Wednesday 28 March 2018

Facebook reportedly shelving plans to unveil its smart speaker in May


Surprising no one, Facebook has suspended plans to unveil its AI-powered smart speaker at its F8 developer conference at the beginning of May, reports Bloomberg. That’s because the company is still in the thick of one of the biggest scandals to have rocked the social network; over the past few weeks, it was revealed that a data analytics company was able to use Facebook’s API to gather personal information on 50 million users without their knowledge, so as to target voters with campaign messaging. And more recently, Facebook’s apps were found collecting users’ call and text message logs that dating…

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