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Facebook is teaching students how Artificial Intelligence works

The show is all about artificially intelligent robots, known as hosts, that have been assigned different tasks in an amusement park created for humans. Similar concepts — and the “impending doom” — have been outlined in many previous TV shows and movies.

Well, before we reach that level of advancement, we need to understand its benefits and how it’s making our lives better than ever. Facebook wants us to realize the same and tell that Artificial Intelligence is influencing all the key spheres of our lives.

Facebook a factor behind loss of culture: PNG TPA

The PNG Tourism Promotion Authority (PNG TPA), in its call to embrace our cultures, tagged modern influences, such as social media platforms, as a factor behind the loss.

“We are not only losing our languages here but we are treating the English language very poorly by inventing and using our own short forms of the English language,” says the Authority in a statement.

“Sadly, it clearly reflects on the poor quality output from our educational institutions.

Facebook Express Wi-fi goes live in India

Express Wi-fi offers software to local entrepreneurs to allow them to work with service providers and share their internet connection with the public for a fee.

Users have access to a variety of services, including news and weather reports.

One critic of Facebook's previous plans was more receptive to this one.

"I think it's a great initiative, we need more companies providing access to the internet in India," said Nikhil Pahwa, editor and publisher of MediaNama, an Indian news site.

Facebook, fake news and the meaning of truth

Well there is a good argument that the answer is not a newspaper or broadcasting organisation but a social network, Facebook.

After all, it has 1.6 billion users and is becoming an ever more important place for them to share news. More than 40% of the population of the United States say they get news on Facebook - and for many it is where they go to share and comment on stories.

Facebook could pay heavy price if it censors news to please China

It has quietly built a censorship tool that would keep certain posts out of people's news feeds, according to The New York Times.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made no secret of his desire to get the giant social network unblocked in the world's most populous nation.

Facebook 'made China censorship tool'

The social network refused to confirm or deny the software's existence, but said in a statement it was "spending time understanding and learning more" about China.

No decisions about the company's approach in the country had yet been made, a spokeswoman said.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which campaigns for better privacy online, told the BBC the project sounded "extremely disturbing".

"Kudos to the Facebook employees who brought this to the attention of the New York Times," said the EFF's global policy analyst Eva Galperin.

Facebook to increase UK employees by 50% in 2017

It will hire 500 additional employees, including engineers, marketers, project managers and sales staff.

"The UK remains one of the best places to be a tech company," said its London-based executive, Nicola Mendelsohn.

Facebook's new headquarters will be in Fitzrovia at a site that is currently undergoing redevelopment.

The majority of the new staff will be based there.

Ms Mendelsohn will announce the expansion at the Confederation of British Industry conference later.

 

'High-skilled jobs'

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Here's how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed

It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn't have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms and people wouldn't breathlessly share stories that claim Donald Trump is a secret lizard person or Hillary Clinton is an android in a pantsuit.

It doesn't have to be this way. Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.

FB launches a unified inbox for businesses on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram

Benji Shomair, Facebook’s global head of Pages, described the new functionality as “one of our most frequent requests.”

Previously, if a businesses wanted to respond to customers on Facebook and Instagram, they had to open separate apps — an increasing challenge as more and more of their communication is happening on social media. (Facebook says Pages alone are seeing “nearly 5 billion comments, messages and visitor posts” each month.)

“There were some people even carrying multiple phones so that they can quickly respond to all the different things coming in,” he added.

FB apologizes for removing photo of firefighter with severe burns

Something about a picture of him celebrating his 60th birthday this month caught the attention of Facebook's monitors.

The image was removed from the social media site two times after Gustavson's friend posted it.

Amid widespread backlash, the social media site has apologized for taking down the picture, saying it was "removed in error."

"We have corrected the problem and notified the person who posted it to let them know and apologize," the company said.

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