By now, you’ve probably heard: The upcoming iPhone X doesn’t have a home button, and it doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor either. How will you log into your phone? How will you tap-to-pay? Apple’s hoping you’ll use the brand-new Face ID — where you simply look at your phone to be logged in automatically. I know …
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On Facebook‘s industrial-looking campus in Menlo Park, California, a mundane white wall makes up the exterior of one of the buildings, not far from Mark Zuckerberg’s desk. In April, the social network’s founder and CEO insisted someone put a plaque on the wall to commemorate the space. All over Facebook’s offices worldwide, the walls are decorated by work from artists …
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I remember my roommate, way back in 1986, laboriously stringing together phonemes with Apple‘s Macintalk software to get his Mac to utter a few sentences. It was pioneering at the time — anybody else remember the Talking Moose’s jokes? But boy, have things improved since then. Publishing a new round of papers on its new machine learning journal, Apple showed …
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YouTube has announced updates in its ongoing fight to prevent the video platform from being used to promote terrorist content. The initial set of four steps, announced by Google in June, included using new technology “to help identify extremist and terrorism-related videos”; adding more human experts to flag videos; removing money-making opportunities from videos that come close to, but don’t …
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A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language. Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network’s AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on their own: Bob: “I can can I I everything …
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Soon, eBay will let you shop on its app by snapping pictures. The e-commerce company on Wednesday said it’s developing two new image recognition tools for its mobile app. They’ll only be available in the US and are set for release this fall, with a desktop version arriving later. The first feature, simply called Image Search, will let you take …
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Are offensive comments on your Instagram posts ruining your brunch? The photo-sharing site is introducing two filters to clean up those comments, the company said Thursday in a blog post signed by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. The first automatically keeps certain offensive comments off your posts before you see them. The second looks for spam comments and blocks them as …
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Now playing: Watch this: New earpiece can translate eight languages 1:10 Aussie startup Lingmo is farewelling language faux pas with an earpiece that can translate eight languages, taking seconds, and it could be yours within a month. Lingmo’s Translate One2One earpiece translates spoken conversation across English, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Chinese, all without the need for …
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The next time you want to use an emoji to show your friends how you feel, you might think about actually showing them how you feel. Google wants to help you do just that with a new feature for its chat app Allo that creates custom emojis using your face as its base. The auto illustration feature relies on neural …
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