With Hackathons and Artificial Intelligence, Rajasthan Goes Digital to Bridge Rural-Urban Divide …
Three 21-year-olds from Jaipur Engineering College, who were participating in the marathon, has developed "anti-depressant chat bots" for various Rajasthan government department … “These anti-depressant chat bots does not require a separate web browser and can be activated via any browser. Read More
How Chatbots Are Helping Nonprofits Do More for Less
The rise of these platforms has spurred a meteoric rise in the use of chatbots, computer programs used to exchange messages that feel like conversations between people. If you've ever had an online conversation with a service representative on a company website, chances are you were talking to a … Read …
Zurich UK pilots new chatbot for quicker claims handling
Zurich UK has launched a six-week chatbot pilot, designed to help customers submit claims quicker and more efficiently. 'Zara' is a new chatbot system which helped Zurich log claims during the latest nationwide snowfall and the problems which cames afterwards. Through 'Zara,' Zurich says the … Read More
Snapchat introduces a morbidly cute new Cuphead lens
Snap has brought a retro look to its lens feature, unveiling a new lens on Snapchat that places animations of characters from the game Cuphead on your screen. When the lens is selected in the app, Cuphead and Mugman appear and start shooting when a person enters the frame. If …
Unilever’s Lynx invests more ad budget in content as ‘reach’ becomes a meaningless metric
For the latter, it partnered with Vice and Snapchat to create dedicated social content that Strubel claimed delivered a 21% increase in engagement rates and the highest ever "swipe up rates" for Vice on Snapchat. And it's these kind of results that have led Strubel to reconfigure the brand's ad …
Snapchat’s new Lens Studio tools make AR creation easier
Snap has teamed up with a handful of partners to create new Lenses and new tools for the Lens Studio, which can make designing AR effects a simpler process. One of its new partners is StudioMDHR, developer of popular run and gun indie video game Cuphead. The companies created a …
Ethereum and Stellar? Mobile Messenger Kik Embraces Two Blockchains
While it might sound unlikely, social messaging app Kik has announced it'll be doing just that with its "kin" token, which allowed the company to raise $98 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in September. After some back and forth about which blockchain the company wanted to host its …
Blockchain Growing Pains Show There’s No Ledger to Rule Them All
Messaging app developer Kik Interactive, which raised about $100 million last year to launch services on the Ethereum blockchain, discovered that the ledger … but there are some inherent limitations to consumer adoption,” Tanner Philp, Kik's director of corporate development, said in a phone interview. Read More
Police: Former Mount Washington Residence burglarized
Two people are accused of burglarizing the Mount Washington Residence, a former assisted-living residence that has been closed since 2017. Daniel M. Burr, 32, and Nathan R. Schultz, 35, both of 902 Vine St., are each charged in Eau Claire County Court with felony counts of burglary and possession … Read …
How to use My People to multi-task with Skype and Telegram on Windows 10
It does integrate with Skype and (via the Unigram X app), Telegram at the moment. With My People and either of these two apps, users can now chat with multiple users at the same time, approximating multi-window functionality, a feature not offered by either app on its own. This, in …