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Snapchat mental health feature to provide interventions to vulnerable users

Julie Campbell
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The Here For You tool will offer users with applicable content from experts in mental wellness. A new Snapchat mental health tool is launching. It is called Here For You. It will offer users “safety resources” from mental health experts if a user conducts a search for certain sensitive topics. Among the search subjects that can trigger the feature include depression, anxiety, bullying and suicide. The company announced the launch of the Snapchat mental health tool earlier this week. The goal is to support its users during vulnerable times in…

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Elmo Intelligent Motion Control Technologies is driving the RASSOR robot

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Elmo Intelligent Motion Control Technologies, a designer of servo drives, advanced network motion controllers & complete motion control solutions for motors, develops motion control solutions for a vast range of modern applications. By combining control algorithms with digital hardware, Elmo’s servo drives and motion controllers minimize a machine’s complexity while maximizing its efficiency and rate of production. This means more powerful machines available in smaller and more lightweight packages, ideal for space exploration as well as a vast range of terrestrial applications. Why NASA chose Elmo servo drives? NASA selected…

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WhatsApp users now total over 2 billion, active monthly

Sam Lambert
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This figure is around half a billion short of parent company Facebook’s own monthly figures. The number of WhatsApp users has now risen above the 2 billion mark, for those who are active on a monthly basis, said C.E.O. Will Cathcart in a Wall Street Journal interview. This is the first time the Facebook owned app has revealed its user numbers in about two years. Facebook took to its blog to share the new WhatsApp users milestone. It’s only half a billion short of Facebook’s own active monthly user figures.…

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Google Play Store to face direct competition by united Chinese smartphone giants

L. Green
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Huawei, Xiaomi, and Vivo and Oppo from BBK are coming together for on an app store platform. Chinese smartphone makers including Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo and Vivo from BBK are working together to create a massive rival to the Google Play Store. All the smartphone makers will bring their app stores together onto one massive combined platform. The idea is to provide a place for app developers outside China to be able to upload their apps to a single platform that will reach each of the Chinese tech giants’ app…

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Clearview AI receives data scraping cessation demand from Venmo and Facebook

Stephanie Beck
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The facial recognition has been strengthening its database by scouring the internet’s pictures. Controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI can add two more tech giants to the list taking legal action against it. Google and Twitter have already filed legal actions against the facial recognition firm. Now, Facebook and Venmo have added their own demands, requiring that Clearview AI cease the use of their members’ images to build its database. A Buzzfeed News report showed that Facebook issued a cease-and-desist letter to the company last week. It required that the…

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