Mark Zuckerberg keen to smoothe Facebook's passage to India
It's little wonder Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seem so chummy. Modi is one of the world's most social media-savvy politicians and Facebook allows him to...
View ArticleHighlights from Q&A with Mark (Facebook Inc)
(Source: Facebook Inc) Today Mark Zuckerberg hosted an in-person Townhall Q&A at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi where he answered questions from people across...
View ArticleA "Like" for Mark Zuckerberg
A version of this article appeared on my regular column in The Indian Express "India is personally very important to the history of our company." Who would have thought that the path of spiritual...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg keen to smooth Facebook's passage to India
It's little wonder Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seem so chummy. Modi is one of the world's most social media-savvy politicians and Facebook allows him to...
View ArticleFacebook aims at AI to sort user data
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is studying the ancient Chinese game of Go for insights as it works on building an artificial brain -- one that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can also...
View ArticleFacebook's AI software could soon stop users from accidentally posting rude...
Facebook users will soon be asked if they’re sure they want to upload certain photos onto the social media platform thanks to new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that the company is building...
View ArticleSix Questions for Mark Zuckerberg on Science, Giving, and Facebook’s Role in...
Mark Zuckerberg was video-chatting with a scientist recently and was pleased to see a familiar sculpture on display in the man’s office. It was a Breakthrough Prize, a scientific award the Facebook...
View ArticleNew Milestones in Artificial Intelligence Research (Facebook Inc)
(Source: Facebook Inc) By Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer Today we're announcing new milestones achieved in Facebook's long-term artificial intelligence research. The advancements come from...
View ArticleFacebook wants AI to do your bidding
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is studying the ancient Chinese game of Go for insights as it works on building an artificial brain — one it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can sort...
View ArticleHow Facebook Turned Messenger From A Feature Into A Startup
With 1.5 billion monthly active users, Facebook has proven that it knows how to scale up a web business at least as well as any other company on the planet. But its sheer overwhelming enormity has a...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg, Facebook, And "Fast Company": Six Cover Stories (So Far)
In early 2007, Fast Company senior writer Ellen McGirt got a rush assignment from the magazine's editor, Bob Safian. Both were newcomers to the publication, having recently decamped from Fortune....
View ArticleFacebook is using 'Lord of the Rings' to teach its programs how to think
Lift the curtain on almost any tool on Facebook, and you're likely to see a robot at the controls. That's because artificial intelligence (AI) is responsible for powering things like automatic tagging...
View ArticleHere's how Mark Zuckerberg chooses who sits next to him at the Facebook office
During Fast Company’s recent in-depth look into Facebook’s plans for the future – which includes artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and drones – one employee offered some interesting insight...
View ArticleFacebook faces questions over Safety Check after hotel attack in Mali
A week after Facebook activated its Safety Check feature in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the social network is facing new criticism for not activating the feature in Mali after gunmen took...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg and wife donate $20 million to get US classrooms online
San Francisco: Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said that he and his wife are donating $20 million to help get high-speed Internet service to US classrooms. The money is being given to...
View ArticleFacebook takes Free Basics pan-India with RCom
Facebook has expanded its controversial 'Free Basics' initiative across the country to offer basic Internet access with its telecom partner Reliance Communications (RCom). Earlier called...
View ArticleFree Basics app available on Reliance Network across India: Zuckerberg
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Keeping up with its promise to make internet free for those who cannot afford it in India, social networking giant Facebook has chosen Reliance Communications Network to offer...
View ArticleFacebook expands Internet.org basic services to everyone in India
Social networking giant Facebook has taken another step in expanding the reach of its Internet.org, now called Free Basics, platform in India. In a post on Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "We just...
View ArticleHere are some of the crazy virtual reality videos you will start seeing on...
GoPro Spherical: Tahiti Surf VR Anthony Walsh and Matahi Drollet bring us inside some of the biggest barrels Tahiti has to offer in full 360°.For the most immersive experience, click and drag on your...
View ArticleIndianExpress.com launches Facebook’s Instant Articles for Android
Facebook has started rolling out Instant Articles to Android users in India along with IndianExpress.com and four others publishers. The 3.3 million followers of The Indian Express Facebook page will...
View ArticleSassy woman or machine? Tech giants divided over digital assistants
When users ask Siri, Apple's digital assistant, what she likes to drink, she is quick with an answer. "I have a thirst for knowledge," she responds. Her counterpart at Microsoft, Cortana, opts for a...
View ArticleShould digital assistants be sassy?
SAN FRANCISCO - When users ask Siri, Apple's digital assistant, what she likes to drink, she is quick with an answer. "I have a thirst for knowledge," she responds. Her counterpart at Microsoft,...
View ArticleObama joins Facebook, talks on climate change in first post
Washington: Barack Obama joined Facebook and the social media-savvy US President said he wanted his account to be a place where he could have "real conversations" with people as he made his debut with...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Is Working on Something Big at Facebook, Inc.
A New Feature Promises Big Gains for FB Stock The last two years have been extraordinary for Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), but it seems that Mark Zuckerberg is just getting warmed up. Stepping into new...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook enabled 'Safety Check' for attacks in...
Amid the horrific terror attacks in Paris, France on Friday, Facebook activated its "Safety Check" tool to help people easily let friends and family known that they were safe. More than 4.1 million...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence passes college entrance test
Artificial intelligence is now smart enough to be accepted into most Japanese universities. The National Institute of Informatics of Japan said last week that its AI program, developed with university...
View ArticleFacebook activates 'Safety Check' after Nigeria attack
Facebook activated its "Safety Check" feature in Nigeria after more than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in the northeastern city of Yola. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of...
View ArticleIndianExpress.com among first to launch Facebook’s Instant Articles for Android
Facebook has started rolling out Instant Articles to Android users in India with IndianExpress.com and four others publishers. The 3.3 million followers of The Indian Express Facebook page will now see...
View ArticleSassy woman or machine? Divide over digital assistants
When users ask Siri, Apple's digital assistant, what she likes to drink, she is quick with an answer. "I have a thirst for knowledge," she responds. Her counterpart at Microsoft, Cortana, opts for a...
View ArticleFacebook Inc Could Be a $1 Trillion Dollar Internet Powerhouse
When Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) debuted in May 2012 at around $42.00 a share, much of the talk circulated around the absence of profits and a clear vision by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Could the...
View ArticleSHOES.COM & Sentient Technologies Unveil Visual Filter - the World's First AI...
Powered by Sentient Aware™ for e-Commerce - discover the perfect pair of shoes without typing a single word VANCOUVER, British Columbia and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Shoes.com, the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg explains the key difference between Facebook and Alphabet
In a long and wide ranging interview with Fast Company, Mark Zuckerberg took companies — including Alphabet — to task for their lack of focus on a single project. "There are...
View ArticleFacebook billionaires dominate 40 richest under 40 list
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is the kingpin — no surprises there. But what you may not realise about this year’s Forbes 40 under 40 list is just how many of the United States’ richest young...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi to face heat in UK over Indian tax issues: Simon Thomson,...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face the heat on tax disputes with foreign firms when he meets British authorities and CEOs this week, as British explorer Cairn Plc had to fire 40 per cent...
View ArticleState team wins national-level Rural IT Quiz
A team of two students from Karnataka on Tuesday emerged winners of the national-level Rural IT Quiz 2015 organised by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in partnership with the Department of IT, BT and...
View Article‘Only movies build bad robots’: Google makes machine-learning software...
Google will make its machine-learning software TensorFlow available to the public as it hopes to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, it said this week. Machine learning is the core...
View ArticleComplelling films mark this fest
Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan and Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology present EXPERIMENTA 2015, The 9th International Biennial for Moving Image Art in India. It is India’s first and...
View ArticleFacebook’s Mark Zuckerberg taking two months of paternity leave
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he will take two months of paternity leave once his daughter is born. The Facebook founder wrote on his Facebook timeline that he has made a “personal...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Facebook partners with Airtel
In an announcement on Facebook recently CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company will bring ‘Free Basics’ Internet services through Internet.org to 17 African countries. The move is in...
View ArticleFacebook’s Free Basics now pan-India
Social networking giant Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’ initiative pan-India to offer basic internet access with its telecom...
View ArticleReport: India leads world in Facebook content censoring
India tops the list of countries censoring content on Facebook, new data by the social media giant has shown, as the number of restrictions tripled to 15,155 pieces of content in the first six months...
View ArticleSome question Facebook's response to Paris tragedy
Facebook responded to the tragedy in Paris by activating Safety Check for a situation outside of a natural disaster for the first time. But some are wondering, why this tragedy? Criticism of Facebook's...
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Tap Robot Brains To Do Your Bidding
Facebook is studying the ancient Chinese game of Go [pictured] for insights as it works on building an artificial brain -- one that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can also sort...
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