Privacy, Elections, Cars, Microsoft, Blockchain - Five Things - Issue #305

With California setting a benchmark for restrictions, companies are lobbying to supersede it with proposals that would give them wide leeway on how they handled personal data.

The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.

Cars will be specially designed around a rider experience, like work or rest, rather than just being a way to get from point A to point B.

CEO Satya Nadella knew the culture at the world's largest software maker needed a fix. Employees and investors are sold. Now he's got to convince the rest of us.

This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."

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