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Facebook, Twitter join forces for ‘First Draft’ initiative

Two bigwig social media companies Facebook and Twitter have joined with several global news organizations for the ‘First Draft’ project -- an initiative backed by Google and Google Labs -- in an evident effort to “improve” the quality of the news content they offer.

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EBay launches new online smartphone trade-in program – ‘Quick Sale’

Online auction giant eBay has revealed that it is launching a new online trade-in program for smartphones. Under the new program, called ‘Quick Sale,’ eBay will purchase people’s old-generation smartphones, thus sparing them the bother of auctioning off the smartphones on their own.

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Google: Chrome users will soon be warned when they access non-secure websites

On Thursday, web search giant Google announced via a post published to the Google Security Blog that the company’s Chrome browser will soon start issuing a warning to users when they access non-secure websites.

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Apple files patent for ‘Dynamic Fit Adjustment for Wearable Electronic Devices’

Tech giant Apple has filed a patent for a kind of Apple Watch smartwatch which has the capability to automatically tighten itself around the wearer’s wrist, so as to give it a perfect fit.

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Electric fans may not provide relief for some elderly in extreme heat

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, electric fans may be less effective in providing relief to elderly in extreme heat situations. They may experience elevated heartbeat rates and rise in core temperatures while using electric fans in extreme heat than compared to having no fan.

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AT&T and Qualcomm to test drones on commercial 4G LTE wireless networks

In a joint statement released on Tuesday, AT&T and Qualcomm said that they have teamed up to test drones out on commercial 4G LTE wireless networks.

According to the joint statement, AT&T and Qualcomm have partnered to test hoe the functioning of drones can be safe and more secure on commercial 4G LTE as well as on the imminent 5G networks.

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White House Arctic Initiative: 3D maps of Alaska released

Around a year back, President Barack Obama announced the White House Arctic Initiative and now, the researchers have come up with 3D maps for the whole State of Alaska.

Theinitiative was launched to support the efforts done tostudy the Arctic region, to involve the residents and to evolve such services,tools and products to improve the activitiesin the Polar region, Arctic.

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Stanford University releases first report of study into future of AI

The Stanford University for two years has been running a project called One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), which makes predictions about possible influence that artificial intelligence could have on human life in coming 30 years.

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