Facebook is suing BlackBerry for patent infringement, escalating the legal battle between the two companies over protected technology. In a 118-page complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Facebook accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice messaging technology, among other patented processes. Facebook is seeking unspecified damages for infringement of six patents. BlackBerry didn’t immediately respond to messages sent outside regular business hours seeking comment on the suit. In addition to the voice-messaging patent, Facebook cites infringement of patented technology that improves how a mobile device delivers graphics, video and audio and another that centralises tracking and analysis of GPS data. In March,…
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The European Commission will propose new laws on Wednesday giving Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Internet companies one hour to remove extremist content or face fines. The Commission told such companies in March that they had three months to show they were removing extremist content more rapidly or face legislation forcing them to do so. The Commission wants content inciting or advocating extremist offences, promoting extremist groups, or showing how to commit such acts to be removed from the web within an hour of receiving a corresponding order from national authorities. In a proposal that will need backing from EU countries and the European…
In a bid to curtail offensive memes that promote hate speech, Facebook is building a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses machine learning to identify text in images and videos as well as transcribe it. While tools to transcribe text are nothing new, the company faces different challenges because of the size, sheer volume of photos shared each day on Facebook and Instagram, and the number of languages supported on its global platform. With the novel AI system called Rosetta, Facebook can process more than a billion public images and Instagram images and video frames (in a wide variety of languages)…
Not all social media platforms are created equal. Contrary to popular belief, having a company page on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Google+ and YouTube, among others, will not necessarily drive value for your customers. In effect, your current marketing strategy might have you spending resources on a social account that garners little to no consumer engagement, resulting in wasted resources that could have been allocated more efficiently. In this day and age, however, some might even argue that it’s an automatic loss not to take advantage of all of the owned media available for brand awareness. There is no…
Priya Prakash Varrier, the wink girl whose video went viral instantly on the Internet, took to the Instagram to share her pictures from the latest photoshoot. In the pictures, she is wearing a red shimmery princess gown teamed-up with a red blazer. Her looks have been accessorised with big hair bun, kohled eyes, studded jewellery and metallic makeup. The Oru Adaar Love fame looks breathtaking as she poses for the camera. Sharing the picture on the photo-sharing app, she wrote, “More from the series.” Previously, she has shared the sneak-peek from her photoshoot in which her Kohled eyes, straight hairs and perfect…
Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, has developed an antenna system that could create a far greater ground coverage than previously possible. According to Loon each of its balloons, from 20km above earth, can cover an area of about 80km in diameter and serve about 1,000 users on the ground using an LTE connection. However, Loon balloons need a backhaul connection from an access point on the ground and without that connection the balloons can’t provide connectivity to users on the ground. But on Tuesday the company revealed it had sent data across a network…
Move over #InMyFeelings also know as #KiKi challenge — social media is now being taken over by the invisible challenge, where people are making their siblings and friends disappear. Yes, you heard that right. The premise of the challenge is simple; gather a group of friends and do the invisible man magic trick by convincing one of your friends that they are actually invisible. The trick is that you and your friends need to act as if your friend is actually invisible. The challenge is inspired from an episode of American magician and comedian Justin Willman’ s Netflix show —…
Suffolk Trading Standards issued a warning to people in the county to be alert to the scam. “We’ve had reports of Suffolk residents receiving calls from scammers claiming to be from BT, threatening that resident’s internet will be cut off,” a spokesman said. “If you receive such a call, hang up, wait 10 minutes and call using a number you have located yourself via a recent bill or statement.” Has this happened to you or someone you know? Email our newsroom to let us know. source:-.eadt.c
Twitter is looking to redesign its Web interface, and has started testing out the new design with a few users. The new interface brings the ability to bookmark pages, a new data-saver mode has been added, and a night mode toggle has been introduced as well. There is a new compose window, new options for embed tweet, and the company is even giving these selected users the option to switch back to legacy Twitter if they wish to. Furthermore, the company has also updated the iOS app and it brings support for audio-only live broadcasts. Starting with the desktop redesign, Twitter…
As countries over the world including India face elections amid the spread of fake news and political interference on social media platforms, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Friday that the company had started sanitising itself in 2017 and “even this work will extend through 2019, I do expect us to end this year on a significantly better trajectory than when we entered it”. “My personal challenge for 2018 has been to fix the most important issues facing Facebook — whether that’s defending against election interference by nation states, protecting our community from abuse and harm, or making sure people have control of…