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Who’s In is Microsoft’s latest adventure in the social realm. It's designed to help friends plan group dates, making dinners, movies and visits easier to organise. Asking who’s in? Users set up groups of recipients and select a group activity they’d like to propose. To invite folks to attend (or give feedback), users then hit […]
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Federated Learning is a new Google initiative to improve its machine learning model while offering greater protection of users’ privacy. Machine learning sans snooping News stories about data security, integrity and intelligence have motivated many service providers to beef up perceptions about how they handle privacy. Google has long used search data, user behaviour and
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Bard makes it a snip to cut YouTube clips into semi-unique, social-friendly bites. Launched earlier this year, Bard is a smart little app that’s grabbing attention as a potential meme-making intermediary between YouTube and other social media outlets. Video remixes Users can pick from a list of YouTube videos to can work with. Once a
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We've all heard the term "Live in the moment". Now it seems Facebookers are taking the notion to heart. To wit: one in five videos on Facebook are now Live. We're doing it Live The figure comes courtesy of Facebook's head of video, Fidji Simo. Simo also revealed in a Facebook post that Live broadcasting
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Facebook has launched Call-to-Action Units for Instant Articles, giving publishers more bang for their buck. Press the button Publishers can now add CTA units, including Page Like and Email Sign-Up, using a self-serve creation flow. Once posted, they can access insights on the performance of these CTA units. More to come Facebook says Slate used
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Interested parties have figured out how to manipulate the results of Google’s much-promoted video search functionality, which was only released last month. Vision of video search The Cloud Video Intelligence API uses machine learning to analyse and auto-generate labels for video content. Launched in March, it was Google’s first public display of their ability to
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Here's an unlikely but potentially powerful alliance: Pinterest and Samsung have just joined forces to take on search. Pin the Phone on the Digital Donkey Pinterest's new visual search tech will power the image search function in Samsung's Galaxy S8, and Samsung's AI assistant Bixby. This means when users take pictures on the phone's camera,
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Snapchat has launched Search for Stories, which opens up the world of Snapchat content far beyond users you follow. Super Snaps Now Snaps submitted to Our Stories can be searched by anyone. There are currently over 1 million to choose from, ranging from the Super Bowl to the summit of Mount Everest. Snapchat says you
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Facebook is testing a second, alternative News Feed for mobile users. Multiple sources Select Facebook users have reported seeing a rocket ship icon on their iOS or Android devices, which leads to a second News Feed. This feed looks and feels just like the regular one, except the content comes from Pages and profiles you
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Video on Facebook is taken for granted these days, but a new study shows just how persuasive the medium has become on the social network. Look at this A study from Quintly looked at 167,000 Facebook profiles and 6 million posts from July to December 2016. Quintly found 90% of Pages use Facebook native videos
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