In recent time false news and images are being spread virally in Twitter and Facebook.To overcome this Twitter is working on a new feature that is to flag post that contains misleading,false or harmful information.They are still in the testing stage.If this feature is released it would look like a tab appearing in a top down menu alongside tweets.
If you want to know where Google is headed, look through Google Lens. The artificially intelligent, augmented reality feature seemed to generate the most interest at Google’s developer conference that wrapped up Friday. Of all announcements, it best encapsulated what Google’s transition to an “AI first” company means. Google CEO Sundar Pichai underscored the tool as a key reflection of Google’s direction, highlighting it in his Google I/O keynote as an example of Google being at an "inflection point with vision.” "All of Google was built because we started understanding text and web pages. So the fact that computers can understand images and videos has profound implications for our core mission," he said in his introduction of Lens. The feature is first being added to Google Photos and the personalized AI software Assistant, which is available on an increasing number of devices. Lens uses machine learning to examine photos viewed through your phone’s camera, or on saved photos on your phone, and can use the images to complete tasks.
The effects of South Africa’s economy being downgraded to junk status continues to be felt in the new vehicle sales industry according to Wesbank. All the new effects has an impact in it. The lender identified three worrying consumer trends emerging in the industry as a result of political and economic uncertainty.New vehicle sales for May 2017, as reported by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa), saw a year-on-year decline of 2.6%.In April, year-to-date sales volumes had shrunk 1.4%. With May’s decline, year-to-date sales are now down 1.7%. “WesBank forecasted marginal growth for 2017, which was made with expectation of a stable economic environment,” said Rudolf Mahoney, head of brand and communications for WesBank. “However, political and economic uncertainty have affected this outlook, as well as consumer buying behaviour.”
The biggest US tech firms are rallying behind the 2015 Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump's decision to leave it. Mr Trump's move has been met with dismay from other world leaders signed up to the accord - but much of the outcry can be heard on the west coast of his own country. The chief executives of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook have all criticised the president's decision.
Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie on Friday provided feedback on the company’s growth over the past year which included a 17% growth in the number of clients to 8.6 million. Speaking at Capitec Bank’s AGM, Fourie said that clients who use Capitec as their primary bank – those whose salaries are paid into their Capitec Bank accounts – grew by the same percentage and primary banking clients, as a percentage of active clients, is now almost half (46%) compared to six years ago when only a third of its clients used Capitec.
This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere. I’ve been doing these almost every week since 1991, starting at the Wall Street Journal, and during that time, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know the makers of the tech revolution, and to ruminate — and sometimes to fulminate — about their creations.
A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a brown dwarf a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun. Just six days after the launch of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website, four users alerted the science team to the curious object, whose presence has since been confirmed via telescope.
"It kind of gives a sign that the US is not going to be at the forefront of the technology innovation that's going to be required to meet the agreement's goals," says Mr Ball. "It gives the edge to the European and Chinese firms."
If we are to progress towards more secure and convenient authentication solutions, we have to start thinking beyond passwords. It may not be known to many, there are now many innovative and safe ways to authenticate users without passwords, as well as methods which still use passwords, but only in conjunction with multiple layers of protection, known as multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Despite significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it has been notoriously hard for computers to understand why a user behaves the ways he does. Now researchers report that computers are able to learn to explain the behavior of individuals by tracking their glances and movements.
New advances in neuro-technology could put the 'freedom of the mind' at risk.Future 'mind reading' technology could allow hackers to steal or even delete data from our brains, unless new human rights laws are prepared to protect against exploitation and loss of privacy, researchers have warned.
Researchers used naturally occurring pigment found in jamun as an inexpensive photosensitiser for Dye Sensitised Solar Cells.Scientists at IIT Roorkee have used the juicy, delectable Indian summer fruit Jamun to create inexpensive and more efficient solar cells.
MIT team has demonstrated its own prototype, a 3D printing robot that rolls around on tank-style tracks. While it's currently capable of building a simple, 50-foot diameter insulated concrete dome structure inside 14 hours, the team has some pretty amazing ideas for its future.
US entrepreneur Elon Musk has outlined his vision for a tunnel network under Los Angeles and shown how it might work.And he explained why he is committed to sending a rocket to Mars.
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Chemistry Division have developed a safer alternative to fire-prone lithium-ion batteries, which were recently banned for some applications on Navy ships and other military platforms.
British inventor Richard Browning lifted off from the shore of Vancouver Harbour on Thursday in a personal flight suit that inspired references to comic superhero ‘Iron Man’.Using thrusters attached to his arms and back, Mr. Browning flew in a circle and hovered a short distance from the ground, captivating attendees at a prestigious TED Conference.