I open the Amazon Go app on my phone, scan a QR code on top of the white turnstile and watch as electronic arms open to let me in. Glancing around the convenience store, which is bustling with Amazon employees shopping for lunch items, I head left to the cold drinks section, grab a can …
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At YouTube, every time a user uploads something appalling, a cat-and-mouse hunt begins, to find and purge the pest. Now imagine the cat having to sort through 400 critters a minute to find the offending rodent. With 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds, the site has an “absurd” scale, Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said in an …
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YouTube’s artificial intelligence is getting better at dragging you down a video rabbit hole. For more than 70 percent of the time you spend watching on Google’s massive video site, you’re lured in by one of the service’s AI-driven recommendations, YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said Wednesday, speaking at a panel discussion at CES. And if you’re watching on …
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Facebook is trying to help users learn more about what’s going on in their own communities. The social network said Wednesday it’s testing a new section of its app dedicated to events and news stories from local publishers and organizations. The new section is called “Today In,” and it’s being tested in just five cities right now: New Orleans; Little …
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Facebook’s M is on the way out. The social network is shutting down its virtual assistant chatbot, which uses a combination of human contractors and artificial intelligence software to answer queries and perform tasks for people in Facebook’s Messenger app. The M bot, first announced in August 2015 and still in beta, will be shut down on Jan. 19, the …
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Worried about someone is using Facebook’s facial recognition technology to replace their profile picture with your face? Now there’s a setting for that. The social media giant will soon roll out “optional tools to help people better manage their identity on Facebook using face recognition,” according to a blog post by Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, its director of applied machine learning. …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has two rear cameras, while the Pixel 2 XL has just one. And while you may assume two is always better than one, in this comparison that’s not necessarily the case. My journey testing these pocket photography wizards took me over land and sea and both phones proved skillful enough to capture the world around …
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At first glance, Brad Parscale might seem an odd choice to have run President Donald Trump’s social media campaign during the 2016 election. Parscale owned a web development and marketing agency before he joined up with Trump, which he thinks actually worked in his favor. “This was the first political campaign I ever worked on in my life,” Parscale said …
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UberEats wants to get to know you. The food-delivery service added three new features to its app on Thursday that aim to learn your tastes, preferences and likes. It’ll now show “recommended for you” menu items, eater-generated restaurant ratings and also let you “favorite” certain dining spots. Essentially, UberEats is getting more personal. “With such a large and growing selection …
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Some iPhone users are feeling exposed by a feature in their phones’ Photos app. When they type in the word “brassiere” in the photo search function, iPhone users find pictures their phone thinks include bras. As it happens, those photos tend to be a little intimate. Word began spreading on Twitter on Monday about this feature, and iPhone users began …
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