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Android: celebrating a big milestone together with you

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

When I started working at Google in early 2007, it was before Android, before iOS. Mobile was still niche. And while many of us had a sense that mobile was going to be big, I’m not sure we really realized just how big it was going to get. Fast forward to today, and there are now 2 billion monthly active Android devices globally. This is an extraordinarily humbling milestone—and it’s the largest reach of any computing platform of its kind. Today at Google I/O, we celebrated that milestone and showcased a number of ways we’re working to make …Read More

Source:: Android: celebrating a big milestone together with you

The TensorFlow Research Cloud offers researchers the following benefits:

  • Access to Google’s all-new Cloud TPUs that accelerate both training and inference
  • Up to 180 teraflops of floating-point performance per Cloud TPU
  • 64 GB of ultra-high-bandwidth memory per Cloud TPU
  • Familiar TensorFlow programming interfaces

You can sign up here to request to be notified when the TensorFlow Research Cloud application process opens, and you can optionally share more information about your computational needs. We plan …Read More

Source:: Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud

News Feed FYI: New Updates to Reduce Clickbait Headlines

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

By Arun Babu, Engineer, Annie Liu, Engineer, and Jordan Zhang, Engineer

People tell us they don’t like stories that are misleading, sensational or spammy. That includes clickbait headlines that are designed to get attention and lure visitors into clicking on a link. In an effort to support an informed community, we’re always working to determine what stories might have clickbait headlines so we can show them less often.

Last year we made an update to News Feed to reduce stories from sources that consistently post clickbait headlines that withhold and exaggerate information. Today, we are making three updates that build …Read More

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Each module processes inputs and provides transformed representations of those inputs on its outputs (which are, in turn, available for the next level). In the Smart Reply system, and the figure above, the repeated structure has two layers of hierarchy. The first makes each feature useful as a predictor of the final result, and the second combines these features. By definition, the second works at a more abstract representation and considers a wider timescale.

By …Read More

Source:: Efficient Smart Reply, now for Gmail

Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

Posted by Quoc Le & Barret Zoph, Research Scientists, Google Brain team

At Google, we have successfully applied deep learning models to many applications, from Our GoogleNet architecture. Design of this network required many years of careful experimentation and refinement from initial versions of convolutional architectures.

To make this process of designing machine learning models much more accessible, we’ve been exploring ways to automate the design of machine learning models. Among many algorithms we’ve studied, evolutionary algorithms [1] and reinforcement learning algorithms [2] have shown great promise. But in this blog post, …Read More

Source:: Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture

8 Things to Do During Your First Week as a Social Media Manager

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

It’s your first day as a social media manager for a new company. Where do you even start?

This question is a common one, but one that often goes unasked as people are worried about seeming inexperienced or making a bad impression when they start a new job. Really, it’s a very reasonable question. Making a critical error would be far more costly than asking colleagues for help.

You can’t just jump in and start tweeting on behalf of a business you’re unfamiliar with. Every company has a different audience, different needs, and different goals for their social media presence. But you …Read More

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CSquared gets new investors to expand internet access in Africa

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

Three billion people around the world are now online, but access remains critically low in Africa, where only 10 percent of households can connect to the internet.

In 2011, a team of Googlers identified a major barrier to affordable, reliable broadband in Africa: the lack of fiber optic networks in large cities. This led to Project Link, an initiative to build world-class, high-speed urban fiber networks in Africa’s metropolises. In 2013 we folded these efforts under a new Google brand called CSquared with the aim of bringing other companies into the market, expanding access and lowering costs. …Read More

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WordPress 4.7.5 Security and Maintenance Release

by | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

WordPress 4.7.5 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.7.4 and earlier are affected by six security issues:

  1. Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class. Reported by Ronni Skansing.
  2. Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Sam Thomas.
  3. Lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team.
  4. A Cross Site Request Forgery (CRSF)  vulnerability was discovered in the filesystem credentials dialog. Reported by Yorick Koster.
  5. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability …Read More

    Source:: WordPress 4.7.5 Security and Maintenance Release

Connecting People With Mental Health Resources and Building a Safer Community

by | May 16, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US, and this month Facebook is letting people know about our tools and resources we have developed for people who may be struggling. People may see videos or photos in News Feed for a broad awareness campaign about supportive groups, crisis support over Messenger and suicide prevention tools.

We’ve been committed to mental health support for many years, and this is one of the ways we’re working to build a safer and more supportive community on Facebook. As we continue to invest in new tools …Read More

Source:: Connecting People With Mental Health Resources and Building a Safer Community