Facebook announced last week that businesses will be able to use chatbots in its popular Messenger app. Two companies, The Muppets Studio and theScore, have high hopes for chatbots in interacting with fans.
Facebook says chatbots will change the way businesses communicate with their customers, but will businesses want to put their user communications in the hands of artificial intelligence?
In the next decade, Facebook will continue to focus on connecting people around the world, and it will do so by using artificial intelligence, virtual reality and chatbots.
The idea is to use AI to simulate human conversation to do things like help customers or to book a last-minute table at a restaurant, among other things.
In the past few weeks, North Carolina and Mississippi have adopted laws enabling businesses to discriminate against gays and transgender people by those who say serving them would infringe on their religious beliefs. Some large tech companies have condemned the laws.
Facebook announced new features for Facebook Live to make it easier for mobile users to create, find and share live videos.
Google could offer deeper integration with its apps, and more info about its customers.
Wix, a web development company, is using machine learning on Google's cloud platform to learn more about its users so it can help them find the images they need to build useful websites. It's one example of how Google sees companies applying its machine learning service in the cloud.
Google has set a deal to bring Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity to Cuba, but some are already wondering how much information and access will freely flow to the Cuban people.
In a morning news television interview today, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said the company doesn't censor users' tweets, and the company's not doing away with the 140-character message limit.
Amazon filed a patent application for a technology that would enable users to pay for purchases using a selfie.
Facing a sinking stock price and some executive walkouts, Twitter is reportedly handing out big-time bonuses and additional stock to keep some employees on board.
Online retail giant Amazon.com is back online after suffering a crash across its website and mobile app Thursday afternoon.
After earlier cancelling this month's planned launch of NASA's Mars probe, the space agency said today that the InSight mission will now lift off in May 2018.
The consensus is that Christopher Poole will help invigorate Google+, or other Google social-networking efforts. But Poole made his fame by posting controversial photos of female celebrities on 4Chan; is that sort of ploy in the cards for Google?