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Microsoft CEO on crazy Tay AI: It was not up to the mark

“Back to the drawing board.” That’s how Chief Executive Satya Nadella addressed Microsoft’s recent gaffes with Tay, its artificial-intelligence teenage chatbot. Microsoft took the chatbot offline last week after it spewed racist and sexist remarks on Twitter. However, Tay managed to sneak back online for a couple hours Wednesday and continue her nonsensical rant before being grounded again. A Microsoft …

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Using Samsung Pay makes me feel like a rock star

“Sorry, ma’am, you can’t use NFC payments over 30 quid.” That from the pimply young waiter at a London restaurant too hip for its own good. I just smiled, placed the Samsung Galaxy S7 I was testing over the handheld payment card portal, and said “Let’s see what happens.” What happened was that a little blue check-mark animated out of …

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Acer’s new Chromebook 14 promises 14 hours of battery life

Mid-size screen, but with a big battery: That’s what Acer is offering with the newest in its long line of Chromebooks, the Chromebook 14. The promise of the Chromebook and Google’s Chrome OS has always been a low-cost, simple computing system that covers the basics. Traditionally that’s meant smaller screens and low-end processors. Acer has bucked that trend over the …

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Apple’s iPad goes to bat for Major League Baseball

The iPad is getting called up to the big leagues. Apple’s tablet will be in every Major League Baseball dugout this year as part of a multiyear deal between the tech titan and the league, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro devices will be on hand for coaches looking to analyze players’ performance stats from current …

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Snapchat adds a bunch of features to help you, you know, chat

Snapchat is making its chat features snappier. The maker of the popular app said on Tuesday it updated its disappearing photo and video service to give people more ways to talk and respond to each other within the same conversation. Among the choices: voice, video and text. Oh yeah, and stickers. Snapchat introduced more than a hundred stickers, like emoji …

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Sony RX10 III camera gives enthusiasts the zoom lens they craved

Now playing: Watch this: Sony’s Cyber-shot RX10 III ups the zoom-lens ante for… 1:33 Sony’s RX-series cameras have long been some of our favorite advanced compacts, delivering high quality and good performance in a small size with features that rival or surpass the competition — with perhaps one exception: the Cyber-shot RX10. When it first launched in October 2013, the …

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