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in TechnologyWhat’s the key difference between Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing?
Answer: Google released its conversational AI bot Bard on March 21, 2023, as a stand-alone webpage featuring a question box. Google’s Bard is a chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive, while Microsoft’s Bing is a chatbot optimized for search results. This makes Bard a noticeably less effective tool than Bing at surfacing useful information…
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in TechnologyWhich tech giant owns part of OpenAI?
Answer: With Microsoft’s investment package of $1 billion in 2019, OpenAI moved from non-profit to “capped” for-profit (with a profit cap set to 100X). A Semafor report published on Jan. 10, 2023, revealed Microsoft’s plan to invest an additional $10 billion in return for owning a 49 percent stake in OpenAI, which values the company…
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in TechnologyWhat is the all-time best-selling video game globally?
Answer: The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, released by Mojang in May 2009, selling more than 238 million copies across all platforms (as of April 2021). Microsoft revealed Minecraft Legends, a spinoff game planned for 2023, during its annual gaming showcase on June 12, 2022. The game will be available on all major…
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in BusinessWhich company owns Candy Crush and Call of Duty?
Answer: Microsoft announced on Jan. 18, 2022, it is buying “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush” maker Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion – the biggest gaming industry deal in history. The purchase pushes Microsoft past Nintendo as the third-largest video game company by global revenue, behind Sony and Chinese tech giant Tencent.
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in TechnologyWhat’s the meaning of the word Metaverse?
Simply put, Metaverse is a collection of Virtual 3D meeting spaces. It’s been one of the most prominent tech buzz terms of 2021. Epic Games directed fundraising to build Fortnite into a metaverse; Microsoft presented Mesh, a mixed reality software enabling virtual presence through Microsoft devices. South Korea announced the creation of a national metaverse alliance…
