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Facebook teams with rightwing Daily Caller in factchecking program

Site co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson has promoted misinformation and is known for pro-Trump content

 The Fox News host Tucker Carlson founded the Daily Caller. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Facebook’s controversial factchecking program is partnering with the Daily Caller, a rightwing website that has pushed misinformation and is known for pro-Trump content.

The social network said Wednesday it had added CheckYourFact.com, which is part of the Daily Caller, as one of its US media partners in an initiative that has faced growing backlash from journalists and internal problems. The collaboration was first reported by Axios.

Factcheckers in the program are tasked with debunking potential false stories on Facebook to help stop their spread, but some journalists have said the effort hasn’t been effective, and one of its major American partners, Snopes.com, cut ties earlier this year.

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Software- und IT-Services-Markt wächst um fünf Prozent

Der Markt für Software und IT-Services wird dieses Jahr in Deutschland mit einem Plus von knapp fünf Prozent leicht unter dem bisherigen Wachstum bleiben. Das berichtet die Teknowlogy Group (vormals Ardour Consulting, BARC, CXP und PAC).
  • 35 Prozent des Projektgeschäfts (Consulting und Systemintegration) entfallen auf die Industrie, insbesondere auf Automobilbauer
  • Wichtigste Vendoren sind Salesforce, SAP und Microsoft (SaaS) sowie Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft und Google (IaaS/PaaS)
  • Investitionen in neue Systeme, die auf eine hypothetische Umsatzsteigerung abzielen oder neue Geschäftsmodelle ermöglichen sollen, werden in Frage gestellt oder vertagt

 

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Intel says it will exit the 5G phone business as Apple and Qualcomm strike multiyear deal

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Intel this evening says it has decided to leave the 5G mobile modem market to focus its efforts more on 4G and 5G modems for PCs and smart home devices, as well as its broader 5G infrastructure business. The announcement comes just hours after Apple and Qualcomm struck a surprise settlement in the two companies’ ongoing patent infringement and royalties dispute related to Apple’s use of Qualcomm modems in the iPhone.

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Unabhängiger Branchenanalyst positioniert IPsoft als Leader in Marktbericht ‚Standalone Chatbots for IT Operations‘

Amelia von IPsoft als einzige Lösung in allen 10 Kriterien mit „differenziert“ bewertet

 

 

IPsoft, der weltweit führende Anbieter im Bereich Enterprise-KI (www.ipsoft.com), wurde in der Marktstudie ‚The Forrester New Wave(TM): Standalone Chatbots for IT Operations, Q2 2019‘ als Leader eingestuft. Für den jetzt veröffentlichten Bericht wurden die Lösungen von acht ausgewählten Unternehmen analysiert. Forrester New Wave befand außerdem, dass IPsoft das Anbieterfeld mit stabilen Chatbot-Features für IT-Operations anführt und die beste Wahl für Unternehmen ist, die sich auf die Einführung kognitiver Technologien festlegen wollen.

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KRACH UNTER TECH-RIESEN : Showdown zwischen Apple und Qualcomm

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In Kalifornien stehen sich die Technikkonzerne in einem spektakulären Patentprozess gegenüber. Auch Tim Cook und sein Widerpart werden wohl aussagen.

Die amerikanischen Technologiegiganten Apple und Qualcomm liefern sich seit mehr als zwei Jahren einen erbitterten Rechtsstreit um Patente. Er wird auf mehreren Kontinenten ausgetragen und hat auch Deutschland erfasst. Und er hat sogar dazu geführt, dass zwischenzeitlich Verkaufsverbote für Apples iPhone-Handys ausgesprochen wurden.

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Neue Zensurvorwürfe: Wieder scharfe Kritik an Apple von US-Politikern

Es sei „eine Schande“, dass der iPhone-Konzern die aggressive Zensur der chinesischen Regierung stütze, so ein US-Senator.

 

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Apples Verhalten in China ist erneut in die Schusslinie von US-Kongressmitgliedern geraten: Es sei „eine Schande, mit ansehen zu müssen, wie eine von Amerikas einflussreichsten Firmen die aggressive Zensur der chinesischen Regierung stützt, erklärten der republikanische US-Senator Marco Rubio in einer Stellungnahme auf Nachfrage von The Verge. Für Zugang zum chinesischen Markt würde Apple „die Augen vor der eigenen Mitschuld verschließen“. Rubio hatte Apple schon nach dem Rauswurf von VPN-Apps aus dem App Store China Ende 2017 scharf kritisiert.

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AWS first choice of firms adopting cloud business intelligence

The study focuses on the perceived benefits and barriers for cloud BI, the importance of cloud BI, and current and planned usage.
AWS first choice of firms adopting cloud business intelligence

 

According to Dresner Advisory Services’ annual report on cloud computing, sixty-percent of organizations adopting cloud BIrank Amazon Web Services first, and 85 percent rank AWS first or second.

Forty-three percent choose Microsoft Azure first and 69 percent pick Azure first or second. Google Cloud closely trails Azure as the first choice among users but trails more widely after that. IBM Bluemix is the first choice of 12 percent of organizations responding in 2019.

The report focuses on end-user deployment trends and attitudes toward cloud computing and business intelligence (BI), defined as the technologies, tools, and solutions that rely on one or more cloud deployment models.

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Amazon, Microsoft chosen to compete for Pentagon cloud computing contract

The selection leaves Oracle Corp and IBM Corp out of the competition for the contract for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI. The contract is part of a broad modernization of Pentagon information technology systems.

WASHINGTON – Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp have been selected to continue competing for Pentagon cloud computing services as part of a contract that could be worth some $10 billion, the U.S. Department of Defense said on Wednesday.

The selection leaves Oracle Corp and IBM Corp out of the competition for the contract for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI. The contract is part of a broad modernization of Pentagon information technology systems.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Generate Amazing Images — What Does That Mean For Humans?

Turns out after they’ve been trained on enormous datasets, algorithms can not only tell what a picture is such as knowing a cat is a cat but can also generate absolutely original images. The artificial intelligence that makes this possible has matured significantly in recent years and in some applications is very proficient, but in other ways, still has a long way to go.

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Generate Amazing Images – What Does The Mean For Humans?
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AI Recognizes What an Image Is

It’s taken two decades for computer scientists to train and develop machines that can “see” the world around them—another example of an everyday skill humans take for granted yet one that is quite challenging to train a machine to do.

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Huawei is ‘open’ to selling 5G chips to Apple for iPhones, marking a big shift in strategy

  • Huawei is “open” to selling its 5G chips and other silicon to rival smartphone maker Apple, the company’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, told CNBC.
  • Apple has not yet released a 5G-ready iPhone, and Huawei could be a potential vendor for 5G modems.
  • Huawei has used its chips exclusively in its own smartphones, and selling them to Apple would mark a significant change in strategy for the company — and a potential challenge to Qualcomm and Intel.

Huawei CEO: We’re ‘open’ to selling 5G chips to Apple

 

Huawei is “open” to selling high-speed 5G chips and other silicon to rival smartphone maker Apple, marking a significant shift in the Chinese tech giant’s thinking toward its own intellectual property.

The world’s largest networking equipment maker has been in the consumer market for a relatively short amount of time with its own-brand smartphones, but it has quickly risen to become the third-largest vendor by market share.

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