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The Sundar Pichai hearing was a major missed opportunity — Wired

Like earlier House hearings with tech leaders, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the day proved heavy on theatrics and light on substance, writes Issie Lapowsky.

Here is the link: https://www.wired.com/story/congress-sundar-pichai-google-ceo-hearing/

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The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain — The Verge

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