Australia reportedly passed legislation that will force tech giants like Google and Facebook to negotiate a payment scheme with news outlets for access to their content or face arbitration, reports The Verge. “This is a significant milestone,” said Josh Frydenberg, the deputy leader of the Australian Liberal Party. The Australian…
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Originally published on RT Microsoft has been granted a patent to “revive” the dead as chatbots, recreating their personality from social postings, writings, and videos to keep their grieving loved ones company. Assuming it doesn’t totally freak them out. The living-dead chatbot would be fed all available traces of the…
A few days ago, we reported on how tech giant Microsoft recently filed an international patent for a design that uses “human body activity” to mine cryptocurrency. If that wasn’t strange enough, the patent’s publication number is WO/2020/060606, or as some seem to believe, ‘World Order 2020 666’ (WO2020666). The…
Last June, Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC filed an international patent for an odd design that uses humans to mine cryptocurrency via their physical activities, as opposed to using a computer-related mining device. The sketch is officially called the ‘Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data’: The design includes a brief abstract…
On Tuesday, a person who claims to work at Microsoft as a Windows 10 software engineer shared some dire information related to the future of personal computing: Hello all. I usually lurk here but I have been hearing very disturbing things internally and I have no where else to go……
On Monday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates appeared on The Ellen Show to hold an “informative conversation” with Ellen DeGeneres about his foundation’s “efforts to help find a vaccine and therapeutics for COVID-19.” Less than a minute into the discussion, DeGeneres brought up the TED talk Gates gave in 2015 and…