Facebook is testing DeepFace, a face recognition program that is 97.5 per cent accurate February 10, 2015 Facebook wants to increase revenue by encouraging engagement, so it has invented DeepFace, a feature with a sinister name and the ability to recognise and tag a face in a photo with an accuracy rate of 97.25 per cent. This isn’t taking place in a far-off future: DeepFace is now being trailed in the US [...]
Tech firms’ confidence will help us build a UK Facebook or Google February 4, 2015 Tech City’s UK’s Tech Nation report today confirms what many of us in the tech sector have long known to be true: the UK’s digital businesses are flourishing and are set to become even more vital to our economy in the next few years. Fortune favours the brave, and we have the potential in this [...]
General Election 2015: Facebook’s voter registration reminder will prompt every single UK user to be on the electoral register for May February 4, 2015 The next thing you’ll see being shared by everyone you know on Facebook might come as a surprise. It won’t be a hilarious video, the latest meme, or your friends and families pictures, and anyone who is averse to politics should stay away from Facebook on Thursday. Every single British adult in the UK who [...]
Facebook smashes expectations with record revenue and number of active users January 28, 2015 Facebook has beaten expectations and reported revenue for the fourth quarter of $3.85bn. Revenue was expected to climb $3.8bn from $2.6bn the same time the previous year. Facebook has been on a winning streak after beating expectations last quarter on revenues and earnings. The social media giant's number of monthly active users also bust through [...]
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder down for over an hour but social media giant denies cyber-attack January 27, 2015 Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were left stranded without profiles to lurk, updates to post and photos to “like” this morning, as the social networks were down for around an hour. Even Tinder users were unable to get swiping with the dating app shut down by what Facebook say was a fault caused [...]
Video: Google’s Eric Schmidt, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella at Davos 2015 January 22, 2015 On day two of this year's biggest gathering of world leaders, the focus moved to tech. During one session Google chairman Eric Schmidt joined Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella to discuss the future of the digital economy, and whether we have what is needed to ensure a thriving, open [...]
This week you’ve failed at your new year’s resolutions – and Facebook knows about it January 21, 2015 The third week of January is the time most people begin to flake out of their new year's resolutions, it turns out. And to make it that little bit worse, Facebook is silently judging you as you fail. We all know the routine: you start the year full of gusto, enthusiastically checking into the gym [...]
Deloitte: Facebook added $6.6bn to the UK economy in 2014 January 20, 2015 Facebook added $227bn (£149bn) to the global economy in 2014, according to a Deloitte and Touche report commissioned by the social media giant. Although Facebook only generated revenue of $12bn (£7.9bn) in the financial year, the report calculates all the economic activity “enabled” by the social media platform. These include businesses with pages [...]
Elon Musk’s space internet: How we could soon have Facebook friends on Mars January 19, 2015 Ten years from now, we could be exchanging Facebook messages and tweets with people on Mars. Billionaire investor and inventor Elon Musk has come up with an idea to take the world wide web to a galactic level by setting up a vast network of satellites far out in space. Some 4,000 of [...]
David Cameron wants Twitter and Facebook to help intelligence agencies track down dangerous people January 15, 2015 Later today, Prime Minister David Cameron will try to persuade US President Barack Obama of the need for more cooperation between intelligence agencies and US tech firms like Twitter and Facebook. He will say that public safety is at stake, and that new laws regarding communication via social media platforms should be imposed [...]