Facebook owned Instagram announced on Monday that it is testing a feature that would alert users of outages or technical difficulties directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two disruptions interrupted the services. Instagram said in a blog post that the test will carry out in the United States for a few months. On October 4, Users worldwide were unable to access its social media and messaging services, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger due to a six-hour outage. The company is also a working on a new feature that warns…
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Windows 11 users can now chat personally from Microsoft teams
Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 users will be able to use chat in Microsoft Teams. The feature is described as a simple experience that would allow Teams personal account users to easily make a video conference or chat with friends and family. Microsoft Teams chat will now be pinned to the Taskbar when Windows 11 boots. According to Microsoft, the ‘Team’s experience’ on Windows 11 and Chat has been built for personal Microsoft accounts and will be available to anyone who use such accounts. Microsoft Teams on Windows 11…
Read MoreInstagram adds new security features for teen users
Instagram is developing new methods to make the site more secure for young users. The photo-sharing app will now launch a new feature that will advise teens to stay away from harmful news feed contents and encourage them to “take a break” from Instagram. Facebook vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg announced the features shortly after the platform got accused of harming young users through Instagram. Clegg says, “We’re going to introduce something which I think will make a considerable difference, which is where our systems see that a…
Read MoreResearchers bring AI and simulation tools in the fight against covid 19
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is leading efforts to combine artificial intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge simulation workflows to better understand biological observations and accelerate drug discovery in its ongoing campaign to reveal the inner workings of the Sar-CoV-2 virus. Argonne started working with academic and commercial research partners to achieve near real-time feedback between simulation and AI approaches in order to better understand how two proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome, nsp10 and nsp16, interact to help the virus replicate and evade the host’s immune system….
Read MoreIndian researchers develops Ai chatbots answering COVID questions
Indian researchers are working to develop a chatbot based on an artificial neural network that can perform natural language processing (NLP). The team explains how the chatbot may be trained to answer COVID-19 pandemic-related queries. Details are to be found in the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics. According to Vishal Tiwari, Lokesh Kumar Verma, Pulkit Sharma, Rachna Jain, and Preeti Nagrath of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering in New Delhi, the emergence of a new coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2—and the following pandemic it triggered has prompted widespread alarm throughout the world. The…
Read MoreNew research to preserve the network when fibre is down
Wide Area Networks (WANs), global backbones and workhorses of today’s internet that connect billions of computers across continents and oceans, are the foundation of current online services. As a result of COVID-19’s reliance on online services, today’s networks are failing to meet the high bandwidth and availability demands imposed by new workloads. Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and from Facebook recently devised a method for preserving the network and lowering costs when the fibre goes down. ARROW, their technology reconfigures the optical light from a broken fibre to a…
Read MoreResearchers developed rechargeable batteries that can store tore six times more charge
An international team of researchers lead by Stanford University has developed rechargeable batteries that can store up to six times the charge of commercially available batteries. The breakthrough, described in a new paper published on August 25 in the journal Nature, could accelerate the use of rechargeable batteries and bring battery researchers one step closer to achieving two top stated goals of their field: developing a high-performance rechargeable battery that could allow smart phones to be charged only once a week rather than daily and developing electric vehicles that can…
Read MoreLG-korea sets new record for 6G transmission
A team of researchers from LG Electronics in Korea successfully transmitted data 100 metres over a 6G signal. LG officials have provided information about their test of next-generation wireless transmission technology on their company’s news page. As 5G cellular networks spread throughout the world, experts at various telecoms firms have been hard at work developing next generation 6G communications technologies. Moving to the new technology is projected to increase data transmission speeds by 50 times over 5G. It is also anticipated to reduce latency by 10% compared to 5G, making conversations…
Read MoreAICRA organizes the annual GAISA event from September 28th to 29th -2021
All India Council for robotics and automation organizes the annual GAISA event from September 28th to 29th -2021. New Delhi, India- Aug 19, 2021- The Global AI Summit and Awards gather the foremost presence of AI pioneers, industry executives, decision-makers, government agencies, media, and global societies. AICRA announced today that the second edition of GAISA, which will be held in New Delhi, India from September 28th to 29th, would focus on building a future workforce prepared to explore the advancements and benefits of artificial intelligence. Leading corporates, investors, burgeoning start-ups, and a…
Read MoreWaymo builds a hub for autonomous trucks
Waymo revealed plans to construct a center for its self-driving semi-trailer vehicles on a nine-acre property near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The Alphabet-owned firm also announced a fleet management partnership with rental truck giant Ryder as it seeks to expand its delivery and logistics operations. The South Dallas hub will serve as Waymo’s “main operations center” in the state for its fleet of self-driving trucks. The center will be created to handle “hundreds of trucks and employees” as Waymo moves closer to establishing a full-scale freight-hauling operation using its fully…
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