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Best of PCWorld May 20, 2016 Sex, lies, and superheros, streaming this week From Hitchcock to John Hughes to Hou Hsiao-hsien, there are 12 new movies for you to stream online. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Google I/O's biggest reveals: VR dreams, personalized AI, and chips that blow away Moore's Law • PCWorld Show Episode 17: Google invades your home, your car and your messages • US agency releases privacy 'best practices' for drone use • Can robots make art? Yes, but don't ask them to write a poem • Here's a look inside Google I/O's playground for developers • Dell's helping its own storage arrays see eye to eye • Move over, Google: Uber will test self-driving cars in Pittsburgh • Microsoft pledges to use more renewable energy in its data centers • Android apps will come to Chromebooks, as Google puts the Play Store in Chrome OS • Google's Daydream VR initiative: What it is, what it isn't • Bing Concierge appears to be Microsoft's answer to Google's conversational Assistant Google I/O's biggest reveals: VR dreams, personalized AI, and chips that blow away Moore's Law Google I/O 2016 was full of big news, from Android N to Daydream VR to new apps galore. Read More ▶ PCWorld Show Episode 17: Google invades your home, your car and your messages PCWorld's editors dish on the hot news, and this week it's all Google. The company's I/O developer conference was filled with deeply consumer news: a smart home, a smarter car, and perhaps smart-alecky responses to your friend's texts, all handled for you by Google. Read More ▶ US agency releases privacy 'best practices' for drone use The National Telecommunications & Information Administration released Thursday a list of voluntary privacy best practices for commercial and non-commercial drone users, in the wake of concerns that drones could encroach on individual privacy and open a new front in the collection of personal data for commercial use. Read More ▶ Can robots make art? Yes, but don't ask them to write a poem Robots can paint, but when it comes to writing, they shouldn't quit their day jobs. That's the combined conclusion from results of two contests announced this week. Read More ▶ Here's a look inside Google I/O's playground for developers Google held its massive I/O conference this week at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Here's a look at what developers found inside. Read More ▶ Dell's helping its own storage arrays see eye to eye Making storage systems work together can be a headache even if they're both from the same vendor. Dell is taking some steps to ease that pain. Read More ▶ Move over, Google: Uber will test self-driving cars in Pittsburgh Uber will begin real-world tests of self-driving car technology in the coming weeks, putting a custom Ford Fusion onto the streets of Pittsburgh. Read More ▶ Microsoft pledges to use more renewable energy in its data centers It's goal is to use 50 percent wind, solar, and hydropower by the end of 2018 Read More ▶ Android apps will come to Chromebooks, as Google puts the Play Store in Chrome OS Google's Play Store will be coming to Chrome OS, the lightweight operating system that powers Chromebook laptops. This move will suddenly give the app-starved Chrome a lot more to work with. Read More ▶ Google's Daydream VR initiative: What it is, what it isn't Google's going big into VR this year with Daydream, but it's not a single device. It's a spec, it's a controller, it's a standard. Read More ▶ Bing Concierge appears to be Microsoft's answer to Google's conversational Assistant A job posting at Microsoft reveals the Bing Concierge bot, indicating that Microsoft plans to respond to the new Google Assistant by putting bots on as many messaging platforms as possible. Read More ▶

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