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Top Stories @PCWorld Apr 01, 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 • Reddit's 'warrant canary' is dead, hinting at U.S. demand for its user data • Here's how Windows 10's Ubuntu-based Bash shell will actually work • Gmail April Fools' prank yanked after Minion mic drop GIFs wreak havoc on peoples' lives • The best April Fools' Day tech pranks of 2016 • March's mighty new PC hardware: Radical PCs and revolutionary components • Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear review: A fitting end to a legendary game, 17 years later • PCWorld Show Episode 10: HoloLens, PC gaming (fixed!), smart bots and evil Tay • Tesla's $35,000 Model 3 won't ship until late 2017, yet it still makes other EVs nervous • From cult to comedy classics, streaming this week • Xbox's first universal Windows apps include Hulu, NASCAR, Nickelodeon, and Dailymotion • Mozilla co-founder's ad-blocking Brave browser will pay you bitcoin to see safe ads • Windows 10 usage surges as Microsoft pushes upgrade as a Recommended update • Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments • Quantum Break may or may not be a good game, but PC reviews are nonexistent Reddit's 'warrant canary' is dead, hinting at U.S. demand for its user data Reddit has removed a notice, known as a warrant canary, from its transparency report for 2015, suggesting that it may have received a secret national security order for user data. Read More ▶ Here's how Windows 10's Ubuntu-based Bash shell will actually work Aimed at developers, Bash brings a complete Linux command line to Windows, but only the command line. Read More ▶ Gmail April Fools' prank yanked after Minion mic drop GIFs wreak havoc on peoples' lives It's all fun and games until someone loses their job due on April Fools' Day. Read More ▶ The best April Fools' Day tech pranks of 2016 Those crazy, geeky pranksters from Google, Samsung, Kayak, and more are at it again for April Fools' Day 2016. Read More ▶ March's mighty new PC hardware: Radical PCs and revolutionary components March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion, with a smorgasbord of gaming PCs, gorgeous laptops, and the most powerful graphics card in the world. Read More ▶ Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear review: A fitting end to a legendary game, 17 years later Siege of Dragonspear feels like a long-lost (and polished-up) chapter of the original Baldur's Gate—like it belonged from the start. Read More ▶ PCWorld Show Episode 10: HoloLens, PC gaming (fixed!), smart bots and evil Tay Jon, Mark and Gordon discuss HoloLens hotness, whether Microsoft has fixed PC gaming, and bots (both good and evil). Read More ▶ Tesla's $35,000 Model 3 won't ship until late 2017, yet it still makes other EVs nervous There's a reason folks lined up the night before to preorder the Model 3: It has 215 mils of EV range and Tesla's sterling pedigree. But fans still have a ways to wait: The car's due in late 2017. Probably. Read More ▶ From cult to comedy classics, streaming this week Must-see (or re-see) movies from Kubrik, Kaufman, Allen, and others will have you glued to your screen. Read More ▶ Xbox's first universal Windows apps include Hulu, NASCAR, Nickelodeon, and Dailymotion The promise of porting Windows 10 apps to Xbox already has a few takers including Hulu and Nickelodeon. Read More ▶ Mozilla co-founder's ad-blocking Brave browser will pay you bitcoin to see safe ads Brave, a new browser from the co-founder of Mozilla, gets serious about replacing the web's worst ads. Read More ▶ Windows 10 usage surges as Microsoft pushes upgrade as a Recommended update Windows 10 boosted its growth in users during March after a slow February. Read More ▶ Critics of DMCA takedowns flood Copyright Office with thousands of comments Critics of the Digitial Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining about a process that often forces websites to kill user-generated content when faced with a copyright complaint. Read More ▶ Quantum Break may or may not be a good game, but PC reviews are nonexistent Let this be a warning: Any Quantum Break reviews at the moment were conducted on the Xbox. The Windows Store-exclusive PC version is yet to be tested. Read More ▶

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