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The phone call is not dead, it’s just evolving with time: Here’s how

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The phone call is not dead, it’s just evolving with time: Here’s how Here’s a crazy idea: What if people started using their smartphones to actually speak to each other again? Current Affairs :At the point when scientists at Yahoo Labs needed to become familiar with how youngsters use video visit, they asked 16 adolescents in the more noteworthy San Francisco Bay Area to keep a journal for about fourteen days. The subjects jumped at the chance to perform multiple tasks, tidying up their rooms and looking through online life, while conversing with companions. Talks once in a while endured practically throughout the night—adolescents would go down for supper with their families, just to return upstairs and resume the discussion. “They would turn on a video visit and after that simply toss their telephone some spot,” says Yahoo chief research partner Frank Bentley. “They’d essentially use it as open sound on the grounds that the camera would simply be pointing at the roof.” ...

Fake news in elections: Now tip off WhatsApp about it using ‘tipline’

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Fake news in elections: Now tip off WhatsApp about it using ‘tipline’ People in India can submit misinformation or rumours to the ‘Checkpoint Tipline on WhatsApp’ at +91-9643-000-888 Technology :   WhatsApp  on Tuesday propelled an administration in  India  where more than 200 million clients in the nation can tip off phony news, falsehood and gossipy tidbits identified with races. Propelled by PROTO, a media skilling start-up, the tipline will help make a database of gossipy tidbits to ponder deception amid decisions for Checkpoint – an exploration venture dispatched by WhatsApp, the  Facebook -possessed organization said in an announcement. Individuals in India can submit falsehood or gossipy tidbits to the “Checkpoint Tipline on WhatsApp” at +91-9643-000-888. Burrow Deeper Media and Meedan, who have recently chipped away at deception related activities around the globe, are helping PROTO to build up the check and research structures for India. ...

Facebook expands fact-checking programme in India to counter fake news

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Facebook expands the fact-checking programme in India to counter fake news   Aditi Mehta     Uncategorized     February 12, 2019   1 Minute Facebook said once a story is rated as false, the platform was able to reduce its distribution by 80% Facebook  Monday said it hosts extended its third-gathering certainty checking program in India, including names like India Today Group, Factly and Fact Crescendo to the list, as the interpersonal interaction goliath hopes to battle the spread of “counterfeit news” on its stage in front of general races this year. Aside from inspecting articles, the US-based organization has additionally furnished checkers with apparatuses to survey photographs and recordings to “help recognize and make a move against more kinds of falsehood”. “Beginning today, India Today Group, Vishvas.news, Factly, Newsmobile, and Fact Crescendo, every one of whom are affirmed through a non-divided International Fact-Checking N...