Facebook F8: Messenger to get new robot powers and virtual reality to roll out at company’s developer conference
Facebook is about to launch a huge new bot platform that could change the future of the internet forever.The company is unveiling a platform of chat bots that it hopes can become the future of customer service and information. That brings it into line with Microsoft’s Skype and other apps like Kik in moving its focuses onto chatbots that are meant to help people out.
- The new bots will sit within the Messenger app, which users traditionally use to chat to friends — and, as of last year, human representatives for businesses. But the site is making some of those representatives into robots, allowing companies to have their customers chat with artificially intelligent versions of those helpers.
- if a user tells the bot to pay their friend £30, for instance, then the robot will be able to recognise the different parts of that sentence and send the money through their bank, no humans needed.
- But that power also seems to be limited. The app hasn’t rolled out much further than San Francisco, yet, and more developed features appear still to be handled by humans.
Having chat bots is good in away as they get to make people talk rather than having to go on other apps and speak like that.
iOS 9 date bug: iPhones could be forced to break by connecting to any Wi-Fi network
A new bug has been found by security researchers that could allow hackers to cause problems for phones without their owner ever knowing. That bug works by tricking phones into thinking that the date is 46 years ago. While the previous problem has since been fixed, the new exploit uses problems with the Wi-Fi network to trick phones into resetting their date. It essentially works in the same way as the old trick, but works over the network.
- Researchers Patrick Kelley and Matt Harrigan found that they could hijack the network time protocol (NTP) which the phone uses to check what the date and time is. The security researchers could pretend to be an NTP server, and instead tell the phone that it is January 1, 1970 – causing issues for the phones.
- Users can stay safe from the bug by making sure that they don’t connect to suspect Wi-Fi networks, which security experts advise anyway. But that might be more difficult than it sounds, since hackers can easily trick devices into connecting to suspect networks without their owner ever knowing.
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