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FaceCoin: Here’s What Facebook Could Build In Blockchain And Cryptocurrency

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For one, in January 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned cryptocurrency when disclosing his annual project for 2018: “There are important counter-trends to [the rise of Big Tech] — like encryption and cryptocurrency… I’m interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects.”. So what is Facebook’s strategy?

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Voice And The Potential For Building More Elegant Payments

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In the age of voice-activated UX [user experience] in general,” Gurukula told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, “users expect that a transition to a conversational mode of interacting should mean that ‘technology’ just fills in a lot of the usual information gaps without having to ask the consumer.”.

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Lessons From The Failed Chatbot Revolution — And 5 Industries Where The Tech Is Making A Comeback

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Customer journey: Using chat to get people from online to brick-and-mortar. Facebook scaled back work on its flagship “M” virtual assistant after it revealed that M had failed in handling 70% of all user requests. By 2018, news coverage of chatbots was in decline. In January 2018, Facebook closed down M.