Google has introduced a fact checking category to its news service, just ahead of the U.S. presidential elections.

Articles in Google News are labeled and categorized to reflect the type of story they are. For example, there is an “in-depth” and “opinion” label.

Now the search giant is adding “fact check” to the list “to help readers find fact checking in large news stories”.

An article will be flagged up in the new category if it has a certain website code and if it follows the “commonly accepted criteria for fact checks”, Google said in a blog post.

While Google makes no reference to the U.S. election in its blog post, the release of the fact check tag is very close to November presidential elections with journalists busy analyzing comments from all candidates.

“We’re excited to see the growth of the Fact Check community and to shine a light on its efforts to divine fact from fiction, wisdom from spin,” Google said.

 By Ariun Kharpal

Source by http://www.cnbc.com

Technology giants IBM Corp, Google and seven others have joined hands to launch an open specification that can boost datacenter server performance by up to ten times, to take on Intel Corp.

The new standard, called Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI), is an open forum to provide a high bandwidth, low latency open interface design specification.

The open interface will help corporate and cloud data centers to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics and other emerging workloads.

The consortium plans to make the OpenCAPI specification available to the public before the end of the year and expects servers and related products based on the new standard in the second half of 2017, it said in a statement.

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is known to protect its server technologies and has chosen to sit out of the new consortium. In the past also, it had stayed away from prominent open standards technology groups such as CCIX and Gen-Z.

“As artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics become the price of doing business in today’s digital era, huge volumes of data are now the norm,” Doug Balog, general manager for IBM Power, told Reuters.

“It’s clear that today’s datacenters can no longer rely on one company alone to drive innovation,” Balog said.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, Mellanox Technologies Ltd, Micron Technology Inc, NVIDIA Corp and Xilinx Inc are also members of the OpenCAPI consortium.

By Subrat Patnaik and Vishaka George, Editing by Gopakumar Warrier

Source by http://www.reuters.com

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