YouTube launches new features video sharing and massaging to users in app worldwide.

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YouTube today is launching a new sharing feature in its mobile app, previously in testing with users in select markets.  The feature allows YouTube users to send their friends videos and chat from within a new tab in the mobile app – effectively turning YouTube into a mobile messenger of sorts. The feature has been in testing since the middle of last year, and, at the beginning of 2017, rolled out to users in Canada as something of a “soft launch.” It later expanded to parts of Latin America, the company tells us. Following the feedback gained from these long-term initial tests, YouTube felt it was ready to debut the sharing feature to a global audience. That roll out begins today, but won’t reach all YouTube users worldwide for a few days. In other words, if you don’t see the sharing option yet – just wait, you will soon. Since its debut in tests, YouTube says it has made some slight changes to the user interface for sharing, including the way the chat interface

ZUCKERBERG AND MUSK WANT TO READ YOUR MIND.

Two giants of the tech world, Facebook and Elon Musk’s latest venture Neuralink, have both announced that they are working on brain-to-computer interfaces.


At Facebook’s recent F8 developers’ conference, Regina Dugan from Facebook’s R&D division Building 8 showed a video of a woman using such an interface to type eight words per minute, and spoke of the company’s ambitions to develop a similar system capable of typing hundreds of words per minute within a few years.

Dugan has experience in this area: the technology in the Stanford University video was similar to systems developed at DARPA, the US military research agency, while Dugan was director there. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later enthused about the technology in a Facebook post, saying: “We’re working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about five times faster than you can type on your phone today. Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale.” 

Meanwhile at Neuralink, work is in progress on a system to help restore communication to brain injury and stroke victims. Musk says they expect to have a product on the market “in about four years.”


( Source : Internet )

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