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Visa and Facebook bring payments feature to WhatsApp in Brazil

Visa is working with Facebook on a new payments feature on WhatsApp in Brazil, the financial institution said in a statement.

Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t be ‘arbiters of truth’ after Trump threat — The Guardian

Founder Mark Zuckerberg told Fox News on Thursday that the company should step away from regulating online speech, writes Tom McCarthy. Here is the link:...

Facebook uses 1.5bn Reddit posts to create chatbot — BBC

"Blender" was trained using available public domain conversations which included 1.5 billion examples of human exchanges, says the report. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52532930

Using ‘radioactive data’ to detect if a data set was used for training — Facebook AI blog

Facebook has developed a technique to mark images in a data set; so that researchers can determine whether a particular machine learning model has...

Apple joins the FIDO Alliance to help develop and promote authentication standards — MacRumors

Apple has joined the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an open industry association whose mission is to develop and promote stronger authentication standards and...