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Massive Microsoft Outlook outage brings email to a halt

Microsoft reported a "gradual recovery" in its Outlook service early Tuesday after a widespread outage for several hours overnight halted email and disrupted Teams and other products."We've applied mitigation throughout the affected infrastructure, and we're starting to see gradual recovery,"…

Baidu stock surges after announcement of ChatGPT-style AI bot

Shares in Baidu soared on Tuesday, after the Chinese search engine giant said it would be launching its own ChatGPT-style service.Its artificial intelligence chatbot called "Wenxin Yiyan" in Chinese or "ERNIE Bot" in English will launch in March, a spokesperson…

Google unveils its ChatGPT rival

Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed "Bard" in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post that Bard will be opened…

Review: 'Looking for Jane' is gripping, historical, relevant

Gripping from the moment it begins, Heather Marshall’s novel “Looking for Jane” is getting a well-deserved re-release to hit the post-Roe v. Wade U.S. market. Nancy begrudgingly accompanies a friend to an illegal abortion in 1979. Angela is undergoing another stressful round of in vitro fertilization attempts in 2017. And in 1960, Evelyn finds herself at one of Canada’s homes for unwed mothers. Donna Edwards of The Associated Press says the novel has the momentum of a high-speed chase as Angela races back to uncover the past and Nancy and Evelyn’s timelines converge and speed toward the future. “Looking for Jane” is scheduled for release Feb. 7 from Atria.

Dell to lay off more than 6,500 employees

Dell plans to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday, in the latest example of tech companies cutting costs in an uncertain economic climate.Dell has about 133,000 employees, the company told CNN.…

Iran singer who faces prison wins Grammy for protest anthem

An Iranian singer who faces possible prison time for his song that’s become an anthem to the ongoing protests shaking the Islamic Republic wept early after seeing he’d won a Grammy. Shervin Hajipour appeared stunned early on Monday in Iran after hearing Jill Biden, the wife of President Joe Biden, announce that he’d won the Grammy’s new song for social change special merit award for “Baraye.” An online video showed Hajipour in a darkened room, wiping tears away after the announcement. There was no immediate reaction in Iranian state media or from government officials to Hajipour’s win. The singer is among over 19,600 people arrested amid the demonstrations.