Photo by Dean Drobot / Shutterstock.com Are you waiting to find out if you are among those caught in the Facebook breach that has been making headlines this month? Don’t expect the social media giant to clue you in. Although more than a half-billion accounts were involved, Facebook has no …
Read More »AI Weekly: Facebook, Google, and the tension between profits and fairness
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. This week, we learned a …
Read More »Facebook researchers propose ‘pre-fine-tuning’ to improve language model performance
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Machine learning researchers have achieved remarkable success with language model pretraining, which uses self-supervision, a training technique that doesn’t require labeled data. Pretraining refers to training a …
Read More »WhatsApp: Share Your Personal Data With Facebook By Feb 8 Or Risk Losing Your Account
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is changing its terms of service to force users to share personal data including phone numbers and locations with its parent company, Facebook. It is also reported that if you do not agree to the new terms of service by February 8, you would risk losing access to …
Read More »Avaaz: Facebook continues to fail at flagging false and misleading posts about U.S. elections
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here Facebook is still failing to spot and flag false and misleading posts about elections, according to a new report published by Avaaz. …
Read More »Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google Now Hiring In S’pore – Which “Big 5” Should You Join?
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google are the five leading tech companies that form the popular acronym, FAANG. The FAANG firms have effectively dominated the consumer tech and entertainment experience. All five companies have bases in Singapore, and are expanding rapidly. For one, Amazon is hiring for over 200 jobs based in Singapore, according to …
Read More »InfluenceMap: Facebook allows climate disinformation ads to flourish despite claims to the contrary
A new report from InfluenceMap, a London-based nonprofit think tank focused on climate and sustainability issues, finds evidence that Facebook is allowing groups to use its ad targeting tools to spread doubt about climate change. Drawing on data from Facebook ads, the organization identified 51 climate disinformation campaigns in apparent …
Read More »U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Members of Congress investigating the activity of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google say antitrust law reform is needed to safeguard democracy and “ensure that our economy remains vibrant and open in the digital age.” The findings comes from a document released today (PDF), the culmination of a 16-month long investigation …
Read More »Apple and Facebook spin antitrust claims: ‘We’re misunderstood’
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now In late July, a Congressional subcommittee successfully compelled four major tech company CEOs to formally answer questions over allegedly monopolistic business practices — a public spectacle marred only by COVID-19-related isolation of the attendees. Amazon, Facebook, and Google faced some of the …
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