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Tech industry slowly rallies behind Apple in iPhone fight
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, law, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | The FBI had issues a court order to Apple to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists. When Apple declined, other tech magnates like Google and Facebook sided with them saying that tech companies cannot be ordered to compromise their customers' privacy by the governement. Allowing this to happen now would set a problematic precedent for the future.
Image Description | Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Blind Facebook users 'see' photos
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook, Instagram
Summary | Facebook has a new function that is meant to make the predominantly visual platforms of Facebook and Instagram more inclusive to people with visual impairments. The new software uses artificial intelligence to tell blind users what is in the images. It is not perfect yet but the image recognition can identify simple things like specific sports, etc.
Image Description | Screenshots of Facebook feeds with the image content captioned.
Image Tags | Facebook
'Chatbots' are coming
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The future is artificially intelligent. All major digital companies seem to see the most potential in messenger-based, artificially intelligent chatbots. Studies have shown that people value messaging services most highly on their smartphones so any innovation needs to be accessible through a messaging service. WhatsApp is a very significant one, it has 900 mio users.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the Facebook Messenger logo and a screenshot of an Uber chatbot conversation.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s)
'Chat bots' ready to take aim at big money
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook is opening its messenger to businesses. They can now market their services on the Facebook messenger and enable users to make purchases or talk to cusomer service through the messenger. The service is operated by artificial intelligence chatbots and is an attempt by Facebook to "own more of consumers' 'mobile moments.' "
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Facebook users are all smiles over emoji
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 26.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced a new way to express oneself on the social network: people can use emoji-like reaction buttons to represent love, laughter, anger, surprise and sadness. The "like" button was not always appropriate (e.g. to comment on a post about a death). People mostly think that the new reactions are fun. Other people are disappointed that Facebook didn't add a dislike button.
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'Chatbot' chatter picking up steam
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | At the annual software developer conference people think that Mark Zuckerberg will open up to chatbots for Facebook Messenger. Chatbots use artificial intelligence and simulate human conversation. For instance, they can help users book a flight, or order something. Chatbots are popular in Asia, where users can schedule doctor's appointments or buy shoes thanks to WeChat, a messaging app that uses chatbots. Microsoft also talked about bots last week; they are becoming more and more popular.
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Zuckerberg can now talk to his AI, but it's still no Jarvis
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.12.2016
Language | English
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Mark Zuckerberg is experimenting with his household appliances trying to connect them all to the internet so that he can eventually operate any and all devices in his home by voice command. He thinks that artificial intelligence will become more and more important in our daily lives and is hard at work in creating his own personal digital butler that follows all his verbal orders and even anticipates his needs. The technology is however not ready yet: not all household appliances can be connected to the internet and those that can often use different programming languages.
Image Description | Getty image portrait of Mark Zuckerbern while speaking.
Image Tags | male(s)
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