Microsoft to sell HoloLens to US Army
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Microsoft Corp announced it has signed an agreement to sell US Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and supported by the company’s Azure cloud computing services. A
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Apple will no longer make Siri’s voice female by default
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Apple’s Siri will stop defaulting to a female-sounding voice. The company announced that it is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default “female voice” selection
Block unwanted comments on Facebook News Feed
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Facebook launched tools letting users customize their feed and decide who can comment on their public posts. The company will also offer a Feed Filter Bar that can be used
Google supporting European Media Fund
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Google is contributing Euro 25 million to the newly set up European Media and Information Fund to fight misinformation and support fact-checking, the company announced in a blog post. Google
The NFT boom continues
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The demand for NFTs – blockchain registration of ownership – is continuing to surge and the NFT market is showing no signs of slowing down. Year-to-date, within less than three
Digital currency comes to Visa’s settlement platform
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Visa Inc announced on Monday that has launched the pilot program with payment and crypto platform Crypto.com, allowing the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its
Microsoft in talks to buy chat platform Discord
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Microsoft Corp. is reportedly in “exclusive” talks to acquire messaging platform Discord Inc. for more than $10 billion. Both Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal reported that the tech giant is
This is Silicon Valley’s most prized startup
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Dromineer is a tiny village in the heart of Ireland with less than 150 inhabitants. In this picturesque place with admittedly not many things to do, Patrick and John Collison
Big tech US hearing without highlights
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The CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter appeared before the US Congress in a hyped hearing about their platforms’ responsibilities for the mob breaking in to the Capitol on Jan
Facebook announcing action against Chinese hackers
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Facebook announced it is acting to stop hackers in China known in the security industry as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye from distributing malware and hack people’s accounts across the