Sunday, 29 April 2018

As controversy swirls, Facebook dials down the swagger on its developer conference

Type with your brain. “Hear” with your skin. And in the event of an emergency, here’s a helicopter to the rescue with some free internet access. The marquee announcements of last year’s F8 developer conference found Facebook at the peak of its ambition, as Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives sketched out a vision in which Facebook delivered bleeding-edge technology powered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and a thriving developer ecosystem.

Then the person leading the brain-typing and skin-hearing efforts quit the company after 18 months, the Cambridge Analytica scandal caused public trust in Facebook to plunge, and the company scrambled to shut down wide swathes of its developer platform. Plans to unveil a home speaker...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/29/17287794/facebook-f8-preview-2018-developer-conference-cambridge-analytica

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/as-controversy-swirls-facebook-dials.html

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