Significant changes coming to Facebook

© Provided by: capital.gr Facebook plans to bring significant changes in the way the news feed is filtered by its complex algorithms, with emphasis on private posts from friends and family of users, and degrading the public posts by business and media information. The changes that will take place over Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

ARMAR-6: Robot-equipment maintenance assistant

©naftemporiki.gr ARMAR-6 was developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and specifically by Tamif Asphour and his team at the H²T workshop A prototype robot -designed to act as the basic platform for testing and developing new technologies related to the maintenance and repair of equipment in Ocado Technology’s Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Microsoft is preparing encrypted Skype calls

©Provided by: capital.gr Microsoft is working with Signal Encryption app company to develop a new encrypted Skype feature called Private Conversations. The new feature is already available for trial use at Skype Insiders. Application users will have encrypted end-to-end audio calls as well, as text messaging and the ability to Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Year of Artificial Intelligence is 2018

©naftemporiki.gr Year of Artificial Intelligence is ’18 Welcome to 2018, the year of Artificial Intelligence. In this way, Ralph Haupter, president of Microsoft Asia, wished to everyone in the technology area for the coming of the new year. According to Haupter, 70 years after 1950, when computer pioneer Alan Turing Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Microsoft provides Azure Bot service to developers

©Provided by: pestaola.gr The Microsoft Azure Bot service is widely available to developers, along with Microsoft Cognitive Language Understanding. In fact, Microsoft’s move is to make it easier for developers to design applications that allow the use of bots for a wide range of usage scenarios. Developers are trying to Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Artificial Intelligence: What it is and how it dramatically changes our world

©naftemporiki.gr Artificial Intelligence: What it is and how it dramatically changes our world Artificial Intelligence has been impressively evolving in recent years and -although it is often a matter of exaggeration or even destruction scenarios- it is enough to focus on real technological progress to realize its exciting potential. By Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

What the new world of big data brings to us

Everyone knows that Internet has changed the way businesses work, governments run and people live. But a new, less apparent, technological trend is proving to have equally great transformational power: “Big Data”. This is essentially a huge change in the way information is stored. Over the past two decades, an Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Analysts’ predictions for the Internet of Things

© Provided by: pestaola.gr According to Forrester Research, the Internet of Things during 2018 will be used by businesses. There are many areas that will link their operation to the Internet of Things, such as data management, big data analytics, data security issues and other areas, which are estimated to Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Humanoid robot that “does sports” and “sweating!

©naftemporiki.gr Humanoid robot that “sports” and “sweats” A team of Japanese specialists in robotics has built a new “human-like mimetic to man” that has a boy’s musculoskeletal complexity: The so-called “Kengoro” is able to display his “human” abilities through a series of exercises, including bends and sit-ups. As the New Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Instagram now allows you to track topics (follow hashtags)

© Provided by: capital.gr The hashtags are the basic tool for characterization in postings made in Instagram and one of the basic tools in the user’s hands to do his related searches for material that interests him. The service behind the social networking platform has announced that users can now Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Chrome will block annoying ads from February

© Provided by: capital.gr Google announced in June its effort to boost Chrome to such an extent that it can automatically block annoying ads. This announcement was made after the big development of ad blocking programs in the form of extensions, and now the company itself has decided to take Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook will alert users when their photos are uploaded

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Facebook announced yesterday that it would start using face recognition technology to inform users of the service when other users “upload” their photos. According to the company’s announcement the use of this feature will be optional while it is done to protect the privacy of the Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook: New button allows you to get rid of your annoying friends

©Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. Facebook: New button to get rid of your annoying friends Are some Facebook friends annoying, but you can not (do not want to) erase them? You may be one of those who will benefit from the new wake-up button that the network will launch  in Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Broadband connection via … wet twine (rope)!

©naftemporiki.gr Broadband connection via … wet twine (rope) Engineer at a small, British Internet service provider has managed to make a broadband connection work by using two meters … wet twine (rope). Andrews and Arnold’s engineer who carried out the experiment made it essentially for fun. This connection was at Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google: New apps turn you into comic!

© Sofokleousin.gr Google: new apps turn you into comic! (vid) Now whoever -and whenever wants to- can become a comic character, and behind this entertaining innovation is of course the giant of technology called Google, which has launched new Apps. Google is developing new photo applications and has officially announced Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

New augmented reality effects on Facebook

© Provided by: capital.gr Facebook has announced a new augmented reality tool suite that its members will be able to use in messages they exchange via Messenger. “World effects” -as it characterizes them- allow the user to convert three-dimensional objects into photos and videos and use them for messages they Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …