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Snapchat wants to Offer Games in its App

23Jul

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Snapchat wants to Offer Games in its App

Snapchat wants to Offer Games in its App. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is working on a platform on which users in the Snapchat app can play games, writes Dawn News. The company has already made agreements with one game publisher, writes news site The Information from an anonymous initiator. Snap would not make the games themselves but would allow third-party developers to add the games to the Snapchat app. The social medium wants to offer the games in a kind of app store. According to the tech website, it is not yet clear how heavy Snap bets on the gaming platform. A source from the news site suggested that the company is still in an experimental phase. The Information writes that Snap is working on the platform for over a year. By offering games, Snapchat can attract new...

Google Trains A Machine To Predict The Time Of Death

Google Trains a machine to Predict the Time of Death. Artificial intelligence from Google can predict how long to stay in a hospital, how likely it is for new admission and even when the patient will die. According to Google, the system is more accurate than current solutions and costs less time and effort, Bloomberg and Vital News reports Tuesday. The news agency relies on research results published by Google in collaboration with Stanford University in Nature. Hospitals already make risk analyses of patients themselves, but there is a lot of manual work involved. All available information must be entered correctly into the system, which would take 80 percent of the time of the full analysis. The artificial intelligence of Google, however, works by a neural network. As a resul...

CEOs Facebook And Microsoft Criticise Controversial US Immigration Policy

CEOs Facebook and Microsoft criticise controversial US Immigration Policy. The CEOs of tech giants Facebook and Microsoft are critical of American border policy, Why children are getting separated from their families, reports Forbes News. Both top executives endorsed this in messages to staff and users on Tuesday night. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on the US in a note to "stop this new policy promptly". Microsoft boss Satya Nadella sent an e-mail to staff, which he later also posted on LinkedIn. In this, he called the border policy "cruel and a form of abuse". Earlier this week, Microsoft already discarded the new border policy of the US. Indeed the tech company provides software for the border surveillance of the country. That cooperation is still ongoing. In recent wee...