software offerings of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Nintendo is finally creating officially-licensed esports tournaments for ‘Super Smash Bros.’

GeekWire

tournament scene, Nintendo of America has announced a new partnership that will see the debut of the first officially-licensed Smash tournament series. We've partnered with @PandaGlobal to launch the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros. championship circuit in North America, coming 2022!

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After fan outcry, Wizards of the Coast will leave its original open license in place

GeekWire

would seek to deauthorize and replace its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice from 2000. It will also officially make the base mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons publicly available via a Creative Commons license, as mentioned on Jan. is now available under a Creative Commons license.? And we’ve listened.

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India says not to preorder Starlink until it obtains a license

The Verge

As the report notes, the Indian government says that the company needs to obtain a license to operate in the country before it starts deploying its services. Starlink plans to deploy 200,000 devices in India by 2022, with 80 percent located in rural areas (via Reuters ). DoT India (@DoT_India) November 26, 2021.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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