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Top Stories @PCWorld Apr 02, 2016 Why Microsoft wants to help developers build bots One of the key parts of Satya Nadella's keynote address to attendees at Microsoft's Build developer conference Wednesday was a discussion of creating virtual assistants and intelligent chat bots to help users do everything from managing their calendars to booking hotel reservations. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • What's in HPE's persistent memory? • Tom Clancy's The Division review: Bow before the Grind • Oculus Rift preorders get free shipping as customers get restless • This week in games: Half-Life 3 confirmed, and hopefully you didn't fall for that one • Intel's new SSDs are advance scouts for cutting-edge NVMe storage tech • Intel's new SSDs are advance scouts for NVMe • Report: Google tests a new group conversation app dubbed 'Spaces' • Tesla Model 3: What Elon Musk revealed about this $35,000 EV | PCWorld • CraftBot 3D Review | PCWorld • Microsoft is putting Windows 10 and Cortana at the center of smart homes • What will it take to make AI sound human? What's in HPE's persistent memory? Memory and storage have been separated in computers for decades, but that's changing. Read More ▶ Tom Clancy's The Division review: Bow before the Grind Tom Clancy's The Division is a grind in every sense of the word. Read More ▶ Oculus Rift preorders get free shipping as customers get restless A component shortage has slowed the rollout of the long-awaited VR headset, prompting Oculus to extend a goodwill gesture toward its customers. Read More ▶ This week in games: Half-Life 3 confirmed, and hopefully you didn't fall for that one Plus: Doom gets a live-action trailer and Dark Souls gets an eighties action trailer. This is gaming news for March 28 - April 1. Read More ▶ Intel's new SSDs are advance scouts for cutting-edge NVMe storage tech With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users. Read More ▶ Intel's new SSDs are advance scouts for NVMe With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users. Read More ▶ Report: Google tests a new group conversation app dubbed 'Spaces' Google's never-ending quest to organize all the world's information might include plans to run all your group conversations. Read More ▶ Video Tesla Model 3: What Elon Musk revealed about this $35,000 EV | PCWorld Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the eagerly awaited Model 3 electric vehicle on March 31, 2016. Here's what you need to know about the most affordable Tesla ever.. Watch Now ▶ Video CraftBot 3D Review | PCWorld While the CraftBot Plus has some drawbacks and is in need of a few operational tweaks, this is among the best small desktop 3D printers around. Watch Now ▶ Microsoft is putting Windows 10 and Cortana at the center of smart homes Are you too lazy to open the door or switch on a light? Let Windows 10 and its Cortana voice-activated digital assistant do the job for you. Read More ▶ What will it take to make AI sound human? Conversation fillers such as "hmm" and "uh-huh" may seem like insignificant parts of human conversation, but they're critical to improving communication between humans and artificial intelligence. So argues Alan Black, a professor in the Language Technologies Institute at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, who specializes in speech synthesis and ways to make artificially intelligent speech sound more real. Read More ▶

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