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Artificial Neural Networks
InternetSocialTechnology

Google and Facebook are building large Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos. But now they are using Artificial Neural Networks for creating artistic images. Facebook aims at creating realistic images using two techniques to generate tiny thumbnail images. Facebook’s

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Apple Music Services
Technology

Apple earlier announced that their upcoming streaming Apple Music service that will be launched on June 30th will be offered as a free trial for its users for three months. However, it also negotiated to not pay rights holders their royalties during the first three months of free trial and

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Pinterest has hired
SocialTechnology

Pinterest has hired former Facebook and Apple Engineer Scott Goodson to improve its platform. Scott Goodson has been hired as the head of Pinterest’s core experience, task along with leading the social network’s mobile platform and web teams. Although Scoot Goodson was not a high-profile employee during his time at

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Twitter's Project Lightning
SocialTechnology

Although Twitter is a great service for catching up on breaking news and live events, but for that you have to first follow the right people. It looks like the company has a plan to fix that with a new its feature, codenamed Project Lightning. According to Buzzfeed, the news-focused

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Nokia is Returning
SmartphonesTechnology

The former world number one mobile maker, Nokia is returning to the mobile phone market in 2016 The chief executive of the company told Germany’s Manager Magazin that the company is again planning to start designing and licensing mobile phones once an agreement with partner Microsoft allows it to in

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Google Will Remove Revenge Porn
Technology

Google Will Remove Revenge Porn from Search Results now. The search giant announced on Friday that it will honor requests to remove intimate images and videos shared without the consent of subjects from its search results. A web form will be soon available for people who want to submit their

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Google’s Stock Android Clock App
GadgetsSmartphonesTechnology

Google has unleashed a large number of its own apps into the Play Store and now they have unleashed Google’s Stock Android Clock App on Google Play store. It will allow the search engine giant to update these apps separately rather than fixing the issues for separate apps in software

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EFF Report
Technology

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a digital rights organization unveiled its fifth annual privacy report called ‘Who Has Your Back?’ report this week, ranking top tech companies on how well they do at “protecting your data from government requests.” Nine tech companies received a perfect 5-star ranking: Adobe, Apple, Credo,

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Facebook news food
SocialTechnology

Facebook is frequently testing out new features to improve the user experience. Now, Facebook has added ‘See First’ feature to let users control their news feed, earlier this week they tested “Suggested Topics” feature to let users to come up with topics to talk about. See First is a button

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Apple Watch 2
ComputersGadgetsSmartphonesTechnology

Apple is planning to launch Apple Watch 2 in 2016 with new features including a front facing video camera and expanded Wi-Fi capabilities. One of the shortcomings in the first generation of Apple Watch is its dependence on the iPhone to do anything and the company is working to somewhat

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