Mark 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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