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Some tech employees don't want their work used by the military


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A group of Microsoft employees have published an open letter to that company's leaders titled “HoloLens for Good, Not War.” HoloLens is Microsoft's augmented reality headset. The company has signed a nearly $500 million contract with the U.S. Army to use the headset to train service members. Google and Amazon have also faced employee backlashes over military contracts. Molly Wood talked with Robert Latiff, a former U.S. Air Force major general and author of the book "Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield" about how he makes sense of the employee responses.
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