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Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner's ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has put tech companies under scrutiny LATEST NEWS :  In the fall of 2010, the Russian billionaire investor Yuri Milner took the stage for a Q and A at a technology conference in San Francisco. Mr. Milner, whose holdings have included major stakes in Facebook and Twitter, is known for expounding on everything from the future of social media to the frontiers of space travel. But when someone asked a question that had swirled around his Silicon Valley ascent — Who were his investors? — he did not answer, turning repeatedly to the moderator with a look of incomprehension. Now, leaked documents examined by The New York Times offer a partial answer: Behind Mr. Milner’s investments in Facebook and Twitter were hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kremlin. Obscured by a maze of offshore shell companies, the Twitter investment wa...

Facebook is collaborating with a small group of publishers across the US and Europe Facebook is finally testing a paywall in its Instant Articles feature -- beginning with Android and not iOS devices -- in partnership with a small group of publishers across the US and Europe. Facebook will support the subscription-based news product in Instant Articles for both metered models (starting with a uniform meter at 10 articles) and "freemium" models (the publisher controls which articles are locked). "This is a direct result of the work we're doing through the Facebook Journalism Project. We're listening to news publishers all over the world to better understand their needs and goals," the social media giant said in a blog post late on Thursday. In July, Campbell Brown, the head of the company's news partnerships, said Facebook will launch a subscription-based news product with initial tests beginning in October. To begin with, publish...

Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people, rivaling the growth of other platform innovations LATEST NEWS : India's Aadhaar   identity   system   opponents   the   boom   of   different   platform   innovations   like   home windows , Android or   facebook , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has   said . Nadella, in his   book   'Hit Refresh', which   changed into   launched   for the duration of   the continued   Microsoft Ignite 2017   conference , has praised India's   leap   forward   in the   digital   and technological   area . "Aadhaar now has scaled to over   one thousand million   humans , rivaling the   increase   of   different   platform   improvements which includes   windows , Android or   fb , the 50- yr - vintage   wrote in his   ebook   that hit the   book ...

Initially, AI agents used English to converse with each other but they later created a new language LATEST NEWS : Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language defying the codes provided. According to a report in Tech Times on Sunday, the social media giant had to pull the plug on the AI system that its researchers were working on "because things got out of hand". "The AI did not start shutting down computers worldwide or something of the sort, but it stopped using English and started using a language that it created," the report noted. Initially the AI agents used English to converse with each other but they later created a new language that only AI systems could understand, thus, defying their purpose. This led Facebook researchers to shut down the AI systems and then force them to speak to each...

Around 4 per cent of the time is spent on online shopping Indian  consumers spend as much as 28 hours a week on their smartphones , seven fold more than the time they end up spending in watching programmes on television as more users access internet on their mobile phone. According to the Mary Meeker report, released on Wednesday night, the delivery of  entertainment, education, healthcare and marketplaces is being reimagined in India with the mobile phone emerging as the primary device for access to consumers. In education sector, the report said education technology firm Byju’s has shown 15 per cent improvement in the quality of learning by accessing content on smartphones. In the healthcare sector, prices of laboratory tests have dropped by 50 per cent due to the aggregate inventory maintained by startups such as 1Mg and Portea. Customers made savings of around 20-30 per cent due to drug comparison on these platforms. As far as payments are concerned, the...

Currently, the new feature is being tested and is in beta stage After introducing the live status feature, WhatsApp is gearing up to add another interesting feature that will allow users to pin their favourite chats to the top on the chat screen of the app. The pin on the top feature is available on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, but none of the instant messenger platform offers this as of now. And, if WhatsApp introduces the pin on the top feature to it platform, the instant messenger would become the first one to bring out the feature. Read this: It was buffalo meat, not cow meat: Kajol clarifies after video gets trolled Currently, the new feature is being tested and is in beta stage. The final roll out will begin with a stable version of the app soon. The beta version of WhatsApp app can be downloaded from Google Playstore – if you are a developer or if you have enrolled yourself for beta releases from WhatsaApp. The pin on the top ...