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The bots’ integration in Skype is rolling out today on Windows, iOS and Android as a preview.

The company launched the first-ever Skype Bot SDK, which lets brands, businesses and other third parties create their own bots that can work on Skype, seamlessly integrating into users’ chats. These aren’t just text bots, as many of the SMS-based virtual assistance startups we’ve seen so far – Skype bots can introduce both audio and video experiences

The company is also launching a bot directory, giving us a brief peek at a few bots it had created itself.

Bots “represent a huge opportunity to write new types of applications,” Nadella told developers

2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.

This is how things get interesting for the RealiSM project: the prototype works as an integrated video recording, editing, and playback system – all working hand in hand to generate what they call reality substitution. A custom-built camera rig, consisting of 18 high-definition cameras which are pointed in all directions, seamlessly shoots a 360-degree spherical imagery that is stitched together in all three dimensions of space. These 18 high-def cameras are paired with 4 omnidirectional microphones, able to pick up sound from all directions relative to the prototype. The 3D spherical video capture is then processed and is rendered by a custom-built HMD that also features a front camera to orient the user’s presence in both the virtual and outside environments.

Aside from the usage focus of the prototype in the medical field, it is also seen as a potential tool for bringing immersive, real-time teleconferencing – bridging the gap caused by time zone issues between the two ends of the communication medium; and also to enhance entertainment experiences – particularly in games – by introducing extremely immersive and true-to-life visuals and audio experiences.

Studies consistently show users thumb through only a handful of apps on a regular basis

This is why tech bellwethers — from social media platforms such as Facebook to traditional hardware companies like Apple — are churning out news products, designed to court and engage audiences to their brand-ecosystems.

Facebook plans to announce the launch of Notify, a standalone news app, the Financial Times reports. Featured content will come from media partners including Vogue, The Washington Post and CBS.

Professional content already is splintered across content creators and technology platforms

Apple News, for iOS 9. The mobile app aggregates news from a wide range of sources into a mobile-friendly format,

Twitter Moments is a feature on Twitter that links tweets in a traditional story format, from beginning to end.

Snapchat has been partnering with publishers for Snapchat Discover. The app, widely popular with millennials, includes a "Discover" feature that showcases stories from publishers including Vice, People, CNN and National Geographic

For example, with instant articles Facebook directly hosts outside publishers' articles on its social network — and Facebook pockets the traffic

Facebook on Wednesday also said its daily video views have reached 8 billion, though some tech analsyts including Pfeiffer wonder if a single view is measured by only a few seconds on an autoplay setting.

Facebook in fact is testing its own, site-specific video hub, as Re/code has reported.

. Сейчас в ней около 20 компаний – от электронной коммерции («Яндекс.Маркет») и медицины (DocDoc) до «Сбербанк телекома» и недвижимости («Домклик»),

В ближайшие пять лет мы не ждем какой-то отдачи в виде высокой прибыли от этих [дочерних] компаний. В ближайшие пять лет наша задача – вырастить экосистему. Потом уже, через пять лет, можно будет ожидать прибыльности и большого вклада в наш совокупный финансовый результат». 16 апреля 2019 г

Избавиться от слова «банк» в названии может и «Тинькофф банк», заявлял его основатель Олег Тиньков. «Мы никакой не банк, мы прежде всего IT-компания», –