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Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines, an artificial intelligence startup which could help Cortana hold more natural dialog with users. The California company has focused its efforts on so-called “conversational AI,” moving beyond the more basic back-and-forth currently supported by the Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa. Right now, talking with one of those virtual helpers could leave you doubting … Continue reading

After refusing to speak with UK parliament twice, there was doubt over whether Mark Zuckerberg could be coaxed into discussing the Cambridge Analytica fiasco again. But recent efforts from Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, ind…

The biggest annual gaming convention is just around the corner. With E3 2018 due to start next year, many are interested in finding out what their favorite companies have in store for the convention. Bethesda will certainly be conducting a press briefing at the event to show off what it has been working on and the company has assured fans that its briefing won’t be too long.

Lengthy press briefings are a staple at E3 every year. It’s common for the likes of EA and Ubisoft to take more than one hour to talk about whatever they have got going on. Microsoft’s E3 2017 press conference went on for almost two hours.

Bethesda always brings a breath of fresh air to the proceedings with its short briefings. Its E3 2017 show was just 39 minutes long. It’s also important to note that all of the games it showed off during E3 2017, including Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, were released last year. This is a different approach compared to other companies that only tease and show glimpses of projects first that may not be coming out for a long time.

It’s unclear what else Bethesda has lined up for E3 2018 other than Rage 2 which was recently announced and will be detailed at the event. Bethesda marketing head Pete Hines has confirmed on Twitter, though, that he can assure fans that the company’s E3 2018 press briefing won’t be super long. “I assure you it won’t be three hours long,” he tweeted.

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Facebook is still dealing with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal which resulted in the personal information of millions of Facebook users being leaked. This led to the beginning of a #deleteFacebook trend on other social media networks but the movement, for lack of a better word, doesn’t seem to have had any material impact on Facebook’s usage stats. A new report reveals that Facebook’s usage stats were actually up during the time when the scandal was constantly in the news cycle.

A client note from Goldman Sachs cites ComScore figures which reveal that Facebook’s unique users in the United States surged 7 percent year-over-year to 188.6 million last month which was the time when Facebook was in the middle of the Cambridge Analytica storm. The report also mentions that time spent on Facebook also went up during this time.

Many had billed the data misuse scandal as the biggest crisis that Facebook had ever faced in the history. Some were even talking about the company’s future in uncertain terms but now it seems that the company can weathered the storm relatively unscathed.

Another report from Deutsche Bank mentions that its advertising system checks have revealed that the over half a billion fake accounts that Facebook deleted in the first quarter of this year have had “little to no impact” on audience reach. The report also mentioned that ad targeting across all demographics has actually grown during this period.

Facebook’s stock price had taken a hit as well when reports about the scandal were published but even the stock has made full recovery. As they say, all’s well that ends well.

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