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Global Microsoft outage brings down Office 365, Outlook and Teams

NewsColony29 September 2020

by NewsColony29 September 2020035

Microsoft has said it is investigating an outage that brought down Microsoft’s cloud-based office services including the meetings software, Teams, worldwide. Microsoft reported issues with...

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Give up Google, don’t hit ‘accept all’: how to fight for your privacy

NewsColony28 September 2020

by NewsColony28 September 2020025

“If you’re reading this book, you probably already know your personal data is being collected, stored and analysed,” Carissa Véliz begins, in Privacy Is Power....

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Users report issues as Covid-19 app launches in England and Wales

NewsColony24 September 2020

by NewsColony24 September 2020023

The launch of the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales has exposed problems with the programme, some of which were known about in advance,...

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Game changer: Microsoft buys Elder Scrolls company ZeniMax for $7.5bn

NewsColony21 September 2020

by NewsColony21 September 2020018

Microsoft is acquiring ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, publisher of the best-selling video game franchises The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Doom. The...

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Apple event 2020: iPhone giant reveals Apple Watch 6, with new iPads expected – live updates

NewsColony15 September 2020

by NewsColony15 September 2020028

And with that, we’re on to the long-awaited services bundle: Apple One. It comes in a bunch of tiers: the first, for $15, will include...

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A human wrote this article. You shouldn’t be scared of GPT-3 | Albert Fox Cahn

NewsColony12 September 2020

by NewsColony12 September 2020019

The headline that appeared in this opinion page on Tuesday was striking, “A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?” The claim...

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How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide

NewsColony11 September 2020

by NewsColony11 September 2020045

This summer, OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company co-founded by Elon Musk, debuted GPT-3, a powerful new language generator that can produce human-like text....

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Apple One services bundle could be launched within days

NewsColony11 September 2020

by NewsColony11 September 2020021

Apple is preparing a new bundle of all its subscription products called Apple One, according to a leak in the source code of one of...

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Fortnite could face year-long Apple ban, says Epic Games

NewsColony9 September 2020

by NewsColony9 September 2020019

Fortnite could be banned from iPhones and other Apple devices for a year, the game’s developer, Epic Games, has revealed, as the court battle between...

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Microsoft’s ‘smallest ever’ Xbox Series S to sell at budget £249

NewsColony8 September 2020

by NewsColony8 September 2020031

Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox will come in two flavours, the company confirmed today, with the stripped-back Xbox Series S joining the previously announced Xbox Series X...