Facebook Claims It's Cracking Down on Ads Promising to Cure or Prevent Coronavirus As tech and social media giants engage in a kind of Whac-A-Mole for COVID-19 scaremongering and product misinformation on their websites, Facebook says it’s cracking down on ads intended to mislead users about their products on its Marketplace.Read more...

How Delivery Apps Are Eating Up Your Budget Uber Eats and DoorDash might be convenient, but the apps are making you pay a juicy premium as high as 91 percent.

Should Robots Have a Face? As automation comes to retail industries, companies are giving machines more humanlike features in order to make them liked, not feared.

‘Inspiring Women’ video series continues to shine a spotlight on female marketing leaders CleverTap continues its Inspiring Women video series with five more female marketing executives who exemplify leadership and creativity.

A Meeting in Orbit Demonstrates a Space Junk Solution Two satellites docked together high above Earth on Tuesday, successfully extending the life of one that was running out of fuel.

Facebook now bans ads peddling coronavirus conspiracies and fake cures Facebook this week has reassured everyone that it’s going to ban ads that promise “cures” for the Covid-19 virus (a.k.a. the coronavirus). Whether it can actually do so remains to be seen. Both Facebook and Instagram first mentioned their interest in banning phony “cures” back in January, as part of their larger plan to banmisinformation surrounding the coronavirus. Facebook confirmed its interest in banning such ads to Business Insider today, saying: We recently implemented a policy to prohibit ads that refer to the coronavirus and create a sense of urgency, like implying a limited supply, or guaranteeing a cure or prevention. We… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Facebook

Updates to Google’s Open Images could lead to improved app interface design Google updated its training data set for computer vision -- Open Images -- with a new form of multimodal annotations called localized narratives.

How Resident Microbes Restructure Body Chemistry The makeup of our microbiomes — the unique communities of bacteria, viruses and other microbes that live in

Scientists propose new regulatory framework to make AI safer Scientists from Imperial College London have proposed a new regulatory framework for assessing the impact of AI, called the Human Impact Assessment for Technology (HIAT). The researchers believe the HIAT could identify the ethical, psychological and social risks of technological progress, which are already being exposed in a growing range of applications, from voter manipulation to algorithmic sentencing. They based their idea on the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), which has been used to evaluate the environmental effects of proposed developments for 50 years. Like environmental impact, the human impact of AI is difficult to model and often produces unforeseen results. Software is often easy to… This story continues at The Next Web

Logitech and Herman Miller dare to create gamer furniture Logitech G and Herman Miller are teaming up to create a line of "high-performance" gaming furniture that is launching this spring.

Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds adds Dragons in massive 16.4 update Battlegrounds is getting 7 Dragon Aspects as Heroes and 18 new minions, many of them dragons, in the 16.4 update to Hearthstone's auto-battler.

Redcar council IT hack confirmed as ransomware attack Redcar council's IT systems have been down for 19 days but "significant progress" is being made.

FunCraft raises $1.8 million to make ‘casual forever’ mobile games FunCraft, a new studio headed by former Electronic Arts and Zynga veterans, has raised $1.8 million to make 'casual forever' mobile games.

Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon is a dungeon-crawling puzzle game Yacht Club Games announced Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon during a video presentation today. This will be the first Shovel Knight game for mobile.

Air Travelers Can’t See All of It, but More Tech Is Moving Them Along As more people fly, airlines and airports are relying more heavily on artificial intelligence to speed their trips.