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Submission + - Facebook makes Messenger a platform, competing w other apps and email (medium.com)

Submitted by Steven Levy on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @01:39PM

Steven Levy writes: At Facebook's F8 developer conference, the ascension of the Messenger app was the major announcement. Messenger is no longer just a part of Facebook, but a standalone platform to conduct a wide variety of instant communications, not only with friends, but with businesses you may deal with as well. It will compete with other messaging services such as Snapchat, Line and even Facebook’s own WhatsApp by offering a dizzying array of features, many of them fueled by the limitless imagination and self-interest of thousands of outside software developers.

Submission + - Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain (medium.com)

Submitted by Steven Levy on Friday January 16, 2015 @10:29AM

Steven Levy writes: A deep dive into Google's AI effort. In 2006, Geoffrey Hinton made a breakthrough in neural nets that launched Deep Learning. Google is all-in, hiring Hinton, have its ace scientist Jeff Dean build the Google Brain, and buying the neuroscience-based general AI company DeepMind for $400. Here's how the push for scary-smart search work, from mouths of the key subjects.

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