It's usual for Google to use AI (Artificial Intelligent) and its machine-learning capabilities to power its products. As a competitive and innovative company, it continues to look for ways to improvise. That includes open-sourcing its "brain".
The social giant Facebook has its own popular News Feed. It's indeed useful to users that want updates about the news they like. But News feed was never that good in delivering real-time content and this can be frustrating to those that wanted fast and actual information.
The social network giant Facebook is achieving the next things it can be proud of. The company has notched another quarter of revenue that beat estimates after stepping up its mobile-advertising efforts, with a reported third-quarter sasles of $4.5 billion, compared to $4.37 billion estimated by average analysts.
Just like any operating system, it's always a progress on the move. No matter how good the developers were in creating it, there are still bugs lurking somewhere around the corner.
The 140-character microblogging service Twitter has just replaced its Favorite star with a heart button. To many of its users dismay, they have a lot to say.
Tor is a free software that implements second-generation onion routing, a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the internet. The software is popular among Deep Web (part of the web that can't be accessed by ordinary means) users.
But is it totally safe?
Forcing users to use their real name rather than pseudonyms has made repeated protests, citing its use by trolls as a way of harassment. Facebook announced that it's changing the term of the highly controversial "real name" policy on October 30th, 2015.
Indonesia is a country with more than 17,000 islands. Connecting all of them to the internet is a huge infrastructure challenge faced by the country.
Bing is Microsoft's search engine. Competing directly with Google, it has been struggling hard to get just a glimpse of its success. Back in 2011, Bing succeeded in bringing a billion dollars a quarter. Then it remained unprofitable, until now.
AdWords is 15 years old. Launched on October 23rd 15 years ago with this press release, it's Google's largest source of income that fueled the company to become the titan it's known for.
