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Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”’ — Recode

Microsoft President Brad Smith laid out a frightening scenario in which facial recognition technology, if left unchecked, could totally change the way we live,...

Tech platforms suspend Gab in wake of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting — Fortune

In the wake of the hate crime that left 11 dead, tech platforms have started to suspend Gab from their services, writes Emma Hinchcliffe. Here...

Microsoft open sources MS-DOS again, this time on GitHub — ZDNet

Microsoft has made the MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source code available on GitHub for reference purposes, writes Mary Jo Foley. Here is the link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-ms-dos-again-this-time-on-github/ Here is...

Unisys wins $40 million Kansas IT modernization contract

The State of Kansas – a new client for Unisys – has awarded the company a contract to provide a hybrid cloud solution to help establish a secure and modern IT infrastructure for the state's executive branch. 

Google owns 63,605 miles and 8.5% of submarine cables worldwide — Broadband Now

Google makes billions from their cloud platform. Now they’re using those billions to buy up the internet itself — or at least, the submarine...