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Facebook's standalone instant messaging app has been rumoured to receive a new chat bot feature which allows users to have conversations with company's automated representatives. A new update to the Messenger shows a new heading added in the app - "Bots and Businesses" - seen when searching or as contacts when creating a new message. Engadget spotted the feature first and adds that Facebook can announce the arrival of chatbots in the Messenger app at the company's annual developer conference, F8. It adds that prior to the update, the Messenger app listed "Businesses" with list of the companies users can interact for customer support and other inquiries. It's worth noting that new "Bots and Businesses" heading is not visible after the latest update to Messenger for iOS and Android in India tipping that it may be a region specific feature. As of now, there is no word whether the chatbot feature in Messenger app will be limited to just busi...

Microsoft for the first time since Windows 8 has updated its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) interface that shows up when the operating system crashes due to a critical error. The updated screen now shows QR codes to help technicians identify error codes in the blue screens. It is worth mentioning that until now, the Windows 'stop code' stayed visible only for a few seconds during a Blue Screen, making it difficult to note, research, and fix the specific. However, now that's not the case. Now users can scan the QR code from their handsets to find an encoded URL with specific troubleshooting information for the problem and related support articles. Nonetheless, the sad ASCII smiley that was introduced with Windows 8 will still be there on the blue screen. Prior to Windows 8, Microsoft used to display more detailed information about the crash. These QR codes were found by testers in the latest preview version of Windows 10, so it is yet to reach all the users. The QR codes i...