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⚡️ 20% of smart-speaker owning Brits use them to boil an egg. Only 7% have used them to buy anything. (Source: Econsultancy)

INSIGHT
💡 Ad Council creates story-driven mobile chat to combat teenage drinking and driving: prs.pctvix.co/2N5v2Em

OTHER NEWS
🤦‍♂️ Maker of popular quiz apps on Facebook exposed personal data of 120 million users: t.me/iXNews/28485

🕵️‍♀️ #Facebook and #Twitter Expand Peek Into Who’s Behind Their Ads: prs.pctvix.co/2NaCttZ

🐉 This flying ‘dragon’ #drone can change shape in midair: t.me/iXNews/28507

🍎 #Apple to reportedly get its OLED displays from #LG to reduce reliance on #Samsung: t.me/iXNews/28503

🤖 #SpaceX is sending an #AI robot ‘crew member’ to join the astronauts on the space station: t.me/iXNews/28495

🏫 #Instagram may soon let college students list their schools: t.me/iXNews/28486

📺 #YouTube kills some creators’ custom-made thumbnail images in latest experiment: t.me/iXNews/28481

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⚡️ Initial market reception of the IGTV release is optimistic - Instagram is expected to earn $5.48 billion in U.S. ad revenue in 2018 and Facebook’s share price was up over 2.2% Thursday to nearly $202. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
🤖 156 slides on the state of #AI and recent progress: prs.pctvix.co/2NiMvJQ

OTHER NEWS
🙄 #WhatsApp copies #Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats: t.me/iXNews/28581

⁉️ #Instagram may let you ask questions in Stories: prs.pctvix.co/2tLizgX

🇪🇺 #Facebook hires Spiegel exec (and sometimes critic) to strengthen relations with publishers in Europe: prs.pctvix.co/2NjYpTo

📺 #YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is live for all U.S. Android users: t.me/iXNews/28560

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📗 #Instagram Creators Handbook - #IGTV (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MGEehC

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STAT
⚡️ VPN users are more likely to be young, male, and educated to university level. All of these demographic distinctions fit the profile of early adopters. (Source: Global Web Index)

INSIGHT
✋️ ‘Addictive’ #Facebook may harm children, claim insiders: prs.pctvix.co/2Nr5ulh

OTHER NEWS
🎆 500 #Intel drones to replace fireworks above Travis Air Force base for Fourth of July: t.me/iXNews/28758

🎾 #Snapchat’s new lens lets you play tennis against Serena Williams:
prs.pctvix.co/2NosmSo

🤖 DeepMind’s #AI agents exceed ‘human-level’ gameplay in Quake III: t.me/iXNews/28766

🇪🇺 Wikipedia goes dark in Spanish, Italian ahead of key EU vote on copyright: t.me/iXNews/28764

🕵️‍♂️ #Google tries to calm controversy over app developers having access to your #Gmail: t.me/iXNews/28760

💵 #Netflix tests 'Ultra' tier that could add a higher price option: prs.pctvix.co/2tWDZYE

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STAT
⚡️ According to a January 2018 survey by Fluent LLC, many US internet users (55%) own some form of smart-home technology. The most common device is a smart TV (38%), followed by lighting (17%), thermostats (16%) and security systems (14%). Kitchen appliances had the lowest level of ownership (7%) among those mentioned. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
🎬 The Guardian finds less polished video works better on #Instagram Stories: prs.pctvix.co/2u5ZmpS

OTHER NEWS
👨‍⚖️ #Facebook Called Itself a 'Publisher' in Court After Repeatedly Rejecting the Label in Public: prs.pctvix.co/2z8a5po

🇪🇺 EU sends controversial internet copyright reforms back to the drawing board: t.me/iXNews/28800

🤖 #AI spots legal problems with tech T&Cs in #GDPR research project: t.me/iXNews/28786

🇨🇳 Huawei slams FCC proposal to bar funds for Chinese telecom gear: t.me/iXNews/28799

🚫 Avengers' Thanos sparks biggest ban in Reddit history: prs.pctvix.co/2u6yNkt

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STAT
⚡️ Snapchat usage and engagement has gone down 15-40% since the release of Instagram Stories. Top creators used to get around 330,000 views per day on Snapchat in 2015 up until June 2016. Nowadays, they only get around 205,000 to 250,000 views per day. (Source: TechCrunch)


INSIGHT
🎾 How Wimbledon is using #AI to enhance the fan experience: prs.pctvix.co/2mdR3EY


OTHER NEWS
💻 Google’s #Chrome desktop browser is about to receive a major facelift: prs.pctvix.co/2mahE5D

🌱 This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head: t.me/iXNews/29209

🔥 #Google introduces machine learning ad tools and brands are hot for them:

👁 #Xbox One is getting Dolby Vision support: t.me/iXNews/29203

💤 Casper opens a storefront for $25 naps: t.me/iXNews/29191

🌃 #Facebook testing #AR ads in the News Feed and new tool to help brands create video ads: prs.pctvix.co/2mdjS4a

🔎 Dirt Protocol raises $3M for a decentralized, #blockchain-based approach to information vetting: t.me/iXNews/29189
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💃 Use AI to fake those dance moves you always wanted!

Deepfakes for Dancing uses #AI to read someone’s dance moves and copy them on to a target body!

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​​🗣 The State of Chinese Voice Assistants

China is the second-largest consumer market in the world, hitting $4.3T in consumer expenditure in 2016 alone (for reference, the US ranked first with $12.5T, and Japan third with $2.7T).

The Chinese smart home market will reach nearly $23B in 2018, according to Juniper Research. #SmartSpeakers and #AI voice assistants are becoming an integral part of that.

Now that smart speakers are becoming commonplace, the early entrant, #Amazon, is losing its market share — and not just to its rival #Google, but to newer players emerging in China.

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🚫 Facebook's Battle with Fake Accounts

Last week, #Facebook published its third Community Standards Enforcement Report which shows the efforts the company is making to curb and remove controversial content. Between October 2018 and March 2019, Facebook said it removed 3.39 billion fake accounts, twice the number detected and removed in the previous six-month period. It is also more than a billion more than the 2.37 billion people who actively use Facebook each month.

Facebook is trying to fight mass account creations using a combination of #AI and human monitoring. Facebook claims that the vast majority of fake accounts disabled within minutes of their creation.

#️⃣ #FakeNews #Spam

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 6


👉 #France is using #AI to check whether people are wearing masks on public transport (link)


👉 #Facebook's Oversight Board, who will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment, announces its first 20 members out of a total of 40 (link)


👉 Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and more Viacom channels coming to #YouTubeTV (link)


👉 #Zoom acquires #Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise (link)


👉 Liberty’s Virgin Media and Telefonica’s O2 to merge in the UK in $39B deal (link)


👉 #Square Q1: revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY; net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY (link)
👉 #Square reports $528M in Q1 revenues from its Cash App, with $306M coming from #Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time (link)


👉 #PayPal Q1: misses estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY; net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY (link)


👉 #Shopify Q1: revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY; gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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