Facebook loses their seat as the most downloaded app in the iOS app store to a Chinese social media company, Tencent comes out with a 50% cheaper offer for commuting vs Didi, and a no money down rental business model emerges, backed by Alibaba.

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Fake news is a problem, especially if fake stories spread virally across our social networks. Consumers want more trustworthy systems that filter out fake news. Here we look at some ways big data and machine learning tools are used to cut out fake news and build transparency.

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Even as Facebook takes steps to reign in mass academic harvesting of private user data, those efforts are running up against the reality of years of freewheeling harvesting and data sharing and the company’s historical reluctance to constrain academic misuse of its two billion users’ data.

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‘The Avengers’ movie star is co-producing the new AI documentary series for YouTube Red with his wife Susan Downey.

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At IoT World today, Sigfox unveiled its Sens’It Discovery solution that combines a sensor-packed device (thermometer, hygrometer, light meter, accelerometer, magnetometer and a reed switch) the sensit.io application and 1-year of network connectivity, to accelerate the adoption of IoT.

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Cumulocity enables Software AG customers to build what could be called a ‘service wrapper’ around each of their IoT enabled products — and this means that they themselves can deliver new services to their own customers.

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