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The wizards at Microsoft have new hardware! They'll start unveiling at at 10 am Eastern, showing off what we hear is the next bit of Surface hardware and the next version of Windows 10. Microsoft will provide a live video stream, and we will liveblog it all. Because we love to liveblog! It's the best way to offer commentary and real-time analysis of all the announcements.

Bots are already scheduling meetings, ordering meals, and analyzing bank accounts. That means they must now suffer the indignities unethical bosses inflict on their human assistants, especially sexual harassment. As bots do more of our bidding, their algorithms are spending more time parrying flirtations, dodging personal questions, and dealing with darker forms of sexual harassment. "Lots of use cases come from that motivation," says Ilya Eckstein, CEO of Robin Labs whose bot platform helps truckers, cabbies, and other drivers find the best route and handle logistics. "People want to flirt, they want to dream about a subservient girlfriend, or even a sexual slave. It may just be more for laughs, or something deeper underneath the surface."

Much of our current understanding about Artificial Intelligence is informed by what we see in popular culture. Due to ignorance and popular cultural portrayals of A.I. and machine learning, many people fear machines that are capable of computing complex tasks. There exists the belief that artificial intelligence could operate in a way that is counter to humanity's best interests, conjuring images of The Terminator and other similar films. As we explore the boundaries of the technology with consumer-facing technology like self-driving cars, and machine-learning algorithms such as recommendation engines, the general public is learning more and more about how these things work. But will we get to a point where people accept AI? A.I. refers to software that models its programming on human behaviour, mimicking rational and logical decision making processes.

Apple CEO Tim Cook says you won't have to give up your privacy to have a great AI assistant Tim Cook on A.I.: "I Don't Think We Have to Throw Our Privacy Away" Now AI is Deliberately Trying to Scare Us, if We Aren't Already TIM COOK: Here's why assistants on phones are better than home speakers like the Echo Machine Learning Veterans Launch'Element AI' - A Montreal Based Artificial Intelligence Startup ... Stay up-to-date on the topics you care about. We'll send you an email alert whenever a news article matches your alert term. It's free, and you can add new alerts at any time.

The new update version 1.9.10 may not come with the same level of deep integration as the app for the Windows Phone, but it is helpful in making the user experience of the Android app more seamless. According to PhoneArena, update 1.9.10 comes with much needed improvements for Cortana's Android app. First and foremost, it comes with a better notification sound for reminders. In addition, reminders can now be triggered at a more accurate and timely manner -- something that Android 6.0 Marshmallow-running devices had trouble doing before. As stated in the official changelog of the Cortana for Android update, users should now notice the speedier and better loading times of the home page.

Your Google Fiber hopes have been put on hold...perhaps forever. Google announced Tuesday that it was freezing any plans to expand into eight "potential cities," with the other metropolitan areas on the list being Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma City; Portland, Oregon; Tampa, Florida; and Phoenix. Not only that, Craig Barratt, CEO of Google Access, is stepping down. SEE ALSO: 7 reasons Google's Assistant stomps Siri "We're ever grateful to these cities for their ongoing partnership and patience, and we're confident we'll have an opportunity to resume our partnership discussions once we've advanced our technologies and solutions," Barlatt said of the freeze in a blog post. Alphabet is also cutting 9 percent of the Google Fiber staff, a "person familiar with the situation" told Bloomberg.

The company's scientists think its new AI-based factotum will be the biggest thing since search. It is the day after Google's big hardware event in San Francisco, when the company formally unveiled a new phone (a jab to the iPhone) and a voice-activated speaker (a gut punch to Amazon's Echo). Word of mouth is already tracking positive; a countdown to ecstasy, in the form of upcoming rhapsodic reviews of the Pixel phone, has already begin. But in a conference room on the company's sprawling Mountain View campus, Fernando Pereira, who leads Google's projects in natural language understanding, is less excited about his company's shiny new devices than he is about what will happen when people use them. "Let me tell you a little bit about The Transition," he says.