In the words of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, “Half of what you read on the internet is not true.” That’s the problem when you give billions of people access to a global forum where they can pretty much post whatever they want. You never know if what you’re reading is true, which is why …
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Now playing: Watch this: Scan old printed photos easily with Google’s PhotoScan… 2:04 The genesis of Google‘s latest push in photos arose 69 years ago. For vice president of Google Photos Anil Sabharwal, the inspiration for PhotoScan, which quickly creates a digital copy of a printed image, reaches back in his family’s history to 1947. His grandparents, who were Hindus …
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World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you’re in luck. Google said Tuesday it has vastly improved its Google Translate app, available on phones and the web. The search giant said it’s now incorporating “neural machine translation” into the software, which means it can translate whole sentences at a time, instead of breaking the text down to smaller chunks …
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Donald Trump won the popular vote. The Clinton Foundation bought $137 million worth of illegal arms and ammunition. An FBI agent associated with Hillary Clinton’s email leaks was found dead in a murder-suicide. The Pope endorsed Trump. If you saw any of these stories on the internet over the past few weeks, let’s be crystal clear: They’re not true. But …
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Microsoft has formed a partnership with OpenAI, an Elon Musk-backed company, to research artificial intelligence. The two companies will focus on “making significant contributions to advance the field of AI” and will work on their “mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems,” Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post. Microsoft added that it …
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Did Facebook help get Donald Trump elected? CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week that it’s a “pretty crazy idea” to think his social network might have swayed the vote by letting fake news proliferate on its site. That came after numerous allegations that the fake news shared on the social network helped Trump win. Now there’s a report that Facebook …
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You really can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google on Monday acknowledged its algorithms screwed up and that it placed a fake news story about Donald Trump winning the popular vote in last week’s election prominently in the search engine’s widely-read news section. “The goal of Search is to provide the most relevant and useful results for our …
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Adding flare to your Google Hangouts conversations is right at your fingertips. Google has hidden some super-adorable Easter eggs you can unlock to reveal some lol-worthy emojis and animations. 1. Typing /shruggie sends this little guy to your friend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. 2. Sending /facepalm sends (－‸ლ). 3. Every time you type /bikeshed the background color of your chat window changes colors. …
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Apple is considering an expansion into the wearables market with the launch of its own line of smart glasses, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The device would connect wirelessly to the user’s iPhone, displaying images and other information to the glasses wearer, Bloomberg reported, citing unidentified people described as familiar with the matter. The device, which the story said is still …
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Google is rolling out a new version of its Google Play Music streaming service this week that will recommend music for you based on the search engine’s machine learning tools and signals like your location and what you’re doing. So if Google knows you’re at work, for example, the Google Play Music app might recommend a “Chill Indie Beats” playlist. …
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