What every business should know about chatbots
Defining a modern chatbot depends on the ability it has. According to SnatchBot, a market leader in this space, it is a computer program that is capable of talking to users through a variety of messaging apps – and even by voice. Chatbots are nothing new – but the way …
Three-quarters of French may quit Facebook
It also found that a third of respondents were considering quitting Twitter account, 22 percent Snapchat and 19 percent Instagram. Seventy-four percent said they do not trust Twitter and Snapchat and 72 percent Instagram.Only 22 percent of the French population use Twitter, 21 percent Instagram and 18 … Read More
Snapchat struggles leave staff worried for jobs, report claims
One source even went as far to say: “As far as job security, there's a reason Snapchat is nowhere in my title.” Overblown? In contrast, other sources have downplayed the outcry, saying that some volatility is to be expected after any redesign. Others said that the changes gave them more …
School-toilet ‘rape list’: Student who saw list on Snapchat says boys urgently need consent training
By Olivia Kelleher. A female student in Davis College in Mallow, Co Cork where a "rape list" was posted on toilets has said that teenage boys need to urgently address issues such as consent so that they learn that sexual assault is something that you don't joke about. Yesterday, it …
Russia bans Telegram online messaging service
A court in Moscow issued a ban on Telegram on Friday after the online messaging service refused to hand Russian secret services access to its users' encrypted data. Moscow's Tagansky region court approved a request from Roskomnadzor, the Russian media regulator, for Telegram to be blocked in … Read More
Telegram: Russia orders app blocked; pirated content routinely stored on app’s servers, claims report
A few weeks ago, a court ordered messaging app Telegram to hand over encryption keys for messages to Russia's KGB successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB). Telegram refused, and a court has now ordered that access to the service be blocked. This was expected, but there's one 'you couldn't … Read …
Telegram will use built-in systems to bypass ban in Russia: CEO
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The chief executive of the Telegram messenger service, Pavel Durov, said on Friday the application will use built-in systems to circumnavigate a ban in Russia imposed by a court earlier on Friday. He said on his page in the VK social network that he still cannot guarantee …
Keith ‘Choppa’ Green of Ryde is a Youtube sensation millions are watching make cakes
Keith Green has a successful You Tube channel called Cakes by Choppa. Picture: John Appleyard. Cake decorating is often fiddly work. Picture: John Appleyard Mr Green has got millions of views on Youtube. Picture: John Appleyard. “She had no drawing ability, so I'd be one to draw the templates. Read …
Women in a Maharashtrian village are using YouTube to take entrepreneurial steps, with help from …
Meenakshi Sonkatare has made Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 since the past eight months by making over 30 quilts which she learned to make by watching YouTube videos. She is collaborating with local shop owners to increase her sales. Neha Barjatya, chief of Internet Saathi, accounts the barrier that they … …
GIF Searching Finally Comes To … LinkedIn Messenger?
Tenor, a GIF platform Google purchased not too long ago, is now part of LinkedIn's messaging service. The integration also allows users to send and receive GIFs, and also access trending GIFs. In the future, they'll also be able to create a custom stream displaying most-used GIFs within the LinkedIn … …