Some wonderful things are in development because of advances made in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. At the same time, there is perhaps an uncomfortable fear that machines may rise up and turn against humans. Usually the scenario is brought up in a joking matter, but it was no laughing manner to researchers at…
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Google And Facebook Fall For $100 MILLION Phishing Scam
Google and Facebook were phished for over $100m, it has been reported, proving not even the biggest technology companies in the world are immune from the increasingly sophisticated attacks of online scammers. Last month it was reported that two major tech companies were tricked by a Lithuanian man into sending him over $100m (£77m). Evaldas…
Facebook Rejects Females Code More Often, But The Issue is With Rank Not Gender
Female engineers who work at Facebook may face gender bias that prevents their code from being accepted at the same rate as male counterparts, according to internal company studies disclosed today by The Wall Street Journal. For Facebook, these revelations call into question the company’s ongoing diversity efforts and its goal to build overarching online…
Mark Zuckerberg wants to replace all world screens with special glasses
If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has his way, you’ll never have to buy a gadget with a screen again. Instead, you’ll be using a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses or even contacts in the future in order to place digital content on top of any surface. At a keynote speech at Facebook’s annual F8…
Here’s How Mark Zuckerberg Made His Own AI Assistant
When new engineers join Facebook–no matter whether they’re just out of college or VP-level veterans–they spend their first six weeks in Bootcamp, an intensive program designed to help them learn the ins and outs of the company’s massive code base and the always-evolving set of programming tools at their disposal. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s original engineer,…
Watch This Demo of Japan VR From 1990
With Google, Facebook and Samsung all making forays into VR and AR technology, virtual reality is on the brink of breaking into mainstream culture. But long before it was available to the masses, VR was just another experimental technology only few had access to – and it goes all the way back to the 1990s,…
Facebook Messenger video calls in VR Announced by Oculus
Facebook Messenger video calls in VR Announced by Oculus, Onstage at the Oculus Connect 3 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a Facebook Messenger video call from his wife while in the new social VR environment. It appears that Facebook is finally confident enough with its VR arm that it’s willing to promote cross-network compatibility….
Code Your Own AI Assistant Using Python
Code Your Own AI Assistant Using Python Language with Easy Steps, An AI Like JARVIS As his 2016’s challenge, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he’ll be coding his own AI personal assistant. While I don’t know about the progress made by him in this endeavour, there are many existing resources that you…
A Facebook Messenger Hack Which Let People See The Links You’re Sending
There have been reports of a strange trick that is potentially leaving links in your private Facebook messages open for strangers to access. It may come as a worry that your flirty memes and viral cat video messages might have been snooped on, but there are reportedly no plans to fix the bug. According to a…
Facebook Wants to Turn All of Us Into Fundraisers
The strange and terrible thing about that ALS ice-bucket challenge is that it ended years ago, and yet we are still feeling its effects. Facebook was inspired by its viral success to create a feature that lets all of us fundraise for charity without ever leaving the site. Let’s get the big question out of…
Facebook is listening to your phone calls
Facebook has shut down rumors that it uses your mobile device’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations so it can better target ads. In a statement issued on June 2nd, Facebook said it “does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed.” The company says it only shows…
Facebook CEO Predicts Computers Will Soon Be Able to Read Our Minds
Tech giant Mark Zuckerberg is claiming that social media platforms will soon be able to read users minds and beam their emotions straight onto the internet. As internet users seem less and less concerned with their privacy, and willing to share the most intimate details of their lives on the internet, his ideas may not be far fetched. While…