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Facebook has developed two new features yet to be tested: 'red envelope', to help users pay money, and a 'breaking news' tag, for publishers and news agencies. Facebook may soon start testing two features – ‘red envelope’ that would enable users send money to others from the platform, and a ‘breaking news’ tag that publishers can use to make people aware of the latest happenings around them. The two new features, which are not officially under testing mode yet, were first spotted by Matt Navarra, director of social media at the online publication The Next Web. According to Recode, Facebook confirmed that the ‘breaking news’ tag was for a future test, but declined to share more details. Recode said that the social media giant, however, neither gave information about “red envelope” feature, nor denied its existence. “Facebook is always testing new product experiences but there’s nothing specific to talk about at this time,” a Facebook representative was ...

Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants standing on the bleeding edge of AI/ML innovation are actively investing in the democratization of artificial intelligence. In the recent years, these companies have open-sourced many AI/ML libraries, tools or started offering these solutions as a part of their commercial offerings and cloud services. In this article, I'm going to review five machine learning tools that have been recently released for AI startups, developers and researchers . TensorFlow Object Detection API Object Detection API is a new feature integrated into TensorFlow, Google’s state-of-the-art software library for machine learning. The API provides a convenient way for ML developers and researchers to identify objects in images using optimized computer vision algorithms developed at Google. Object Detection API functionality comes with the MobileNets single shot detector optimized to run on mobile devices. Designed for the limited computat...