Trolls turned Tay, Microsoft’s fun millennial AI bot, into a genocidal maniac; Meet Tay, the creepy-realistic robot who talks just like a teen; #StopIslam Twitter-trended for all the right reasons; RIPeach: Facebook killed the app I loved, and now I’m finally free; The surprising truth about how Twitter has changed your brain; Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey says he’s never blocked anyone on Twitter;
 
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Trolls turned Tay, Microsoft’s fun millennial AI bot, into a genocidal maniac
It took mere hours for the Internet to transform Tay, the teenage AI bot who wants to talk to millennials, into Tay, the racist AI bot who refers to Hitler.
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Meet Tay, the creepy-realistic robot who talks just like a teen
"Humans seem so awesome," says Tay -- who is not human, herself.
 
#StopIslam Twitter-trended for all the right reasons
The hashtag only took off when people started criticizing it.
 
RIPeach: Facebook killed the app I loved, and now I’m finally free
Peach Ball was cool. Facebook took it. Now it’s over.
 
The surprising truth about how Twitter has changed your brain
Despite a decade of scaremongering, there's no evidence that tweets are "rotting" or "rewiring" anything, neuroscientists say.
 
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey says he’s never blocked anyone on Twitter
"I can block people, I've never blocked anyone. I want to see what people are saying," Dorsey said.
 
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