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Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10
DeepMind says it's given AI an imagination. Let's take a closer look at that
Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection – ICO
Mozilla dev and Curl inventor Daniel Stenberg denied travel to USA
UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism
We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?
UK to block Kodi pirates in real-time: Saturday kick-off
Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto
Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet
Cassini sends back best ring-shots yet en route to self-destruct dive
Google launches root certificate authority
Meet 'Moz://a', AKA Mozilla after it picked a new logo
Why the UK is unlikely to get an adequacy determination post Brexit
TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next
What's the first emotion you'd give an AI that might kill you? Yes, fear
Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview
British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen
The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers
Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'
Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister
Non-doms pay 10 times more in income tax than average taxpayer group
Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party
Blink and you missed it: Asteroid came within 90,000 km, only one sky-watcher saw it
Jovial NASA says Juno flyby a success
WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook
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Bee queens are Notch-blocking their minions, say boffins
Next big thing after containers? Amazon CTO talks up serverless computing
Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments
UEFA's Euro 2016 app is airing football fans’ privates in public
Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer
Hooves in spaaace: Goat Simulator goes galactic
Mercury to transit Sun: Viewer discretion advised
Why should you care about Google's AI winning a board game?
Wikipedia to build and give away speech synthesis code
I this really necessary with the browsers now implementing Text To Speech that uses the native voices on the OS?
See:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/firefox-and-the-web-speech-api/
Demo http://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/ [Firefox]
BTW the IVONA voices are so real - I could listen to them all day.
Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price
Bigger than Higgs? Boffins see hints of bulbous new Boson
Predictable: How AV flaw hit Microsoft's Windows defences
Typo in case-sensitive variable name cooked Google's cloud
All hail Firefox Dev Edition 44 – animations, memory and all
Downloads for Windows 10 November big-bang build axed by Microsoft
Muggins here
used MCT last week and managed to install the upgrade.
It fouled up on reinstalling my laptop's bluetooth driver and
that in turn broke the Send_To menu (all of it) and so I had to
get my hands dirty fixing it. I guess feedback from such not so trivial
incidents made MS pull the techie solution so they didn't have to cope
with the flack,