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Tech collaboration between Waymo and DeepMind

Waymo, DeepMind collaborate to improve self-driving cars

Alphabet’s autonomous driving and robotaxi company Waymo does a lot of training in order to refine and improve the artificial intelligence that powers its self-driving software. Recently, it teamed up with fellow Alphabet company and AI specialist DeepMind to develop new training methods that would help make its training better and more efficient.

Smartphone with Temporary virtual phone numbers

Temporary virtual phone numbers has been effective in increasing safety of users

If you do not want to share your primary phone number with everyone or keep one number for family and friends and another for professional purposes, temporary virtual numbers can offer you a way to maintain privacy, and at times increase safety.

Netflix documentary ‘The Great Hack’

The documentary ‘The Great Hack’ reveals how social media has been weaponized in the present times

The digital traces of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat are being mined into a trillion-dollar-a-year industry and there is no way out. We are now the commodity for tech giants who are constantly watching us, sharing our data with third-party organizations who, then, are analyzing that in great details for individual-level targeting, swaying voters, benefitting advertisers and what not.

Reddit growth in Indian Market

Is REDDIT on the path of becoming the next big thing in Social media after Facebook in India?

When Alexis Kerry Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded Reddit in 2005, little did they realize that the social discussion platform would one day unite young netizens across the world in a way that even social networking giant Facebook may feel threatened?

Microsoft Windows 10 20H1 Update

Microsoft starts testing its new improved AI assistant Cortana as part of its latest Windows 10 20H1 Fast Ring build

Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 10 20H1 test build which includes some new adjustments to Cortana, among other new features. That Windows 10 20H1 test build, No. 18945, is rolling out on July 26, just days after Microsoft accidentally pushed an even newer Canary ring 20H1 build to testers in all rings.

Facebook Ad Archive fails to meet researcher's needs

Facebook AD library had failed to serve its purpose says experts

Researchers and experts have slammed Facebook for making its Ad Library meant to bring a new level of transparency to online ad buy riddled with errors and technical glitches that make it virtually unusable.

Google on users privacy control

GOOGLE CEO, Sundar Pichai aims at making Privacy Control more easily accessible for the users

Google is working towards making privacy controls more easily accessible, expanding its incognito mode to maps and adding new auto delete controls, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has said. “And we continue to challenge the notion that products need more data to be more helpful,” Pichai said on Thursday during an earnings call with analysts after Google’s parent company Alphabet reported revenue of $38.9 billion for the second quarter (Q2) of 2019. “For example, we invented a new technique called federated learning that allows us to train AI models and make products smarter without raw data leaving your device,” he said. Pichai’s comment came at a time when technology companies are facing challenges of protecting user privacy amid increased scrutiny by regulators. Google last week faced criticism for letting third-party organizations get access to users’ viewing habits even while browsing in ‘incognito’ mode.