Facebook - itbusinessdirect

Flitto’s language data helps machine translation systems get more accurate

November 27, 2017 Dianne Jacobs

Artificial intelligence-powered translation is becoming an increasingly crowded category, with Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook all working on their own services. But tech still isn’t a match for professional human translations and machine-generated results are often hit-and-miss. One online translation service, Flitto, is now focused on providing other companies with the language data they need to train their machine translation programs. Headquartered in Seoul, Flitto launched in 2012 as a translation crowdsourcing platform. It still provides translation services, ranging from a mobile app to professional translators, for about 7.5 million…

Facebook making its workforce more diverse

August 4, 2017September 1, 2017

Diversity is core of business at Facebook. According to an update by the social media company, diversity enables them to build better products, make better decisions and help bring the world closer together. While most tech companies struggle to make their workplaces more diverse and less dominated by white and male employees, Facebook has managed to hire more women and minorities in the last year in almost every category it tracks. Of course, the improvements are still very incremental, but the improvements show that Facebook’s efforts, led by executive diversity…

Global Tech Websites unite to save Net Neutrality

July 12, 2017 Dianne Jacobs

Net neutrality is a principle about fairness on the Internet. It holds that no ISP should be able to unfairly manipulate your Internet usage or your experience of the Web, particularly in ways that harm other businesses. It means that ISPs don’t get to choose which data is sent more quickly, and which sites get blocked or throttled and who has to pay extra. About 200 internet companies and activist groups are coming together today to mobilize their users into opposing US government plans to scrap net neutrality protection. Facebook,…

Doctors warn against internet, gaming disorders in UAE

April 28, 2017 Dianne Jacobs

Medical professionals in the UAE are warning that addiction to smartphones and technology among young people can be as powerful as addiction to gambling and drugs, with its own host of health and psychological problems. In many developed nations – the UAE included – it isn’t uncommon to see young children on a tablet or smartphone, with their parents besides them seemingly oblivious to any potential health risks. “Mental health risks of increasing addiction to technology are clear and present,” said Dr Binu George, Consultant Paediatrician (paediatric neurodevelopment and neurodisability)…

Android O will make notification customization easier.

March 27, 2017 Dianne Jacobs

Android has never been well known for having the most user-friendly settings options. Google has rolled out the first developer preview of Android O, the next version of its Android operating system. With Google’s new OS, users be able to customize ringtones, alarm, and notification settings from the phone itself with files that have been downloaded from the web, email, or a cloud storage service. The new OS is still in early stages and has been made available in the form of first developer preview for Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P,…