Facebook unveils new service aimed at the abolition of passwords

Facebook unveiled today during its conference for developers F8 for a new service launched by the name Account Kit allows application developers by providing potential users in the registration of their applications and services without the need to select a name for the user or even a password.
Developers can the new service adoption in their applications and services to facilitate the registration which, as the process rather than demand from the user registration via the choice of user name and password, or ask him to log in with Facebook, the user can record with the phone number or e-mail address only, and will be received message short confirmation SMS or e-mail help him complete the registration process.
Facebook says that the benefits of this service is that it will not be required for users to remember any passwords, making it easier to use applications and services, and to return at any time, nor will it have on the developer storing passwords within the application database, which makes it more secure, which is actors contribute to increased user ratio, which is beneficial to the developer.
Facebook said that the new service is easy to use and does not require developers can simply add the lines of software simple to become ready for use, it is available to developers starting today and support sending SMS messages to more than 230 countries in over 40 languages.

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Facebook reviewing the latest in artificial intelligence techniques

Facebook Inc. offered Wednesday through F8 conference for developers the latest in applied artificial intelligence techniques AML, and more specifically has talked about the applications of this technology in the search for photos and videos within Facebook.
Revealed Facebook for new technology to come to the social network allows search for images and video, according to the content, if the user is required to view images containing ice or sea, will Facebook to find the appropriate images based on the same image analysis and not based on any text description to it.
This feature is similar to the offer in the Google Image Search service hers, but Facebook has reviewed more sophisticated and accurate possibilities, and set an example to search for "a picture of five skiers on the snow with a lake in the background and trees on both sides."

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Similarly, I do Facebook new system can video analysis in real time and find out what's inside, it is likely that the company intends to apply this technology to help the user in the search for the live broadcast clips within the service, which recently launched, in addition to regular video that users be lifted clips. And can take advantage of this technique is to classify videos according to their content, where users can browse video by type, as video cats or cooking or concerts.The company also said it is working on a technique called "photo-speaking" aimed at helping the blind to see what it contains images, where the user can move the mouse over the image or finger over the touch screens will be phonetic pronunciation of the description of the item, which is located under the cursor, it is to tell the blind that this is "first person" in the picture, and that is the "second person", and this tree.

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The F8 developers conference held between 12 and April 13 / April 2016

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Facebook reveals stick Selfie virtual reality technology

Facebook revealed the company during the second day of the conference F8 developers about the latest innovations that are working to develop with its affiliated company Ookyulos Oculus develops specialized VR Virtual Reality techniques.

Innovation is a stick Sylvie allows friends who are in geographically distant places to take pictures Alselva together in third place far away from them as well.

Technical Director of Facebook Mike Hropfer wore on Congress glasses virtual reality platform Ookyulos Rift Oculus Rift and so did a colleague in another place and met together by default in one of the streets of London and They using the control panel touch the magnifying roam in London display 360 degrees.

Upon arrival at the front of the courier's famous Big Ben, where the other person to bring the stick Alselva and take a picture of them with the time as if they were standing together, where a three-dimensional representation of Ugeehma shows together in front of the clock. Although it is not the actual pictures of faces but the technology is still in its infancy and will work for Facebook to develop them to become more realistic in the future.

After capturing the image that the user can drop within the default mail box then it shows the beam extends from the mailbox until the sky in a sign that the image has been raised to Facebook and shared, where the image will appear on the page Balchkchin.mailvr

It is noteworthy that Facebook did not talk about a specific timetable for the availability of this technology commercially users.

F8 developers conference held on 12 and April 13 / April 2016

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HTC announces LifeStyle copy of her phone HTC 10

HTC Corporation announced Tuesday along with the smart phone pioneer 10 HTC 10 for a copy of the phone directed to some of the global markets, which offer less than the standard version specifications.
And vary the other version, which was launched by the Taiwanese company HTC name LifeStyle 10, it has a different processor, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 652 instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 820 in HTC 10.
HTC phone also differs 10 Lifestyle for HTC 10 that includes a RAM size of 3 GB, instead of 4 GB. In addition, the fourth-generation LTE supported by lower compared to the speed of the standard version, with the first support Cat.6 class that provides speeds of 300 (download) / 50 (raising) megabit per second, while the other supports Cat.9 quickly 450 (download) / 50 (raising) Mbps.HTC announces LifeStyle copy of her phone HTC 10
Otherwise, versions offer the same features with respect to the screen, accuracy and cameras, and battery.
The HTC 10 offers a screen-type "Super LCD 5" Super LCD 5 aperture of 5.2 inches and accuracy of 2560 × 1440 pixels, and 32 GB of internal storage space, extensible by external memory cards microSD.
It also has a phone battery capacity of 3000 mAh / h The company says it has enough for two days of average use thanks to improved hardware device, which supports Fast shipping feature Quick Charge 3.0 through a USB Type-C port.
And it owns 10 HTC 10 Rear Camera 12 megapixel with precision lens aperture f / 1.8, this camera and features that it comes with a flashing light "Flash" dual sensor, the second generation of laser auto-focus feature. Front camera phone also has a 5 megapixel with an optical image installed, and lens aperture f / 1.8.
It is noteworthy that the phone HTC Lifestyle 10 will be available in India, and expects it will be available in a number of other developing world markets. This is not information on the price set for the device.

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Facebook turned "Messenger" to the robotic platform for communication between customers and companies

Removed the CEO of Facebook, "Mark Zuckerberg" unveiled today during the company's developer conference F8 platform "Messenger" new Messenger Platform, which the company aspires through which to change the way in which companies interact with their customers and followers.

"Messenger platform" is a set of tools geared for developers, which allows construction of mini-applications within an application Conversation famous Facebook Messenger Facebook Messenger, or so-called chat robotic Chat Bots applications that can be more speed and ease of communication between users and companies a way name.

Chat robotic applications, allows companies to develop chat mini and smart applications, according to artificial intelligence techniques AI reside within the application Facebook Messenger himself, and companies can through which to communicate with their customers via chat Facebook, so that these widgets provide things like help and technical support for the user either was done by the user chat with intelligent robotic program can understand the questions and provide appropriate answers immediately, or through direct contact with actual employees, or through a combination of methods.

And hit Zocarpej During the conference, an example of a specialized service company to send flowers allows the customer request to send flowers to a friend through chat messenger with your Android company quickly and easily, and also reviewed the application of robotic chat continued to CNN, the user can ask him about the latest news and the application will send a summary news only includes titles that the user is interested in follow-up.

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Facebook announces its first dedicated live broadcast digital camera

Facebook announced during the conference F8 developers for its first partnership aims to produce special cameras to serve the live broadcast through Facebook. The new camera is Mevo Mevo produced by Live Stream Livestream US firm are specifically designed to serve the live broadcast Pfispock own.
Among the most prominent Mevo camera features adopted technology allows image capture from several angles and allow the user to choose the angle and the snapshot, which wants to display on viewers of the live broadcast and change the angle easily through the application of smart phones, giving inspiration to the viewer that there are several cameras on the event filming along the lines of television programs .
He said Jesse Hertzberg, CEO of Live Stream developed for the camera in remarks to the site Business Insider, Mevo that presents the user with a television studio in his pocket, so that only one person the quality of TV programs production programs.
The camera has the ability to detect faces and other elements in the frame it is automatically allows the user to click on the desired cut between angles and focus the image on the place a certain angle only.
The camera also provides an option for automatic editing of the video during the live broadcast so that it can on its own to determine the elements in the picture and move them without user intervention.
The camera can accurately capture 720p video and audio recording via the built-in microphone, however, its battery can last only one hour of continuous work, but is available with additional battery gives up to ten hours of use. And it will be available in the markets over the next June at a price of $ 399.

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Facebook service allows instant articles to all publishers

Facebook Inc. on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of service articles Instant Articles to all publishers, as promised in the month of February last, to allow it for those who want to import content into the social network and add it directly within the latest news publications News Feed.
The company said that the adoption of this service was "tremendous," with more than 1,000 publishers worldwide. She added, "we have seen clear evidence that the immediate experience of reading the articles provide a best people and a strong impetus for publishers who are looking to reach their fans on Facebook.
In addition to the immediate availability of the service for all articles, Facebook added new partners and tools, including the possibility of integrating the service with content management platforms, such as WordPress and Medium.

The company also added, which has the largest social network in the world, what is known as Branded Content to the online articles. She said that the labels will be added to this promotional publications.
It is believed that the immediate availability of the articles pan publishers give preference to Facebook on Google, which last year launched a special initiative that bears the name Accelerated Mobile Pages project.
Both initiatives are designed to spare the user's slow load web pages to browsers, but the advantage of Google's AMP project as open source, which means that other services such as Twitter are able to use it.

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