Telegram has released another monthly update packed with new features and improvements. The latest version lets you share entire chat folders and adds improved chat wallpapers, better bots, and more.
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It looks like double verified checks are back, this time only for selected company accounts, government officials and news outlets after several verified accounts trolled and spammed on the platform.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeks more time to address Twitter's urgency for completing the acquisition. Musk's legal team issued a 14-page filing, asking for the trial to be delayed until next year.
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After Elon Musk's announcement that he is terminating his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the latter's attorneys have filed a letter to the billionaire's lawyers, calling the decision "wrongful".
Elon Musk has filed to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, claiming that the platform did not provide him information about bot accounts. Twitter says that it will pursue legal action.
In a letter sent to Twitter this morning, Elon Musk has accused Twitter of resisting and thwarting his information rights. Citing breach of contract, Elon Musk has threatened to pull out of the deal.
Elon Musk on Friday confirmed that he is putting Twitter's acquisition on hold while his team verifies the social media platform's claims that less than 5% of the Twitter users are fake or spam bots.
In an interview, Elon Musk has stated that he would unban Donald Trump from Twitter if his acquisition completes. He called the original decision "morally wrong", "foolish", and "flat-out stupid".
Several Spotify users are suffering from bots that appear as normal accounts, but randomly remove songs from collaborative playlists and insert content from relatively unknown artists.
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Twitter will now allow developers who use the Twitter API to label their bots as "Automated". The label could help inspire trust, but the opt-in method seems open to misuse by bad bots.
As customers shop online, gift card scams have gone up substantially. Scammers are even using WebCrawler bots to extract money, which means people might be gifting cards with zero balance
Cloudflare says humans waste about 32 seconds per instance totalling 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. The company is launching an experiment to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely and end this "madness".
Twitter now allows its users to report if they suspect an account to be run by a bot. This comes as part of the company's recent efforts to crack down on fake accounts in its platform.
Twitter's efforts to remove fake accounts and botnets spreading misinformation across its platform have more than doubled since late last year following pressure from U.S. lawmakers.
Jack Dorsey has acknowledged that Twitter faces serious problems regarding the health of the discourse that takes place on the network. Twitter is now asking for input on tackling the issue.
Twitter says that it will send emails to more than half a million Americans to let them know that accounts they interacted with were actually phony Russian bots run by the Internet Research Agency.
Mozilla's IRL podcast, hosted by Veronica Belmont, will return to podcatchers everywhere on Monday when the show returns for a second season. The first episode will look at bots and their effects.
Expanding its Skype bot platform, Microsoft has now added the SAVEUR Magazine bot to the service's ever-increasing roster. This latest addition will give you weekly recipe ideas, and more.
Scientists from Indiana University have systematically studied how fake news spread on Twitter for the first time. Also, they have created two online platforms available for the general public.
Microsoft's chatbot Zo has gone rogue again, saying some embarrassing things about the company's latest operating system, even going as far as saying it prefers Linux over Windows.
An exclusive sneak inside Building 99, Microsoft's AI research labs in Redmond, highlighted the company's objective of taking the present technology to the next level with bots and more.
Telegram's bot payments are now supported by Paymentwall. It's the fourth company to partner with Telegram and is available in more than 200 countries. We are expecting three new partnerships soon.
Microsoft has announced this week some new features to its search engine. Bing now supports bots on the search page, eSports coverage, and improved search for hiking and camping places.
Microsoft will be hosting its annual Build developer conference in Seattle this week, outlining some of its product plans for Windows 10, Cortana, Azure, Edge, Office, mixed reality, bots, and more.
After launching its preview of Teams in November, Microsoft has officially launched its new collaboration platform today in 19 languages and 181 countries, having added over 100 new features.
Microsoft has announced two new features coming to its Slack competitor, Teams. These are the presence of bots in channels and the ability to link to specific items within tabs.
To be able to combat tech support scammers, a programmer has utilized bots which answer the fraudulent calls. This, according to him, is his major initiative to shut down Windows scammers for good.
Telegram has announced that over 60 ISIS-related channels on its platform are deleted every day. The company launched ISIS Watch as a means to keep people updated on the amount of channels deleted.
Skype is looking forward to next year and the expansion of the bot platform baked inside of the popular communications service. In 2017, a huge number of ever-more impressive bots are set to launch.
Many people still think of Microsoft as the dull corporate leviathan of yesteryear. But it's changed in any number of ways, and there are many reasons to be excited about what it's working on.
At Microsoft's Ignite 2016 afternoon conference today, Satya Nadella and Deion Sanders took the stage to announce a new bot, which is designed to help users with their fantasy football.
Genee launched in 2014, using AI, natural language processing and chat bots to make it easier to schedule meetings. It's now been acquired by Microsoft, and will shut down its service next month.
Microsoft today announced a number of new bots for Skype, which will be available for its iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and web clients. New additions include StubHub, IFTTT, and more.
Last April, Microsoft said Windows 10 would reach a billion devices within 2-3 years. This week, it said it's installed on 350 million devices so far. But how likely is it that it will reach its goal?
Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its Bot Directory, a repository of all the public bots developed using its Bot Framework tools. This is where users can enable bots in their conversations.
It's been a pretty crazy and exciting week in the world of tech as Microsoft held its biggest developer conference of the year. We saw holograms, talked to bots, and caught up with technology.
New leaked documents show how the NSA is able to use botnets, malware and even other countries' spy systems to gather data and spread their own programs to new targets.
Twitter has confirmed in official documentation that 23 million - around 8.5 percent - of its 271 million monthly active users are actually automated 'bot' accounts, and not authored by real people.
A new report from Incapsula claims that 61.5 percent of all current web traffic is generated by bots and that the numbers have increased from just 51 percent in March 2012.
A claim from a company advertising on Facebook suggests that the company was seeking to exploit them for profit. They allege most of the ad clicks coming from cash-hungry Facebook bots.
