YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks. Wojcicki, who spoke at a […]
Google has introduced a feature to Maps and Search that helps people find out all they need to know about a location they have searched for. With Google’s ‘Questions & Answers’, people are able to ask questions, get answers, and answer other people’s questions about places on Google Maps. The most informative questions and answers […]
Traditional hand-held tour guides may soon go the way of the dinosaur at museums. The Natural History Museum in London is one such museum that is exploring the use of mobile apps to give visitors a more personalized and relevant experience. More than 5.6 million people walk through the Natural History Museum’s doors each year […]
Google has launched Google Springboard, designed to act as an AI assistant for its enterprise customers. According to Prabhakar Raghavan, VP of engineering for Google Apps, the average knowledge worker spends the equivalent of one full day a week searching for and gathering information. Google Springboard aims to reduce this by searching across all the […]
According to Opera Mediaworks, in their Q1 2016 Mobile First Insights report, mobile apps dedicated to entertainment and information-gathering for consumers are now reaching audiences as large as some of the top broadcast and cable TV shows. The company noted the evolution of mobile from being a communication tool to now a primary source of […]