The social giant Facebook is continues its attempt to connect the whole world through the internet. On July 7th, 2016, the company is introducing OpenCellular, a wireless access platform that is able to support a wide range of network platforms, including Wi-Fi, 2G as well as LTE.
NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate, and it has a good reason to protect itself from people infringing its copyrighted contents. As a way to keep things in place, it has patented a way to detect files being shared by large groups of people of peer-to-peer network (P2P), in real time.
The microblogging platform Twitter has just launched its first ever sports livestream on July 6th, 2016 by showing Wimbledon games.
The world is big and the world is diverse. In terms of socializing on the web, Facebook should know this better than anyone else. In fact, out of its over 1.5 billion users, less than half that number speaks English. So to speak, the rest consists of dozens of other languages.
Facebook's Like, Share and Follow button are seen as one of the most visible yet powerful philosophy that the company wants to spread. The familiar blue buttons that could be found in millions of web pages, are having a face lift.
The internet knows a lot about you. And as one of the most popular service on the web, Google collects a lot of information about its users. To make things easier for them, Google is looking to make it easier for users to control their data throughout its services and their various devices.
Google Maps is a gamechanger to many people in how they commute. Along with Earth, Google update the two apps to use a imagery from the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat 8 satellite. While this update doesn't make Maps and Earth more useful, it indeed makes them more beautiful to see.
Twitter is changing in many parts. From eliminating its 140-character limit to make itself more useful, it's now showing its dedication to make its pictures more interesting to see.
When two people meet, they can often predict what will happen next. That's obvious. But observers can also predict what will happen: a handshake? A hug? Or a kiss? Humans are able to anticipate actions based on experience and also knowledge.