Tag: Facebook
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COOD: Civilized One-on-One Debates on God, Science, Religion & Metaphysics
Tired of having heated discussions on God and religion with angry people? Tired of having impolite or rude reactions to your logical arguments? The art of debating is simple: Just be polite and respect one another! And yet, to-day it is harder and harder to find someone who can actually do that! And that is…
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Facebook, drones, Internet: The need for NO-Internet! [Φοβού τους Δαναούς...]
If a new Facebook plan is successful, the easiest way to access the cloud may be ... in the clouds. Facebook wants to spread Wi-Fi Internet to unconnected parts of the world with drones, and at a summit in New York earlier this week, the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo…
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Facebook, Google, the death of Internet, true knowledge...
In February, Facebook purchased the WhatsApp messaging service for the mind-boggling sum of $19 billion. It was the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company ever, but it also proved a clear, albeit subtle, point: Our relationship to personal data is shifting. WhatsApp charges users $0.99 a year, a fee it justifies in a straightforward way—no…
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Facebook, face detection, our lost soul...
Facebook researchers have built DeepFace, an algorithm that can pick a face out of a crowd with 97.25 per cent accuracy. That means it is almost as good as we are at recognizing a face. (1) But is that correct? Can this be correct? Is our face simply a pattern of lines and colours? Do…
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Animals. Facebook. Friends.
We all know that the internet loves animals. Now you can take that adoration one step further and friend a wild animal on Facebook. The creatures are getting online thanks to WildMe, a social media app that pulls data from citizen-science platform WildBook and turns it into Facebook pages. The prototype app, already live online,…
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