Facebook begins testing encrypted chats in its Facebook Messenger. They will be referred as "Secret Conversations". Social network Facebook announced testing of encrypted messages in its Facebook Messenger. On Friday, the application starts "limited" testing of the new feature. It’s called "Secret...

Human skin cells replaces animal usage in cosmetic industry. Matthew Stock reporting to Reuters informs that the XCellR8 lab based out of the U.K. is busy developing new versions of cosmetics tests that are “animal-free”, whereby they are using human skin cells that were donated by “plastic surgery...

Japanese Panasonic Corporation is taking up computational linguistics, including speech recognition and synthesis, and automated translation, on the eve of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Not long ago, Panasonic has introduced a new multilingual solution. This is a hybrid of a megaphone and...

To remove extremist content from their sites, some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation, reports Reuters.   Internet companies are under pressure from governments to eradicate violent propaganda from their sites and are eager to do so...

Researchers are trying to create robots and develop designs for robot minds that won’t lead to undesirable consequences for the people they serve as was reveled in a technical paper published recently. Such research is being carried out at Alphabet Inc. unit Google, along with collaborators at...

Recent study display a reversal trend in the users of Snapchat and other social media. The Snapchat platform of picture messaging has been traditionally associated with youngsters’ “trendy way to communicate” among themselves. However, the older generation was kept out of this loop.  ...

Not far off is the time when parents will choose what child they want to conceive. The genome editing technologies were originally to correct genes, causing the development of serious diseases. Today, however, it is clear that sphere of application of genetic tools could be much wider. If someday...

Now the messenger app of Facebook will remind you of your friends’ birthdays, display latest messages, disclose the online availability of friends along with many new features. More than “900-million” users are on “Facebook's Messenger standalone app” which has undergone a “redesign”. The said app...

Sweden’s paper-based and time consuming processing of real estate transactions will now be transformed and streamlined by a smart contracts application developed by the coloured coins technology innovated by ChromaWay.   This new system that would be tested out in Sweden would be specified...