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Technology Parade: TikTok, Google, and Apple

TikTok gets educational, AI gets its own email, and Apple gets virtual.
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Technology Parade: TikTok, Google, and Apple

People in 1923 didn't know how good they had it. For instance, they never had to make sense of the following sentence: TikTok is adding a STEM education content-only feed to its app.

The science, tech, engineering, and math videos will become available in the coming weeks and implement stricter moderation/vetting for videos appearing in the feed. 
Of course, we may not need to worry about it if the app is banned from the US later this month. 

Remember when suddenly, every fast food place had a pretzel bun? Well, AI is the new pretzel bun, and tech companies are putting them on everything.

As part of a test, Google is adding AI to Gmail and Google docs for a small number of users. Eventually, the company hopes to add generative artificial intelligence to its Chat, Meet, Sheets, and Slide applications in an ongoing effort to out-nerd Microsoft.

Microsoft is pushing into the AI space full steam ahead but has just laid off its entire Ethical AI team. The brand's Office of Responsible AI lives on, but the Ethics and Society taskforce that bridged the gap between policy and products is another casualty of Microsoft's ongoing layoffs, which will ultimately impact 10K workers.

Access to email AND no more ethics? Somewhere Skynet's great grand-motherboard just learned to smile. 

Apple has lost 11 high-ranking execs since mid-2022, but CEO Tim Cook has his eyes on something more important. Or rather, in something more important.

The company says its Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality headset could release to the public as soon as June of this year.

However, employees expecting bonuses in April will need to wait until October as the company avoids layoffs by controlling spending in other ways.

We are sure Mr. Cook is not hoping to sell enough headsets in June to cover bonuses in October, but like...the timing is weird, right?

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