A proposal by a local government to make China’s Covid-19 health tracking software permanent was met with widespread condemnation online, reflective of growing awareness of online privacy in China. The city of Hangzhou, the headquarters of tech giant Alibaba, suggested turning the health tracker app, which assigns a color code to individuals based on their risk of exposure or illness, into...
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Google is finally waking up. After weeks of excitement coursing through tech about OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, paired with news coverage of how Microsoft plans to incorporate it into products like Bing and Word, Google has made a move. The tech company once seen as a leader in artificial intelligence on Monday unveiled its version of a conversational AI service, which it calls Bard. Google said...
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