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New documents revealed by the ACLU and shared with Gizmodo show the lengths FBI and Pentagon officials went to develop “truly unconstrained” facial recognition capable of being deployed in public street cameras, mobile drones, and cops’ body cameras.

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The easiest way to differentiate a Windows laptop from an Apple one is to either check the logo on the lid, or find the collection of Intel, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia stickers near the keyboard: the telltale branding of the PC world.

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side-by-side of Bill Gates, Jennifer Gates, and her husband Nayel Nassar
Bill Gates is a grandfather after the oldest of his children, 26-year-old Jennifer Gates, announced she has welcomed a child of her own.
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Microsoft secretly rolled out a new feature into its Bing AI preview that lets users emulate certain famous people. It does a, let’s just say, “interesting” job at emulating some celebrities’ speech patterns. We also took a look at what it’s allowed to say on behalf of some extremely controversial or hateful figures.

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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri, Cortana and Alexa 'just don't work.'
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After a decade in journalism, Jareen Imam pivoted to tech. Even though layoffs are shaking up the industry right now, she would encourage others to follow in her footsteps.
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Nothing quite screams “foremost authority on generative article intelligence” like a 99 year-old-German man who nearly ushered in a global nuclear war over a game of geopolitical chicken.

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Illustration of Open AI's ChatGPT logo and Microsoft Bing logo
Insider asked Bing's personalities the same five questions and compared their answers.