AT&T customers in Corpus Christi lose service for hours
Customers with AT&T were out of service for a few hours Friday morning. Outages were reported in Victoria, Corpus Christi and Houston areas due to weather conditions, customer service representatives said. Service started to be restored for some customers in the Corpus Christi area about 11:30 a.m.. Read More
Chatbots are growing and growing as a new form of intangibles
Using chatbots for knowledge-driven tasks potentially changes every workflow. One target is to replace the data input form, which no one likes using. The data form is at least an 190+ year old instrument, apparently designed by Charles Babbage that is hardwired into conventional thinking. Indeed, the … Read More
To Deliver on AI’s Promise: Take the Brain from the Jar
However, the AI brain needs to be able to connect with enterprise systems if it wants to automate tasks. To illustrate this with an example, one company I've encountered has been working to create an AI-powered chatbot to help with customer support. However, they hit a brick wall because even …
Snapchat Rethinks Its Redesign
Instagram, for example, continues to poach Snapchat's best ideas. TechCrunch recently reported it is testing Nametags, a feature similar to Snap's Snapcodes, that allow users to create custom images to scan to make it easier to follow people. The site suspects that after Snap segregated celebrities and … Read More
Send One Snap & Reach All Your Friends with Groups
In case you missed it, you don't have to chat one-on-one anymore in Snapchat. The company added group chats back in 2016, and they are increasingly gaining new features such as video and audio chats, so communicating Snapchat-style with all your friends at once is better than it's ever been. …
Rauner campaign creates new Snapchat filter to commemorate Supreme Court reviewing …
As disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich, federal inmate 40892-424, has his request for retrial considered by the Supreme Court today, the Rauner campaign launched a Snapchat filter to commemorate the occasion. The filter allows users to take a selfie posing as Blagojevich and features his … Read More
Russia bans Telegram encrypted messaging app
Last year, Russia threatened to ban Telegram, after claiming the encrypted messaging app was used in a terror plot that left 16 people dead. Now, multiple news sources are reporting that Russia has made good on that threat. According to Russian news agency TASS, Reuters, The New York Times and … …
Why The Telegram Ban Is Good News For GRAM
Telegram, the messaging app preferred by the globetrotting anarcho-libertarians of the cryptocurrency world, has been shut down by the Russian government. Fans of the app will not be moved by the news. In fact, it's a plus. It proves its Russian founder, Pavel Durov, now living in self-imposed exile … Read …
“Privacy is not for sale,” Telegram founder says after being banned in Russia
A Russian court has paved the way for the government to block the Telegram messaging app over its creators' failure to provide authorities with access to users' encrypted messages, it was widely reported on Friday. Russia's state communications watchdog sought the ban last Friday in a lawsuit that … Read More
YouTube Is for Children
If I know anything about YouTube, it's that I don't know half as much about YouTube as most American kids do. The video platform is a vast repository of content meant for—and, often, created by—people who are not old enough to drive. From the innumerable toy-unboxing videos that apparently cater …