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Facebook bans white nationalist and separatist content

Facebook on Wednesday said it’s banning white nationalist and white separatist content from its platform following backlash from civil rights groups and black history scholars. “It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services,” Facebook said in a blog post. The social network had already barred “hateful treatment of people based …

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Microsoft appears to dump Cortana in Skype for Amazon’s Alexa

As of April 30, the Cortana bot will no longer be a part of Skype.  Skype users have reported seeing notifications saying the Cortana bot, the chatbot version of Microsoft’s voice assistant, will no longer be available on the video app. Instead, Microsoft is advertising a new Amazon Alexa voice assistant integration, according to OnMSFT.  “We are constantly evaluating and testing our products …

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