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Smallpdf reaches 10 million monthly users

PDFs are lovely, aren’t they? They give your documents a proper, professional feel. They’re...

July 28, 2017 Ben Allen

Technology

Want to provide a better service to your users? Get rid of your old feedback button

This is a guest post from Cathrine Andersen, the co-founder of the multiple award winning start-up...

February 14, 2013 Cathrine Andersen

Social Media

Meet Twitter’s 500 millionth registered user

Twitter passed the 500 million registered users mark yesterday, February 22, and is currently...

February 23, 2012 Darren McCarra

Social Media

Facebook by the numbers: 845 million users sharing 100 billion friendships

As anticipated, Facebook filed its initial public offering late last night seeking $5 billion in...

February 2, 2012 Darren McCarra

Social Media

Google+ adoption rate accelerating, reaches 62 million users

Google+ user adoption rate has accelerated to 625,000 new sign-ups each day, with the social...

December 29, 2011 Darren McCarra

Web

Why don’t we tweet what we Google? Can end-of-year lists tell us about the year?

'Tis the season that our favorite web companies release their annual data for the most mentioned,...

December 17, 2011 Piers Dillon Scott

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Brains Byte Back

Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every other Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.

In our modern world of fake news and misinformation, it can be hard to know whether the news story you are reading is real or propaganda designed to influence your opinion. However, thanks to AI we are now close to identifying how trustworthy the news in front of us really is.

To discuss this, we are joined by Garry Paxinos, CTO at NetTalk, an easy-to-setup and use, lowest cost voice over IP (VoIP) home phone service.

In addition to the work NetTALK is doing, Garry also discusses an app he has helped build called NOOZ.AI, an AI-driven news aggregator that analyzes the news using natural language processing and machine learning to empower readers to uncover bias.

In this episode, we cover: