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  PayPal cofounder and rocket maker Elon Musk keeps getting himself into the news. Sometimes he gets notice for his new products and projects, but he is also famous as a kind of self-appointed spokesman for the techno-future.

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  The strange case of James Howells's hard drive reached a judge this week, which should be cause for all of us to pause and reflect. In case you're not familiar with the heart-rending tale, Mr. Howells had quite a sum of cryptocurrency back in 2013, with his private keys stored on a hard drive that he removed from his computer and placed in a black bag.

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• KDE Plasma 6 Sets Release Date

  If you've been anxiously awaiting the release of the next big KDE Plasma milestone, you can rest assured it's sooner than you think.

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  The marketing moguls tell us all press is good press, but I never quite believe them. For instance, the recent dispatches on Amazon couldn't have been too good for the company's image, despite the sudden high volume of attention. In the news was the New York Times exposé, which described the company as a "bruising" environment, where management goes well beyond just asking employees to work hard. The report describes a culture of long hours and conflict, in which employees inform on one another anonymously and workers with health problems are summarily marginalized.

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  I feel like we entered a new era earlier this year when Google scientist Blake Lemoine declared that he thought Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence is "sentient," and that the company should probably be asking LaMDA's permission before studying it.

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