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Minecraft Code Writing AI points to the future of computers

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Microsoft has just shown how artificial intelligence could find its way into many software applications by writing code on the fly. At today’s Microsoft Build developer conference, the company’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, demonstrated an AI assistant for the game Minecraft. The non-game character works with the same machine learning technology that Microsoft has …

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“They have a right to be angry”: Trudeau says the legacy of residential schools continues

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Photo: The Canadian Press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with a Vancouver family on Tuesday. It has been a difficult year for many since the discovery of unmarked graves in residential schools and those expressing anger are justified in doing so, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau made the comment on Tuesday after confronting angry …

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Johnny Depp is again a witness in a defamation suit against Amber Heard

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Johnny Depp returned to the courtroom on Wednesday in his defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp testified as a rebuttal witness: he had already testified four consecutive days earlier in the six-week trial. On Wednesday, he refuted Heard’s claim that Depp had nothing to do with getting him a role …

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Texas school shooting victims trapped in class, official says as families mourn losses

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Dismayed families gathered at a local civic center and turned to social media to mourn and desperately seek help to find missing children, as the death toll in a horrific school shooting at a Texas elementary school rose to at least 19 students and two teachers. At night, the names of the dead began to …

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Ontario reports the lowest positivity rate on PCR tests in more than two months

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Ontario is reporting its lowest positivity rate on PCR testing in more than two months, as well as a 13% week-on-week decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations. The Ministry of Health says 8.4% of all samples processed by Ontario labs in the past 24 hours were positive, the lowest figure since Feb. 22. Although officials have warned …

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