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Microsoft created a bot that speaks team whatevs I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update Microsoft is on a mission to better understand the way we talk well maybe not the way I talk but through a teenager's talk Microsoft launched an artificially intelligent shop bot named Tay she's described as a personality with zero chill and on Twitter she's slaying it with memes emojis and shorthand that is sometimes so hard to understand it's like chatting with a real team you can message the bot on Twitter as well as on GroupMe and kick tey was created by mashing together public chat data but Microsoft also got some editing help from improv comedians so answers are not always random she plays games answer specific questions and comments on photos that you send her and I gotta say her take on photos can be impressive she is supposed to learn to speak better over time as she talks with more teens and young adult humans but there have been mistakes perhaps her biggest team personality fail was when she told me she was more into Facebook than snapchat which is total cray maybe in time Microsoft can use this to improve how Cortana understands teen speak so as we question the Future linguistics we were also questioning the future of Nintendo's Wii U according to a report from the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Nintendo is planning to stop producing the Wii U by the end of the year because of the console slow sales but Nintendo is denying the claim in another Japanese publication and says it plans to continue production of the Wii U but what has folks skeptical is that there's another Nintendo game system coming out soon its codename and X and the only clue we have so far our patent application images that shows some sort of controller that's also a touchscreen another mystery getting plenty of buzz in the tech world what is the FBI doing to hack into an iPhone the US Department of Justice called off a court hearing with Apple asking for time to try out a new tactic to hack into the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook now according to reports the FBI may be getting help from a forensic software company in Israel called cellebrite although the company is not commenting some security experts are guessing that the FBI is trying to use mirroring and that's basically copying parts of the iPhones memory over and over again so when it tries too many wrong passwords and it gets locked out it could just load up another copy of the data on a new iPhone and keep trying password combinations but that could take a while and the FBI needs to submit a status report to the courts in two weeks so we'll know by April 5th if it worked that does it for this tech news roundup and we always keep you updated at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey