Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report or even go shopping. In… Read MoreDaily Archives: April 13, 2016
Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report or even go shopping. In… Read More Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State University have taken an important step: weaving circuits i...
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Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app.
The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back, continuously. Read MoreVine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much ...
Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app.
The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back, continuously. Read MoreVine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much ...
And it may be coming soon to an iPhone near you. The post The iPad Pro's Killer Display Proves Pixels Ain't Everything appeared first on WIRED.
The iPad Pro’s Killer Display Proves Pixels Ain’t Everything
In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging — perhaps one of the service’s most important missing components — is finally coming. Butterfield told Mossberg that Slack had been using threading internally for months while testing what the best version of the tool would be for the service, which will hopefully come out in the… Read MoreThreaded messaging is coming to Slack
Suddenly the whole tech industry is knee-deep in AI-powered assistants. Now if we could just get them to be less asshole-y. The post Bots Need to Learn Some Manners, and It's on Us to Teach Them appeared first on WIRED.
Bots Need to Learn Some Manners, and It’s on Us ...
Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8.
According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan’s department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that “fluidly blend physical and digital… Read MoreRegina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook’s Building 8, a ...
Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s, and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to do that to GoPro. GoPro’s stock popped on the news and is trading up on the day.
The news comes from The Information and an internal email sent from GoPro’s founder and CEO, Nick… Read MoreVeteran Apple designer leaves for GoPro to be VP of ...
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. As Facebook’s director of machine learning Joaquin Quiñonero Candela said during… Read More