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    Rep. David Cicilline previews the first major antitrust investigation in over 50 years

    Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., joins Yahoo News Senior Political Correspondent Jon Ward on “The Long Game” podcast to discuss a much-anticipated hearing in the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee. On Monday, the CEOs of the four biggest technology companies will testify: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple.

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    Stocks rebound on Microsoft boost

    U.S. stocks jumped on Thursday, giving the Nasdaq its biggest daily percentage gain since March.

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    Microsoft Paint isn’t being brushed out of existence after all

    MS Paint isn't going to be killed off, Microsoft says.

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    Microsoft Paint is about to be brushed aside after 32 years

    MS Paint is going to be killed off, according to a Microsoft update.

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    People who hate Comic Sans are using it wrong, creators say

    Ask people what their most hated font is and you’re likely to receive one unanimous answer: Comic Sans. Talking to The Guardian, typographer Vincent Connare and Microsoft Program Manager Tom Stevens said that it is the improper use of Comic Sans that rubs people up the wrong way, citing CERN scientists using it to announce the discover of Higgs Boson as one such “inappropriate” use. Things like the slideshow at Cern, where they announced the Higgs boson in Comic Sans, that was inappropriate,”

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    Could it be an iPhone beater? Nokia set to release a new smartphone in 2017

    Despite selling up to Microsoft in 2014, Nokia has announced that 2017 will see them make a return to the mobile phone market. The Finnish company sold their device business to the computer giant two years ago but they are set to launch a range of smartphones in the first half of next year. Rajeev Suri, Nokia’s chief executive, is set to make a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in February, where the company are expected to reveal their new tech.

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    Some men are sexually obsessed with voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri

    Apple’s Siri is not, it’s safe to say, the world’s most obvious sex symbol - ‘she’ is a disembodied, lifeless computer assistant built into iPhone.