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Facebook tightens rules around live streaming in response to the Christchurch terror attack

After the recent incident of the Christ Church terrorist attack in New Zealand tech companies had scrambled to take action on time due to...

Twitter launches a new ‘search prompt’ feature to help users find credible sources about...

Facebook, Twitter and other social media firms are facing increasing pressure from lawmakers and the public to remove anti-vaccination propaganda from their platforms. ‘Vaccine...
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors vote in favour to ban use of facial recognition...

In January, San Francisco legislation proposed a ban on using facial recognition technology by the government. The ban is imposed on government agencies, including the...

What can Artificial Intelligence do for the Aviation industry

The use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology in commercial aviation has brought some significant changes in the ways flights are being operated today. World’s...
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Facebook again, caught tracking Stack Overflow user activity and data

Facebook has been trending in the news because of its ethics and data privacy issues. Right from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to multiple hearings...
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Facebook files a lawsuit against South Korean data analytics firm, Rankwave, for unlawful data...

On Friday, Facebook revealed that it has filed a lawsuit against a South Korean data analytics firm, Rankwave claiming that it is unlawfully using...

Researchers from China introduced two novel modules to address challenges in multi-person pose estimation

One of the major challenges in computer vision is Multi-person pose estimation. Though few of the currently used approaches have achieved significant progress by...
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PostgreSQL 12 progress update

Last week, the team at PostgreSQL released a progress update for the eagerly awaited PostgreSQL 12. This release  comes with performance improvements and better...
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Elvis Pranskevichus on limitations in SQL and how EdgeQL can help

Structure Query Language (SQL), which was once considered “not a serious language” by its authors, has now become a dominant query language for relational...

‘Tableau Day’ highlights: Augmented Analytics, Tableau Prep Builder and Conductor, and more!

The Tableau community held a Tableau Day in Mumbai, India, yesterday. The community announced some upcoming and exciting developments in Tableau. Some of the...

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