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Facebook reaches 2 billion monthly users

The Independent - Tech

Facebook has announced that it now has two billion monthly users. The company reached the milestone today, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealing the news in a post on his Facebook page. "As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people!" he wrote. 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 giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


'Petya' cyber attack: List of affected companies shows scale of hack

The Independent - Tech

The'Petya' cyber attack is affecting major companies around the world. The ransomware, which is being likened to WannaCry, which crippled the NHS in May, initially attacked businesses in Ukraine, but has spread to more countries, including Russia and the UK. However, experts have warned against paying the ransom, as doing so could encourage similar attacks in the future. These are the companies and organisations that have confirmed they've been affected by the Petya attack. 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.


Nice! Thanks! Love it! Gmail's auto-reply is perfect for the lazy emailer

The Guardian

The company has announced it will stop automatically scanning users' emails in order to provide targeted adverts. At almost the same moment, though, it has decided to launch an auto-reply system that scans one's emails and generates possible responses from which you can choose. The new functionality, added to the app store versions of Gmail, works by analysing a large, anonymised body of emails to generate possible responses. Machine-learning systems then rank these to pick the "best responses to the email at hand". So, could a machine do a better job at replying half-heartedly to colleagues and social invitations than me?


[video] Custom Software Development with @MobiDev_ @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud #Analytics

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"MobiDev is a Ukraine-based software development company. We do mobile development, and we're specialists in that. But we do full stack software development for entrepreneurs, for emerging companies, and for enterprise ventures," explained Alan Winters, U.S. Head of Business Development at MobiDev, in this SYS-CON.tv With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation. Every Global 2000 enterprise in the world is now integrating cloud computing in some form into its IT development and operations.


So, How Does Machine Learning Apply To Cyber Security?

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My friends and family find themselves discussing news stories these days that are inundated with futuristic tales of automation and how it is changing their lives in some form while giving them a distinct feeling of being left behind as they age. The media approaches automation from multiple angles, though most publications often address modern day automation as a new frontier taking over mundane tasks now, but possibly our jobs in the future. Today's automation certainly offers many wonderful benefits, for example, robotics in manufacturing automation, pattern recognition in self-driving cars, or just pre-learned actions such as airplanes flying by wire. One of the key components in all of these automation technologies is machine learning in one form or another. Such a wide variety of machine learning applications and their respective evolutions has become a broad subject resulting in a net positive impact on our society.


'Petya' cyber attack: WPP goes offline as ransomware spreads

The Independent - Tech

WPP's website is down after a huge cyber attack. The advertising giant has confirmed that a number of its companies have been affected by a hack that initially hit Ukraine, but has now started spreading to other countries around the world, including Spain and India. How the attack began is not yet clear, but there are fears that it could be like the enormous WannaCry attack that locked staff out of NHS computers in May. 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 giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


'Petya' cyber attack: What is this ransomware and is it more dangerous than WannaCry?

The Independent - Tech

A virus is spreading rapidly across the world, shutting down some of the world's biggest companies with apparently no way of stopping it. It would be shocking if it didn't sound so much like the last crippling attack on the internet โ€“ Wannacry, which took down the NHS as well as a range of other huge companies just a couple of months ago. And the two appear to have come from the same family. That will come as an extra to worry to IT professionals โ€“ in part because the disastrous effects of Wannacry were supposed to have been patched and fixed, and in part because when the virus originally spread it was only stopped by a stroke of luck. 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.


'Petya' cyber attack: Chernobyl's radiation monitoring system hit by worldwide hack

The Independent - Tech

The monitoring systems at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have been broken by a worldwide hack. Systems usually used to monitor the area around the power station โ€“ which is still an active and dangerous area following the disaster in 1986 โ€“ are not working because of the cyber attack, Ukrainian authorities said. Those areas must now be monitored manually, according to a statement. The entire country of Ukraine is being hit by a sustained cyber attack that has hit some of its most important state and private infrastructure. Though the attack began in the country โ€“ and most of the damage is still being done there โ€“ it is rapidly spreading across the world, hitting firms across Europe and America.


Wimbledon serves up a new take on journalism in the age of AI

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The Wimbledon Tournament is 150 years old. It is as quintessentially English as strawberries and cream, Hugh Grant, and Queen Elizabeth. But that's not to say that it's stuck in the past -- thanks to a partnership with IBM, Wimbledon is using Watson to automate key parts of the iconic tennis event. One area where this is most apparent is in the editorial side of the iconic tennis tournament. Previously, the task of creating highlight packages and annotating photographs would be the responsibility of a human.


Facebook Messenger's AI assistant helps you save links for later

Engadget

Two months ago, Facebook finally rolled out M, its AI-powered personal assistant, to the general public. Instead of the limited edition of M that would answer your every beck and call (it had a lot of human help), the public version of M has to be triggered with certain words. A few features at launch include suggesting stickers to use in conversations or prompting an Uber ride if M detects you need to get somewhere. Today, Facebook is adding even more M suggestions to the mix: a "save it for later" function, birthday wishes and call initiations. The save-for-later function is pretty self-explanatory.