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Facebook jumps in users and revenue despite battle with FTC, with 2.4 billion users in Q2

Despite ongoing legal battles with the US government, including a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust investigation, Facebook has continued to add users and increase revenue, according to the social media giant’s financial report for Q2 2019. On average for June, Facebook’s daily active users (DAUs) increased eight percent year-over-year to 1.59bn. Monthly active users hit 2.41bn as of the end of June, an increase of eight percent year-over-year.

Google’s Nest Hub Max is all set for its grand launch soon

LinkedIn is all set for migrating workload to Microsoft Azure

NASA engineers install legs and wheels called ‘Mobility suspension’ on Mars 2020 rover

Elon Musk's Brain Chip implant technology

Elon Musk’s Neuralink unveils brain-chip implant technology, to seek human trials in 2020

To help paralyzed people control devices and empower people with brain disorders enrich their lives, Elon Musk-led startup Neuralink has revealed tiny brain ‘threads’ in a chip which is long-lasting, usable at home and has the potential to replace cumbersome devices currently used as brain-machine interfaces.

India’s indigenous rocket launcher ”Bahubali” puts Chandrayaan-2 into orbit

India’s second lunar mission was on track as it’s ”Babubali” GSLV rocket successfully put the moon spacecraft — Chandrayaan-2 — into the orbit in a copybook style on Monday afternoon.

Chest X ray analysis with AI for Long term Mortality Prediction

Chest X-ray data is enough for AI to predict long-term mortality

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tool that can harvest information in chest X-rays to predict long-term mortality.

Why are VR headsets said to be failed technology, when it comes to wooing the masses

Having been around for nearly five years now, Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are yet to find adoption among the masses.

Indian-origin scientists develop AI system to detect and avoid yourself from ‘deepfakes’

At a time when deepfake videos become a new threat to users’ privacy, a team of Indian-origin researchers has developed Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven deep neural network that can identify manipulated images at the pixel level with high precision.

Twitter on Context for unavailable tweets

Twitter to soon explain the unavailability of certain tweets from the forum

Twitter says it will soon offer users more context about unavailable tweets, rather than just presenting a wall of “This Tweet is unavailable” notices. TechCrunch notes that the feature should cut down on confusion when you’re trying to read a Twitter conversation, only to find that half of its tweets are missing for reasons that aren’t obvious.