Google, part of Alphabet Inc, is building a new mobile messaging application to better compete with rival services such as those offered by Facebook Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The new service would tap into Google's artificial intelligence know-how, integrating chatbots, or software programs that answer questions, inside a messaging app, the Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The new app will enable users to text friends or a chatbot, which will search the Web and other sources for information to answer a question. It is unclear when the service will be launched, or what it will be named, the report said. Popular messaging apps include Facebook's WhatsApp and Messenger services, and Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat, while Google has a service called Hangouts. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Source : http://goo.gl/D2lcV1 An algorithm that can look at your smartphone activity to tell if you are bored has been developed by researchers.
Researchers at Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain, looked at mobile activity, considering factors like the time since a user last had a call or text, the time of day, and how intensely they used the phone. They found that looking at this kind of data gave a reliable prediction of boredom as often as 83% of the time, MIT Technology Review reported. The researchers also sent bored smartphone users an alert to check out an article on BuzzFeed - which people who were judged to be bored clicked on more often than people who were not. |
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February 2018
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