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During the Coronavirus epidemic, social networking sites are in a race to gain more popularity by introducing new features to meet the needs of users, including the video conference application Zoom and Google Dave Video after Facebook. Conferencing and Twitter have become part of this race with the latest Corona updates.

While the coronavirus has crippled the economy around the world and alienated one person from another in the name of social distance, new features are being introduced on social media to bring humans closer together. While the Zoom app allows office collaborators to have meetings at home, Facebook has already provided the latest and authoritative information and news about the coronavirus in a click with the Code-19 feature.

Google, the worlds largest search engine, has introduced a new feature of simultaneous video conferencing for 12 people in its chat app Google Dave. This will be further updated to ensure the presence of 32 people at a time. Unlike the zoom, the feature also features visually pleasing masks, humorous filters, and the option to hide from the screen.

Google says the group video call feature in Dave will also be available on the web next week. And after this development, all three of Googles video chat applications will be available on the Google app, Hangouts or Google Mate. The Dave app is also more mobile-friendly than all three of these apps. It will also be available on the web from next week.

On the other hand, like Facebook, Twitter has also integrated the latest authentic news related to Code 19 with a single click. This new feature is in the Explorer section of Twitter where the user can get information about the situation of Corona in his country. Are done. For those who use Twitter on mobile apps, this feature is also in the Live Notification Basket, including the search option.

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NEW DELHI: Social networking giant Facebook has shut down its Instagram Lite app. The company launched the app two years ago for the emerging markets which have users with less powerful smartphones. As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook quietly removed the app from the Google Play Store.The report also added that users who already had the app on their smartphones are now greeted with a message that the app is no longer supported. Facebook is also directing the users to go to the full-fledged Instagram app to stay connected with the people and things they love.'; var randomNumber = Math.random(); var isIndia = (window.geoinfo && window.geoinfo.CountryCode === 'IN') && (window.location.href.indexOf('outsideindia') === -1 ); //console.log(isIndia && randomNumber The Instagram Lite app is available for download in countries like Kenya, Mexico, Peru and the Philippines. The report also suggests that Facebook might relaunch the app as the company might bring a new and improved app on the basis of user feedback.

Recently, Instagram rolled out web support for sending Direct Messages (DMs). As per multiple online reports, the web version of the popular photo-sharing app now also supports viewing of Instagram Live videos.

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LinkedIn has launched new virtual events feature on its platform globally at a time when physical events are risky due to the rise of coronavirus. Through the new solutions, organisations and their audiences will be able to connect virtually in real-time while following the social distancing norms. The company said that using LinkedIn Live, companies can now host virtual events and stream them live to the attendees. This has been enabled by integrating LinkedIn Live and LinkedIn Events.

The top professional social media network said, This integration between LinkedIn Live and LinkedIn Events helps companies to host live, real-time events in a trusted environment, attract the right professional audiences, drive strong reach and engagement, and get more mileage for their events with a dedicated hub for videos of the event on their Pages.

The companies can create an online event on their pages and share it with the audience. The attendees will join the event when it starts and they will also be able to comment when it is going on. Additionally, LinkedIn says that organisations can keep the conversation going even after the event is over wit the Videos tab.

LinkedIn said that according to its data, 82 percent of audiences prefer watching live-streams from companies than regular social media posts. It also said that its parent Microsoft is already live-streaming its keynotes to its followers. The new feature is available to all members globally across all markets on desktop and mobile.

LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Events in October 2019 and in March this year, it allowed companies to create events on their LinkedIn Pages. It said that it has now launched the new solution with tighter integration of Events, Pages, and Live.

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Twitters effort to tackle coronavirus misinformation is prompting the company to place labels and warning messages on tweets that contain disputed claims about the pandemic.

The change is designed to give users additional context to Twitter conversations swirling around the topic involving contested or misleading claims, Public Policy Director Nick Picklessaidon Monday.

In March, Twitter began removing tweets that contain coronavirus misinformation. However, the policy only applies to posts that risk causing serious harm, like advising people to drink bleach to cure themselves.

Now the company is trying to address the heated COVID-19 debates swirling on the platform, which often point toconspiracy theories. The same posts can also cast doubt on the need to practice social distancing or wear a mask. In response, Twitter plans on placing a warning message over tweets that contain disputed coronavirus information the company deems severe.

These warnings will inform people that the information in the Tweet conflicts with public health experts guidance before they view it, the company said in a blog post. Most importantly, the warning messages will also cover up the tweet from view unless the user clicks through it.

On tweets that only contain coronavirus misinformation found to be moderately harmful, the company is going to place a label under the content that says Get the facts about COVID-19 with a link to a credible source.

How Twitter will rate harm depends on the immediacy and likelihood someone believing the coronavirus claim will put them in danger, the company told PCMag. For example, a tweet that says "wearing a mask will get you sick" could easily be adopted, and put people at risk. A tweet that says "COVID came from a lab in China," on the other hand, poses no immediate risk to causing harm.

What specific topics or conspiracy theories will get flagged with a label or warning message wasnt spelled out. But as an example, Twitter told PCMag it will place the warnings on tweets that saygetting a flu shot may increase your susceptibility to COVID," a debunked claim that's been growing in circulation on social media, particularly among anti-vaccination supporters.

Still, Twitter says it will take no action on tweets that contain "unverified" COVID-19 claims. So the company may be slow to respond to new coronavirus debates peddling misinformation that emerge on the platform.

Twitter indicated its going to rely on automated content moderating systems and trusted partners to help it identify the problematic tweets. But the larger question is whether the approach will work. So far, the pandemic is showing coronavirus misinformation can quickly go viral on social media before its taken down. Last week, a video called Plandemic, which at one point says "wearing the mask literally activates your own virus," managed to get millions of views on YouTube and Facebook prior to its removal.

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Dario Gil from IBM Research

In this video, Dario Gil from IBM shares results from the IBM Quantum Challenge and describes how you can access and program quantum computers on the IBM Cloud today.

From May 4-8, we invited people from around the world to participate in the IBM Quantum Challengeon the IBM Cloud. We devised the Challenge as a global event to celebrateour fourth anniversary of having a real quantum computer on the cloud. Over those four days 1,745people from45countries came together to solve four problems ranging from introductory topics in quantum computing, to understanding how to mitigate noise in a real system, to learning about historic work inquantum cryptography, to seeing how close they could come to the best optimization result for a quantum circuit.

Those working in the Challenge joined all those who regularly make use of the 18quantum computing systems that IBM has on the cloud, includingthe 10 open systemsand the advanced machines available within theIBM Q Network. During the 96 hours of the Challenge, the total use of the 18 IBM Quantum systems on the IBM Cloud exceeded 1 billion circuits a day. Together, we made history every day the cloud users of the IBM Quantum systems made and then extended what can absolutely be called a world record in computing.

Every day we extend the science of quantum computing and advance engineering to build more powerful devices and systems. Weve put new two new systems on the cloud in the last month, and so our fleet of quantum systems on the cloud is getting bigger and better. Well be extending this cloud infrastructure later this year by installing quantum systems inGermanyand inJapan. Weve also gone more and more digital with our users with videos, online education, social media, Slack community discussions, and, of course, the Challenge.

Dr. Dario Gil is the Director of IBM Research, one of the worlds largest and most influential corporate research labs. IBM Research is a global organization with over 3,000 researchers at 12 laboratories on six continents advancing the future of computing. Dr. Gil leads innovation efforts at IBM, directing research strategies in Quantum, AI, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Industry Solutions, and Semiconductors and Systems. Dr. Gil is the 12th Director in its 74-year history. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Gil served as Chief Operating Officer of IBM Research and the Vice President of AI and Quantum Computing, areas in which he continues to have broad responsibilities across IBM. Under his leadership, IBM was the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud. An advocate of collaborative research models, he co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a pioneering industrial-academic laboratory with a portfolio of more than 50 projects focused on advancing fundamental AI research to the broad benefit of industry and society.

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