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Google’s voice assistant depends on the labor of hundreds of underpaid, subcontracted linguists. The Alexa competitor’s ability to purchase household items, schedule your day and answer an array of trivia is actually a bit of “smoke and mirrors” that relies on datasets assembled by underpaid contractors who hope to get permanent positions at Google. This is the latest in a string of criticism directed at tech companies like Google that rely on temporary workers for jobs similar to those of their full-time employees.[Julia Carrie Wong / Guardian]
Special counsel Robert Mueller made his first public comments since releasing the results of the Russia investigation. He’s reluctant about testifying before Congress, but didn’t go as far as absolving President Trump: “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
