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Goodbye Internet Explorer. You won't be missed (but your legacy will be remembered)

After 27 years, Microsoft has finally bid farewell to the web browser Internet Explorer, and will redirect Explorer users to the latest version of its Edge browser.

The Conversation

TOOHEY'S NEWS PODCAST: Jayden Brailey reveals comeback plans

Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, or wherever you like to listen.

Newcastle Herald

Report: Nearly 400 crashes by ‘self-driving’ cars in the US

Data collected by a US regulatory agency will allow for greater transparency on safety of semiautonomous vehicles

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10 Communication Services Stocks Whale Activity In Today's Session

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Benzinga

Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher's view

LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sentient. He’s been put on leave after publishing his conversations with LaMDA.

The Conversation

RIP Internet Explorer, the early web’s favorite bad browser

Windows is officially letting its iconic (and notorious) web browser go to the great Recycle Bin in the sky.

Input

Sheryl Sandberg’s Wedding Expenses Are the Least of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Problems

The company also faces antitrust scrutiny, questions about potential abuses of power, and an advertising business under attack from competitors and regulators.

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TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet

A researcher says Google has created an AI being with smarts and soul, but my own attempt reveals the truth behind those claims. Plus, the latest crypto crash

The Guardian - UK

Google claim that it bans gun ads is BS

Analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers

Salon

Technology: Google Maps rolls out estimated toll charges for a journey in India

Google has rolled out a new Google Maps feature that estimates how much one has to pay in tolls while navigating through a certain route. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge

Company says decision to disable desktop app comes as web developers less likely to make sites compatible with browser, which first graced computers in 1995

The Guardian - AU

Analyst Recommends Buying Apple, Microsoft And Google Stock, Citing This Investment Advice From Warren Buffett

The Nasdaq has led the broader markets lower since the start of the year as inflation concerns ripple through technology names. However, mega cap tech stocks have shown relative strength and one analyst sees opportunity in a few of the market giants.

Benzinga

Google says its AI chatbot system LaMDA is not sentient. But how do they know?

Current AI systems aren't sentient, but their successors may be. When the time comes, how will we know?

ABC News

YouTube comments not showing: Thousands of users perplexed at major bug on Google site

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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The Guardian - UK

Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune

Consumers need transparency about how such systems are used, says professor of linguistics Emily M Bender

Daily Mirror

Google to give £98million to female employees who were paid less than men for years

Holly Pease, a former Google manager, is one of the plaintiffs and hopes the tech giant's massive settlement will pave the way forward for equal pay among workers regardless of gender

The Guardian - UK

Canada and Denmark end decades-long dispute over barren rock in Arctic

Hans Island ‘whisky war’ – described by some as a ‘pseudo-confrontation’ – ends after formal division agreed

The Conversation

We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here's what it revealed about sentience

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Irish Mirror

OnePlus Nord 2T review: one of the most convincing €400 smartphones you can buy

OnePlus Nord 2T adds 80W superfast charging and an upgraded processor for a lower starting price than its predecessor

The Guardian - AU

Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines

We need more safeguards in place to prevent us from mistaking machines for humans

Pedestrian.tv

A Google Engineer Says His AI Has Become Sentient, Can Feel Joy And Even Fears ‘Being Turned Off’

A Google engineer was put on leave for violating confidentiality after he published a conversation with a Google AI he claimed was sentient.

The Conversation

A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?

Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: it has become sentient.

The National (Scotland)

Shona Craven: Is it time for robots to have fundamental rights?

WHAT makes you a person? Is it your brain? Your whole body? Or is it the thoughts in your head and the feelings in your heart?

Input

Relax, Google’s LaMDA chatbot is nowhere near sentient

Just because you designed a good NPC doesn't make it HAL 9000.

Benzinga

Alphabet Whale Trades For June 13

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Alphabet. Looking at options history for Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) we detected 420 strange trades.

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