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Thousands of Google employees have signed a petition calling for the company to end its work with the Pentagon on artificial intelligence and image recognition tech that could be used for drone strikes. The letter, signed by 3,100 employees, was sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The signers were speaking out against Project Maven, …

Dear VR: It’s not me, it’s you.  We’ve had some good times, we’ve had some motion sickness, we’ve bumped into a few walls. But after giving you the benefit of the doubt for the past two years, it’s time to throw in the towel. Virtual reality may yet become a massive mainstream hit, but it’s not going to happen with …

Intel was stuck. In early 2017, the chipmaker’s new seventh-gen laptop and desktop Kaby Lake processors were barely faster than the year before. “Don’t be fooled,” I wrote.  But this year, it looks like Intel’s priciest new chips have gained some real ground. On Tuesday, the company is announcing its first six-core, 12-thread chips for laptops — one of them …

Apple may start using its own chips in Mac computers as soon as 2020. The company is in the early stages of creating its own processors for the MacBook and iMac, which currently run on Intel chips, according to unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg on Monday.   Should this happen, the Mac computer line would have a similar processor strategy to the …

In the wake of the Facebook scandal, with 50 million users potentially having their data passed along to Cambridge Analytica and used for political profiling, many have called on people to #deletefacebook.  Yep, it even has a hashtag. A new survey from the app “Blind‘ found that up to 31 percent of tech workers are planning to delete Facebook. Blind is …

When the team behind Google’s Chrome OS software and Chromebooks set out to reinvent the laptop, it quickly zeroed in on security as an area where it could bring a fresh perspective. “On Chrome OS, we were like, ‘We control all the pieces. We can do better,'” Will Drewry, a principal software engineer for Google’s devices, and one of the …

Apple has brought augmented reality to its Swift Playgrounds app designed to teach kids the basics of programming and maybe even groom them into the next generation of iPhone developers. The move means kids can incorporate Swift Playgrounds’ cartoon characters — protagonists who follow students’ programming instructions — into their Swift Playgrounds projects. The technology uses Apple’s ARKit technology. Apple …

Here’s a common practice: You open an existing document in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, make some changes to it, then save it using a different filename. That leaves the original alone, but gives you a modified copy. Just one problem: Microsoft’s Office 365 no longer works that way. Because of an incomprehensible change pushed out not long ago, any …

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