London, Facebook has filed a patent application for a technology that will automatically detect the users’ socio-economic status and segregate them in one of three classes — working class, middle class or upper class. According to the patent, the social media giant wants to build a system that collects users’Read More

San Francisco,  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shown confidence in users’ ability to choose what is right and wants them to dictate the veracity of news by ranking the content on the platform. During a conference call with analysts, he said he does not want Facebook to edit news becauseRead More

San Francisco, Encrypted messaging platform Telegram is back on Apple’s iOS App Store after being removed for reportedly making inappropriate content available to its users. “Telegram is back in the AppStore after being absent there since midnight CET. Every day 500,000+ users download Telegram for Android and another 100,000 downloadRead More

San Francisco: Facebook has rolled out an update to its News Feed that will prioritise local news that have a direct impact on the users and they can discover what’s happening in their area. The update comes after the social media giant announced changes to News Feed that showed postsRead More

San Francisco: Microsoft has acquired gaming start-up PlayFab for an undisclosed sum and will integrate its services into Azure platform to help developers build better games. PlayFab powers more than 1,200 live games and has served over 700 million players. “Together, Azure and PlayFab will further unlock the power ofRead More

San Francisco, Facebook has banned ads that promote initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and binary options trading from its platforms, including Instagram, Audience Network and Messenger. The new policy prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, Facebook saidRead More

San Francisco, Google removed over seven lakh malicious apps from Play Store in 2017 that violated its policies — 70 per cent more than the apps it took down in 2016 — the company said on Wednesday. “Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify andRead More

Washington, A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth’s climate, NASA said on Wednesday. IceCube–the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) in May,Read More

San Francisco Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researchers (FAIR) have tested a new approach that teaches bots how to chit-chat like humans. The team used a special 164,000-utterance data set titled ‘Persona-Chat’ to teach its AI to look for patterns. ‘Persona-Chat’ consists of more than 160,000 lines of dialogue, sourced from workersRead More

Washington Scientists have developed a superconducting switch that ‘learns’ like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain. The switch called a synapse, like its biological counterpart, supplies a missing piece for so-called neuromorphic computers, said researchers at The NationalRead More