Twitter’s acquisition of machine-learning startup will sharpen videos in real-time

Twitter has announced about its acquisition of a London-based company – Magic Pony Technology that has developed machine-learning techniques for visual processing which can automatically sharpen and add detail into a low-resolution and blurry footage in a video in real time. Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO, shared about the news via a tweet while believing that the development will…

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Nokia N9 - Out of the box Apps and Services

Out of the box blaster: Nokia N9 with built-in Services and Apps

Nokia N9 Apps And ServicesWhenever you get your new phone, the first thing you do with it is to bring your contacts to this new phone. Yeah! you sure have to do the same with N9. But what the second thing you do with your new phone? Go to the store and look for some cool apps or games for your new phone?
Well you don’t need to do the second things so soon on N9, most of those cool apps will not only be on your home screen already but are completely integrated into the system. Mail, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Angry Birds, Need for Speed Shift HD, Golf HD etc.

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Facebook has introduced “Subscribe” button like Following on Twitter and Circling in Google+

Facebook has announced a new feature called the “Subscribe” button. That is; if you are interested to hear from some individual’s like journalists, artists and political figures but you personally do not know them, so adding them as your friends and asking them to accept your friend requests is really not a good idea, it actually never was a good idea which Facebook now has identified and gave you the option to “Subscribe” their statuses and posts.

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Twitter adds “Possibly Sensitive” flag to tweets with media containing inappropriate/NSFW content

Twitter has just announced today about a new field “possibly_sensitive” in the Twitter API, to allow developers to deal properly with the tweets containing sensitive content.

End users will have an option to flag media as sensitive on the details pane of a tweet if the tweet does have at least a link, a picture or a video.

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