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AWS announces quantum computing service a month after Microsoft’s Azure Quantum

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Today AWS announces its quantum computing service, Amazon Braket, just one month after Microsoft introduced Azure Quantum for the cloud. "We believe...

Technology

Microsoft introduces Azure Quantum 10 days after winning JEDI cloud contract

Tim Hinchliffe1 month ago

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Today Microsoft introduces Azure Quantum, a "full-stack, open cloud ecosystem," to make quantum computing benefits more accessible to organizations worldwide....

Business Technology

Socially-conscious initiatives take center stage at Microsoft Build 2018

Patrick Quinn2 years ago

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This week, Microsoft hosted the eighth annual Build conference in Seattle, Washington, bringing together hundreds of the top developers from...

Business

Microsoft Technical Communications Director Joins The Sociable Advisory Board

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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We at The Sociable have experienced a lot of growth over the past two years, and now we are proud...

Mobile

Microsoft Seeing AI app not just for the visually impaired, broad range of tools

Lisa Shipley2 years ago

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The Seeing AI free app from Microsoft was originally made to help people in the low-vision community. For people outside...

Technology

Indian entrepreneur creates virtual rehab through physical therapy gamification

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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After enduring a life-altering accident on a motorcycle, an entrepreneur in India set about to fix a broken industry where...

Technology

How Microsoft developers use ‘real life code’ to help UN monitor humanitarian crises

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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Microsoft developers are aiding in the mission set forth by the United Nations to monitor humanitarian crises around the world...

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

The internet is full of trolls. This is nothing new. However, the tactics used by trolls can go way further than stupid comments on YouTube, and doxxing is an example of this.

If you are not familiar with the term doxxing, it is the publishing of private or identifying information, such as a home or work address, about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. While this might sound outright illegal, as it stands the law surrounding doxxing is limited and vague.

To get a better understanding of where the US law stands on this issue, what the future of doxxing might look like, and how you should respond if you are a victim, we are joined by Joseph Hoelscher, a criminal defense attorney and Managing Attorney of a Texas law firm, Hoelscher Gebbia Cepeda PLLC, who has worked on multiple doxxing cases in the past, from both sides, as clients who were charged with online harassment and with clients who were the victims of doxxing.

And for our side piece today, we have Computer Says LOL, where we have a stand-up comedy bit from Don McMillan, a technology engineer turned stand up comedian.