#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)

#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)

“#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)” Microsoft‘s in-house search engine, Bing, is getting an upgrade to match the rest of the company’s products, and is now going to be called “Microsoft Bing.” The company announced the change in a blog post, and you can now find “Microsoft Bing” everywhere on the search engine….

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#Alexa, teach me how to teach you

#Alexa, teach me how to teach you

“#Alexa, teach me how to teach you” Alexa, amazon’s voice-based virtual assistance like Siri for the iPhone, and Cortana for Microsoft Windows, is a cloud-based service. When first introduced, it was in the form of ‘Amazon Echo.’ Fast forward and this voice assistant is now part of multiple devices including: music devices, robots, mobile phones, vacuum cleaners,…

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#Can algorithms violate fair housing laws?

#Can algorithms violate fair housing laws?

“#Can algorithms violate fair housing laws?” When Carmen Arroyo asked her apartment’s management company in 2016 if her son, Mikhail, could move in with her after a bad accident left him unable to care for himself, her request was denied. A tenant-screening background check had dredged up a minor (and considering his current circumstances, irrelevant)…

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#Which face masks actually work against COVID-19?

#Which face masks actually work against COVID-19?

“#Which face masks actually work against COVID-19?” Facemasks have become big drivers of e-commerce. In August, Etsy’s quarterly earnings report showed mask sales on the site reached $346 million in the second quarter of 2020. During the same period, face mask sales netted the struggling retailer Gap Inc. $130 million. And the global mask market…

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