In an interview with Reuters, father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee expressed disappointment over the state of his creation. He was particularly concerned by the abuse of personal data by Silicon Valley corporations like Google and Facebook, and the ease …Continue reading
Working to ensure integrity of important elections this year, says Facebook CEO
During the first of his two Congressional hearings on data privacy and disinformation concerns regarding the popular social media platform, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg assured United States Senators that he is working with his team to ensure the integrity of …Continue reading
Facebook’s blood donation feature launched in Pakistan
Facebook has introduced its new blood donation feature for users in Pakistan. The company has stated that the new feature will ‘make it easier for people to sign up to be blood donors, and to help connect donors with people and organizations …Continue reading
Applications Open For 4th Cycle Of Herself
Applications for the Punjab Information Technology Board’s women empowerment initiative Herself will open for its fourth cycle in October. The PITB has previously conducted three cycles of the programme and 120 women have graduated from it. Those accepted in the Herself programme …Continue reading
Instagram Takes on Snapchat
Instagram has taken on its biggest competitor, Snapchat, by introducing two new features: live videos on Instagram Stories, and private photos and videos in Instagram Direct that get erased after being viewed. These new features have been introduced following a move by …Continue reading
First Facebook for Developers Workshop Held in Pakistan
Facebook for Developers, in collaboration with startup accelerator PlanX, conducted a one day workshop in Lahore. The aim of the workshop was to introduce developers to tools from Facebook that would enable them to share, monetize and grow their applications. This is …Continue reading
Bringing Facebook’s She Means Business to Pakistan
Facebook’s female empowerment program She Means Business is stepping into Pakistan with a collaboration with Herself, a similar initiative of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB). Herself was launched by PITB in June 2016, after realizing the low representation of women in …Continue reading
WhatsApp Will Use Your Data to Target Ads at You. But Everything Else on Your Phone Is Doing so Too
The company’s decision to provide user information to Facebook is only the latest attempt by app-makers to collect information about their users. The world’s most widely used app-based instant-messaging service has made a change that is about to affect its one billion …Continue reading
Facebook Plans to Boost Its Translations Using Neural Networks This Year
Facebook is working to get significantly better at automatically translating updates from friends not written in your native language. The social network plans to roll out a new translation system later this year. It is based on artificial neural networks, an approach …Continue reading
Facebook’s Artificial-Intelligence Software Gets a Dash More Common Sense
Artificial-intelligence researchers at the company took on the project in an effort to explore how computers might learn some basic physical common sense. Understanding that, for example, unsupported objects fall, or that a larger object won’t fit inside a smaller one, is …Continue reading
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