In June 2011, the world's biggest internet company launched what it hoped would become the world's biggest social network. And we aim to fix it," Google's senior vice president for engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog post introducing Google, and within a month more than 10 million people had signed up. Seven years later it would be caught up in an embarrassing leak that made exposed its few users' personal information. The hack was embarrassing not only for the vast amount of information lost, but just how little people cared about what was once one of Google's flagship projects. Google aimed to link all of Google's consumer products into one online identity, and the threat it posed to Facebook – which had a virtual monopoly in this space up until then – meant CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared a company-wide "lockdown" while it figured out a strategy to crush its rival. But seven years later, the final downfall of the social network has come at its own hands, following a massive data ...

Sony has confirmed it is working on the PlayStation 5 – but not that it is called that. The new console comes amid questions about whether consoles really represent the future of gaming. Microsoft, for instance, suggested at the same time that its new release could live in the cloud, getting rid of the wedge of computer that has occupied people's living rooms. Speaking an interview with the Financial Times, Sony president Kenichiro Yoshida would only say "At this point, what I can say is it's necessary to have a next-generation hardware". The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

The Japanese billionaire who will head off into space on one of Elon Musk's rockets says he "trusts" him, despite the various problems he has run into. Mr Musk has been repeatedly criticised for sending joking tweets that launched a federal investigation, for promoting unfounded allegations against the British diver who helped save children from an underground cave, and further personal troubles. But Yusaku Maezawa said he respects and trusts his fellow billionaire and that he is looking forward to the trip. "Twitter can get you into trouble," Maezawa, chief executive of Zozo Inc, said Tuesday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo. "And that can be said of Elon Musk, too."

A robot is set to become the first non-human to appear as a witness before the UK Parliament. The Commons Education Select Committee invited Pepper the robot from Middlesex University to give evidence at a hearing taking place next week about artificial intelligence, robotics and the fourth industrial revolution. "If we've got the march of the robots, we perhaps need the march of the robots to our select committee to give evidence," Committee chair Robert Halfon told Tes. "The fourth industrial revolution is possibly the most important challenge facing our nation over the next 10, 20 to 30 years." The Independent has reached out for more details about the appearance. Despite dystopian predictions and dire warnings of robots and AI taking over people's jobs, the government has previously expressed interest in the potential of robotic technology.

In a bid to combat fake news, researchers at the MIT's CSAIL and Qatar's Computing Research Institute have built an artificially intelligent system that is capable of scanning not the news per say, but its source to identify for falsehood. The AI, which is still under development, uses machine learning algorithm which has been trained using Media Bias/Fact Check's analysis of over 2,000 news outlets to look for the linguistic cues of sites that push fake or distorted news, Engadget reported. Additionally, the machine learning approach is also capable of drawing links between a site's authenticity and its Wikipedia page or web addresses. However, the system is not perfect yet, and can only detect accuracy with 65 percent effectiveness and bias with 70 percent.

Investment in data is helping Trainline to build innovative solutions that deliver customer value in the fast-growing rail sector. In the past year alone, the data team at Trainline has grown from ten to around 50 people. "All of that data investment," says Fergus Weldon, Trainline's director of data science, and EyeforTravel Amsterdam keynoter, "goes into building innovations to make journeys simpler, smarter and smoother for travellers". Across the rail industry, investment is accelerating, and not surprisingly. According to US-based Grand View Research, the rail market is growing at around six per cent a year, and is forecast to reach $830 billion by 2025.

With an unprecedented increase in the number of people using messaging apps today, and the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, the rise of chat bots seems to have been inevitable. Research shows that the number of people using chat apps has surpassed the number of those using social networking apps, which is believable yet surprising! Facebook Messenger claims to have recently hit the much coveted'billion' with 1.2 billion users on the platform. Last year, at Facebook's Developer Conference, F8, the support for bots on Messenger platform was unveiled. And since then, developers from around the world have been working to leverage the next-gen technology.

Indian enterprises have realised the importance of selling experiences, not just products, and global 3D experience major Dassault Systemes is now delivering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-infused Cloud-based solutions to help them achieve that, the company's Vice Chairman and CEO Bernard Charles has said. The France-based software behemoth, which has a significant presence in India, is ecstatic to know that its business experience platform "3DEXPERIENCE" has taken wing in the country among enterprises and start-ups in fields ranging from aerospace to automobile and transportation to manufacturing. "I am impressed by the growing number of our customers in India who have understood the importance of our 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It echoes our view that we are now living in a world of experiences and not just products. It is a new world and we are ready," Charles told IANS in a free-wheeling interview.

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According to mainstream video games, modern warfare is all about cyborg arms, laser shields and jarheads blowing up baddies under the guidance of recognisable character actors. However, the frenetic antics of the Call of Duty series and its ilk are behind the times. The drone pilot protagonist of 2012's free indie game Unmanned is a more accurate representation of a modern soldier: a man who plays video games with his son every weekend, and who has also killed countless foreigners from a grey-walled cubicle in Nevada. You play an American warrior, square of jaw and beefy of build, who works from an office out in the desert. A click of his mouse sends tons of missile plummeting from anonymous drone planes with an eerie blank space where you'd expect to see a cockpit.