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Microsoft Using Minecraft to Teach its AI to Learn'The things that seem really easy for us are actually the things that are really difficult for an artificial intelligence,' researcher says.

				Stephanie Mlot
			
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Microsoft Will Soon Spawn a Classroom Edition of MinecraftBrick by brick, the tech giant plans to cash in on the game's popularity with educators and students.

				Kim Lachance Shandrow
			
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How the Latest Fake Minecraft App Reached No. 4 on the iTunes Charts and Then DisappearedIt was just one of dozens of malicious scam apps that copycat the wildly popular block-building adventure game.

				Kim Lachance Shandrow
			
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Watch Microsoft's Eye-Popping Hololens Demo Using MinecraftHold your pickaxe, partner. Microsoft just blew Minecraft clear out of the sandbox. Way out.

				Kim Lachance Shandrow
			
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Minecraft is the popular world-building, cross-platform video game released in 2011. The game was created by Swedish developer and designer Markus Persson at his company Mojang, which he co-founded in 2010. In 2014, Persson sold Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.