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Google commits $25 mn to AI-powered humane projects

San Francisco: Google has pledged to give $25 million to launch projects that apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to inspiring solutions to societal problems. Google said the grant will be used to fund the Google AI Impact Challenge contest, which is part of its AI for Social Good program dedicated to “addressing some of society’s […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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IBM to acquire Red Hat for $34 bn

San Francisco: Sending a strong signal towards dominating the emerging $1 trillion Hybrid Cloud market, tech major IBM has announced to acquire Open Source Solutions leader Red Hat for a massive $34 billion. The acquisition, IBM’s biggest so far, will provide open approach to Cloud, featuring unprecedented security and portability across multiple clouds, a joint […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Snapchat to run out of steam as user growth stalls: Report

San Francisco: With just $1.4 billion in its kitty at the end of third quarter results, the already struggling multimedia messaging platform Snapchat could even lose $1.5 billion in 2019, analysts have predicted. Snapchat lost nearly 2 million daily active users in the third quarter this year and now has 186 million daily users. “Snapchat […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Artificial Intelligence now helps design novel perfumes

San Francisco: Tech major IBM and Symrise, one of the top global producers of flavours and fragrances, have created industry’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-designed perfumes for sale. The AI-based system named “Philyra” can learn about perfume formulas, raw materials, historical success data and industry trends, IBM Research said in a statement late on Saturday. “Building […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Twitter 'deeply sorry' for failing to act on threatening tweets

San Francisco: Twitter has apologised for failing to act on threatening tweets made by Cesar Sayoc who is suspected of sending improvised explosive devices to Democratic leaders and critics of US President Donald Trump. “We are investigating what happened and will continue to work to improve how we handle concerns raised by anyone on Twitter,” […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Microsoft completes $7.5 bn acquisition of GitHub

San Francisco: Microsoft has closed its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, a leading software development platform which brings more than 31 million developers to create, collaborate, share and build on each other’s work. Nat Friedman, former CEO of Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016), is taking over as GitHub’s CEO, Microsoft said in a statement […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Apple likely to launch iPads, Macs on Oct 30

San Francisco: Apple is likely to launch new iPads and Mac computer lineup on October 30 at an event in Brooklyn, the media reported. Apple sent at least two versions of its invite. One, colourful with sketched of images of people, buildings and other items, possibly indicating a new Apple Pencil or other artistic features, […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook now has a War Room to fight election interference

San Francisco: In line with its efforts to prevent misuse of its platform during elections, Facebook has set up a War Room to reduce the spread of potentially harmful content. Facebook faced flak for not doing enough to prevent spread of misinformation by Russia-linked accounts during the 2016 US presidential election. The social networking giant […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Amazon invests $10mn to support US recycling infrastructure

San Francisco: Amazon on Tuesday announced a new investment of $10 million in Closed Loop Fund (CLF) to support recycling infrastructure in the US aimed at cutting the amount of waste treated at landfills. Amazon said its investment will increase the availability of curbside recycling for three million homes in communities across the country, making […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Google joins many in shunning Saudi summit after Khashoggi's fate

San Francisco: US internet giant Google Inc. has said its Cloud CEO Diane Greene will not attend an upcoming international business conference to be held in Saudi Arabia. The high-profile Future Investment Initiative (FII) Summit, dubbed as “Davos in the Desert” is scheduled for October 23-25 in Riyadh, Xinhua news agency reported. Greene is among […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Facebook expands policies on voter suppression

San Francisco: With the US mid-term elections looming, Facebook has announced to expand its policies against voter suppression — action that is designed to deter or prevent people from voting. The social media platform has banned “misrepresentations about how to vote, such as claims that you can vote by text message, and statements about whether […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Apple acquires music analytics start-up 'Asaii'

San Francisco: In a bid to further cement its position in the global music space, Apple has acquired “Asaii,” a start-up developed music analytics engine for music labels and artist managers, the media reported on Monday. According to a report in Axios, the deal was worth nearly $100 million. “Asaii’s products collect data from music […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook may soon bring 'Unsend' feature on Messenger

San Francisco: Facebook could soon be rolling out the “Unsend” feature for Messenger that would allow users to retract sent messages not only from their inboxes, but also from the entire chat thread, the media reported. “We have previously confirmed that we intend to ship a feature like this and are still planning to do […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Facebook to allow up to 250 people on group chat

San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook is rolling out the ability for members of Facebook Groups to launch group chats that, up to 250 members could join, the media reported. “Facebook Groups” gives the 1.4 billion active users of the app a platform to collectively plan events, arrange in-person meetings, or have deeper discussions with […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Instagram testing 'tap-to-advance' feature to browse through posts

San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging platform Instagram is testing “tapping” as a replacement of scrolling through posts on the platform, the media reported. The company is testing the tap-to-advance feature to navigate between posts in the Explore section of the app. “We’re always testing ways to improve the experience on Instagram and bring you closer to […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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