Facebook used billions of public Instagram photos to train artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to categorise images for itself. The photos contained 17,000 hashtags that were given by Instagram users.
Training computers to do things that humans normally do — such as identifying what is in a photo — typically involves...
After making its initial appearance at the beginning of April, Dell’s refreshed XPS 15 for 2018 is now available to purchase starting at $999. Technically, it’s the 9570 model now dubbed as the “new 15 inch” on Dell’s product page instead of the older 15-inch 9560 version. The fresher...
Google Pay is no longer confined to smartphones. As promised, Google is rolling out its rebranded shopping experience available on the web for both PC and iOS device users. It'll seem very familiar if you've used Pay With Google (since it's largely the same), but that's not a bad...
Facebook is giving legitimate website owners a way to fish out phishing scams.
The social network announced at its F8 annual developer conference in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday that it is extending the capabilities of its Certificate Transparency Monitoring tool to alert website owners when their sites are spoofed.
Security engineer David Huang and software...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Six years after last landing on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist to dig deeper than ever before to take the planet’s temperature.
The Mars InSight spacecraft, set to launch this weekend, will also take the planet’s pulse by making the first measurements of “marsquakes.”...
This week, Microsoft outlined a laundry list of new features it’s delivering, or will deliver, to its various Outlook apps, including bill-pay reminders, better calendaring across time zones, and a way to see who has RSVP’d for a meeting.
Not all of Microsoft’s new features are here—or if they are,...
Porsche’s march toward electrification will continue next year with the release of the new 2019 Cayenne E-Hybrid. It’s the first gasoline-electric variant of the third-generation Cayenne but it certainly won’t be the last. Here’s what makes it tick.
The Stuttgart-based company started with a 3.0-liter V6 engine turbocharged to make...
Annual conferences hosted by tech giants can generate lots of headlines — some predictable, some surprising. At F8 2017, the company shared experiments for hearing with your skin and writing with your brain. This year, in another wow moment, Facebook shared plans to use artificial intelligence to stitch together...
During today's earnings call covering the second fiscal quarter of 2018, Apple CEO declined to provide specific information on iPhone X sales, but he did suggest that the new device has been selling well, a major contrast to reports that have suggested poor sales and waning orders.
According to Cook,...
The 2019 Ram 1500 is giving Fiat Chrysler a painful reminder that Tesla isn’t the only automaker facing production delays, with the hotly-anticipated pickup failing to roll off the line at the rate hoped for. Revealed at the Detroit Auto Show 2018 in January, the new Ram 1500 borrowed...
