Facebook to Unveil 'New Look for News Feed' March 7
Facebook's about to have some news in its own News Feed. The company sent invitations to reporters this morning, inviting them to "Come see a new look for News Feed." The event will be held at Facebook's campus in Menlo Park, Calif. on March 7.
The company has been testing new designs of user Timelines, but this event looks like it will focus strictly on the News Feed. According to TechCrunch, Facebook has been testing improved versions of the News Feed feature in mobile apps. The social network has recently overhauled its iPhone and Android apps, making them faster to use.
The event comes after the social network announced last night that it has acquired Atlas, a digital advertising company, from Microsoft. The acquisition, Facebook says, will help advertising with targeting audiences on the Web and through mobile.
Facebook has continued to beef up its mobile offerings over the last several months. In addition to refreshing its iOS and Android apps, it released Poke, a mobile messaging service, as well as added free calling to its iPhone Messenger app.
Facebook held a similar event at its campus in January, when it unveiled its new Graph Search, a search tool that lets you search across your friends information.
Budget 2013: Semiconductor manufacturing gets a leg up
To spur local electronics manufacturing, Finance Minister P Chidambaram offered sops to chip makers to set up base in India. The industry, though, considered the act a good start but far from sufficient.
While presenting the Union Budget for 2013-14, Chidambaram said the Indian government will waive customs duty for plants and machinery in the semiconductor sector.
While India is home to semi-conductor designing, very little manufacturing is done in the country. The Indian semiconductor design market is expected to grow to $14.5 billion (Rs 78,200 crore) in 2015.
A new tool to keep your inbox spam free
TORONTO: Researchers have proposed a new statistical framework for spam filtering that can quickly and efficiently block unwanted messages in your email inbox.
Scientists from the Concordia University have conducted a comprehensive study of several spam filters in the process of developing a new and efficient one.
"Our new method for spam filtering is able to adapt to the dynamic nature of spam emails and accurately handle spammers' tricks by carefully identifying informative patterns, which are automatically extracted from both text and images content of spam emails," said researcher Ola Amayri. Until now, the majority of research in the domain of email spam filtering has focused on the automatic extraction and analysis of the textual content of spam emails and has ignored the image-based content.
