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these are the top stories of the week Microsoft gets tons of partners Google a I just composed music Elon Musk says some crazy and everything else you need to know microsoft announced holograms for everyone well sort of the company is opening up windows holographic to a whole bunch of hardware makers windows holographic is the version of Windows that powers microsoft's hololens that lets people experience augmented reality with what Microsoft calls holograms so who's partnering with Microsoft on the processor side you've got AMD intel and qualcomm on the pc side microsoft has a sous dell HP Lenovo and others these partnerships should lead to lots of mixed reality devices like the hollow wets microsoft hololens would be like its surface so while it is competition for its own partners the hololens will be on the higher end Google's Project magenta artificial intelligence tech has just created music for piano notes were fed into a neural network then project magenta created a 90 second piano tune the final version of the song features a drum track program by a human being right now magenta is still being developed when it is stable outside developers will be able to get their hands on magenta and github there's a new alliance in tech the European Commission and a group of tech giants have agreed to a code of conduct the tech companies involved our Facebook Twitter Microsoft and YouTube the code of conduct is to stop the spread of illegal hate speech and terrorist material the tech companies agreed that they will remove illegal hate speech in under 24 hours all the companies agreed to communicate with each other and government agencies let's pack in a lot more news because it's time for rapid fire Intel what nuts introduced its first ten core processor it's a next-generation Rodwell each chip intel says the chip is for mega tasker's the future national museum of comedy will feature Holograms of comedians performing this is the Pepper's Ghost variety of hologram so think tupac now you got it the museum opens up in 2017 in Jamestown New York according to Nikkei the Apple iPhone will ship to a three-year cycle between major models so the next iPhone will feel more like an iphone 6s two and an iphone 7 and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaking at the code conference says he expects sending people to Mars as early as 20-24 musk also says there's a good shot we're all living in a simulation oh one more thing Tony Fadell is leaving nest he'll still serve as an adviser at alphabet though but Dell headed up nest for six years now you're all caught up in sec to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet com flash update for a weekly dose hit up cnet.com flash radar on Maya's akhtar signing off