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1)WhatsApp :

Seeking to scotch rumours and identify fake news on social media platform WhatsApp, a team of experts at a New Delhi-based institution is working on developing an application that may be able to tell you whether a message is fake or not. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, associate professor of computer science at the IndraprasthaInstitute of Information Technology, Delhi, (IIIT-D) is heading the team which is developing the app that seeks to determine the authenticity of a message circulated on this platform.

Rumours on WhatsApp have sparked off a spate of incidents involving mob fury, including one where five men were lynched on the suspicion of being child-lifters in Maharashtra’s Rainpada village.

Recently, a man was beaten to death and three others were injured after a mob attacked them suspecting them to be child-lifters, near Bidar in Karnataka.

The professor feels that the application will be a useful tool in the current scenario where a number of such incidents have been reported in which people were killed in violence, triggered on the basis of rumours circulated on WhatsApp.

“We are collecting a large amount of data and have asked people to forward us messages on the number 9354325700. These messages will be analysed, and accordingly, we will develop a model for putting a wrapper on such messages,” he added.

For example, if a message is received, there will be colour codes that will indicate the authenticity. A green might indicate that it is legitimate content, yellow colour might indicate that the system is not able to decode it, while red might indicate that it is definitely fake content, he said.

“Through the messages received, we will study the common factors in such messages. The commonality might be an image, a URL or some words. If it is a forwarded message, it is a high probability that it is a fake message,” said the professor.

He said the app is likely to be ready in a couple of months.

2. Face-Book:

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday appeared in one of the most detailed interviews of his life. Zuckerberg, who started Facebook 14 years ago and is now one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, talked about a number of issues on which he and his company have faced flak in the last one year or so. Though mostly in the interview with Recode, a technology news site in the US, Zuckerberg mostly spent time discussing the problem of fake news and what Facebook can or can do to fix it.

Here are the some of the key and interesting bits from Zuckerberg's interview, although if you are someone keen on understanding the role of Facebook in our lives nowadays and what Zuckerberg thinks about the issues that concern the Facebook users, you should read the full transcript on Recode.

Will Zuckerberg fire himself?

No, he won't. Although he believes that if someone needs to be fired for all the problems Facebook has helped created, then it has to be the person who started the website, which is Zuckerberg. "I think it's (privacy and Cambridge Analytica scandal) is a big issue, but look, I designed the platform, so if someone's going to be fired for this, it should be me," Zuckerberg told Recode's Kara Swisher. "And I think that the important thing going forward is to make sure that we get this right."

3. 15 Years PHD...

A 15-year-old Indian-American child prodigy has reached a milestone in his academic journey and is all set to start his doctorate after completing his graduation in biomedical engineering, according to a media report. Tanishq Abraham graduated from the University of California, Davis with the highest honours of summa cum laude.

"Of course I feel very happy, very excited, and I'm very proud of my accomplishments," Tanishq was quoted as saying by the FOX40.

"He's got a lot of passion and we have to keep up with him, pretty much," said his parents, Taji and Bijou Abraham, hailing from Kerala.

Tanishq has also designed a device that could measure the heart rate of burn patients without touching them. At age 7, he had published an essay about astronomy on the NASA Lunar Science website, and has also given a TEDx talk. As for the future, it's back into the lab at Davis for a PhD and eventually medical school.

Tanishq has big dreams of finding solutions to problems, the report said. "Yeah, of course, what everybody likes to say and what I am also interested in is, of course, cancer and developing new treatments for cancer, more effective treatments for cancer," he said.

Tanishq has already been accepted into the University of California, Davis graduate programme where he plans to get his MD in the next four to five years.

4. Power of AI:

A joint project between the University of South Australia and the University of Stuttgart had an artificial intelligence track and monitor the eye movements of 42 human participants using a video-based eye-tracker from SensorMotoric Instruments. The researchers then cross-checked the findings with regular, well-established questionnaires.

Of the "big five" personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism), the artificial intelligence was able to reliably identify four: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness.

According to the study, this is the first time eye movements have been used to identify personality traits, which is interesting in itself -- but the end goal, according to Tobias Loetscher from the University of South Australia, is to improve human-machine interactions at some point in the future.

"People are always looking for improved, personalised services," he explained. "However, today's robots and computers are not socially aware, so they cannot adapt to non-verbal cues.

"This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals."

In the future the robots will be able to judge us for our terrible personalities before terminating us. Solid result.

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