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software

[sawft-wair, soft-] / ˈsɔftˌwɛər, ˈsɒft- /


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He then worked briefly at Microsoft as a software design engineer before joining Facebook in 2006.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Human rights advocacy group Liberty has warned that UK police forces already use earlier versions of facial recognition technology, which combine footage recorded on body-worn cameras with software to provide retrospective facial recognition searches.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Along the same lines, dictation software has made a massive leap this year.

From Slate • May 24, 2026

“Many software people and developers and sometimes researchers of my age have similar experiences.”

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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