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How Facebook plans to take over the world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook has been constantly evolving to adapting to current trends. The first stage was "personal"; people would share their thoughts and status. The second stage was pictures, and now it's "instant articles". Facebook has a great capacity for transformation. Facebook also tried to be a news industry, and also set its sights on services such as bookmarking, 360-degree video, customer service robots, payments and virtual reality. Facebook's stage 4 is live video, and stages 5 and 6 might be artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Image Description | Four photographs of Mark Zuckerberg at conferences, and photograph of attendees at a conference
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Allo, Allo, anyone at Home? Google unveils new gadget to take on Amazon's Echo and messaging app to target WhatsApp and Snapchat
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Google has declared war on other Internet giants regarding artificial intelligence. They introduced Google Home, a small speaker that can play music and access Google Assistant. Google also revealed the messaging app Allo that is supposed to bring Google's search engine into personal chats, as well as Duo, a video calling app.
Image Description | Photograph of Mario Queiroz in front of a projection introducing Google Home, photograph of Queiroz holding the device, photographs of Google Home and of Amazon's devices, photograph of Sundar Pichai, different logos, and photographs of conference stages.
Image Tags | logo, male(s)
Apple (finally!) gives Siri more work to do
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, virtual reality
Summary | At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple lagged behind Amazon, Google and Facebook in terms of artificial intelligence. At the conference, Apple didn't talk much about virtual reality or augmented reality; it rather focused on Siri and the fact that it will open up to third-pary developers. At the conference, a few characteristics stood out: Apple watch, tv OS, MacOS Sierra, and iOS 10.
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"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
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Les nouveaux terrains de jeu des géants du Net
(The new playground of the internet giants)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 22.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, virtual reality
Summary | Google is going to launch "Home", an intelligent assistant that will be able to answer its users' questions, schedule an appointment, or answer emails. Google wants to catch up with Amazon, that released "Echo". Google also presented "Allo", an intelligent messaging app that can answer people's answers. Finally, Google also relies on virtual reality with its new platform called Daydream. Facebook presented something similar with its helmet "Oculus".
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Esta es la tecnología que matará a tu ‘smartphone’
(This is the technology that will kill your smartphone)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | According to some experts, augmented reality is threatening the future of mobile phones, and soon smartphones will disappear. Facebook is interesting in creating a parallel universe. In April, at a conference, Facebook talked about the possibility of writing directly from the brain. Virtual reality is the future, and it will offer information in an non-intrusive way. Experts point out, however, that the great challenge of such a technology is its high cost.
Image Description | Video about augmented reality
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