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Microsoft Announces Upcoming Windows-Powered Handheld Xbox Device: the 'ROG Xbox Ally'
Nintendo's new Switch 2 console sold a record 3 million units after its launch Thursday. But then today Microsoft announced their own upcoming handheld gaming device that's Xbox-branded (and Windows-powered).
Working with ASUS' ROG division, they build a device that weighs more than the Nintendo S...
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After 'AI-First' Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits 'I Did Not Expect the Blowback'
Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn "shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first'," remembers the Financial Times.
"I did not expect the amount of blowback," he admits....
He attributes this anger to a general "anxiety" about technology replacing...
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How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...
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Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China's WeChat App
An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times:
Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a Russian intelligence document obtained by...
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ACLU Accuses California Local Government's Drones of 'Runaway Spying Operation'
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a "warrantless drone surveillance program" that's "trampling residents' right to privacy":
Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a "runaway spying operation"... according to...
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