Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options and other top stories.

  • Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options

    Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options
    Facebook is taking another bite of the outside Internet by turning its Instant Articles format into an open platform any publisher can use starting April 12th. Yet the question remains whether Instant Articles are good for publishers, or something detrimental they’ll have to adopt or be left behind. Since the launch in May, Facebook had worked directly with partnered publishers to onboard them to the option that makes their sites load faster inside Facebook’s app rather than in a web browser. ..
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  • Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options

    Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options
    Facebook is taking another bite of the outside Internet by turning its Instant Articles format into an open platform any publisher can use starting April 12th. Yet the question remains whether Instant Articles are good for publishers, or something detrimental they’ll have to adopt or be left behind. Since the launch in May, Facebook had worked directly with partnered publishers to onboard them to the option that makes their sites load faster inside Facebook’s app rather than in a web browser. ..
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  • Humans and Neanderthals may have interbred 50000 years earlier than previously thought

    Humans and Neanderthals may have interbred 50000 years earlier than previously thought
    Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) One hundred thousand years ago, research suggests, a group of Homo sapiens — isolated from their own kind — came across a group of Neanderthals. The rest, as they say, is history — and the proof of their love affair has just been uncovered in ancient DNA. It wasn't long ago that Neanderthals had a universal reputation for being hulking, idiotic cousins — brutal bea..
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  • Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets

    Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets
    When Leap Motion was announced in 2012, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. A little black box that plugged into a computer, it could recognize hand gestures and translate them into interface commands — to let you "do things on your computer just like you do them in real life." But the company was trying to sell people on something they’d never asked for, for use with a machine they’d already been interacting with for years. Then came virtual reality. When people first started usin..
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  • Court order in San Bernardino case could force Apple to jeopardize phone security, experts warn

    Court order in San Bernardino case could force Apple to jeopardize phone security, experts warn
    Cyber security experts warned Wednesday that the battle over a court order requiring Apple to help the FBI access encrypted data on a cellphone belonging to the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino will have far-reaching consequences for the tech industry.The dispute, the latest chapter in a long-brewing battle between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., over the tech industry's role in combating terror plots, will now shift from a philosophical disagreement to a very real courthouse ..
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  • Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Improves Instagram's Security

    Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Improves Instagram's Security
    Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has introduced 2FA, or two-factor authentication for Instagram users. Shares of Facebook were trading more than 3% above Tuesday's closing price at the time of writing. The feature will not be available for all of Instagram's ...
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  • IBM To Hold $5 Million Watson Artificial Intelligence Contest

    IBM To Hold $5 Million Watson Artificial Intelligence Contest
    IBM has a new plan to popularize its Watson cognitive computing technology. The business technology giant said on Tuesday at the TED conference in Vancouver, British Columbia that it will hold a $5 million competition for developers and researchers who can come up with something revolutionary while using Watson as the underlying technology. Detailed guidelines of what IBM is looking for will come out in mid-May. IBM ibm is putting on the competition in conjunction with the non-profit X P..
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  • Ancient amber locks floral ancestor of modern plants frozen in time

    Ancient amber locks floral ancestor of modern plants frozen in time
    Scientists discovered a new flower species in a unique place. Two flowers were trapped in ancient amber. The blossoms, estimated to be 20 to 30 million years old, are extinct relatives of many flowering plants still alive today. With some 80,000 different species, the "asterid" family make up about one-third of the diversity of flowering plants across the globe.The new, amber-clad member of the family is described in a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Plants. This new flower will be..
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  • Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S7 Rumored to Feature Water Resistant Design, Pressure-Sensitive Screen

    Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S7 Rumored to Feature Water Resistant Design, Pressure-Sensitive Screen
    Samsung is expected to unveil its newest smartphones at Mobile World Congress on February 21, and ahead of their debut date, several leaks have hinted at the specs we can expect to see in the flagship devices of Apple's main competitor. Like Apple, and continuing with its own trend of dual releases, Samsung will unveil two new smartphones: the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge with a curved display. Both devices look similar to the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge, as seen in a render created b..
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  • Twitter Partners with GIPHY & Riffsy for Native GIFs - Android Headlines

    Twitter Partners with GIPHY & Riffsy for Native GIFs - Android Headlines
    We reported a few weeks ago that Twitter was A/B testing a dedicated GIF button in their Android app. It only appeared for a few users for a short time. However, today the company announced that dedicated GIF support is now available on both their ...
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  • Google launches feature for non-Gmail accounts to use Gmail's best tools on Android

    Google launches feature for non-Gmail accounts to use Gmail's best tools on Android
    Non-Gmail users will now get access to some of Gmail's best features through Android's Gmail app, Google announced on Wednesday. For the last year, Google has allowed users to access email from other providers, like Yahoo! Mail or Outlook.com, in the Gmail app on Android. Now, non-Gmail users will get "Gmailify" features -- heavily expanding the set of tools. According to Google, Gmailify links your existing email account to Gmail so that you get spam protection, inbox organization and even G..
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