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I can't be trusted with Google's texting app
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, language threat, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Google's new Allo app is supposed to make you save time while you're texing, but it can sometimes lead to misunderstandings. The author of the article doesn't really like emojis and doesn't know how to use them well. She doesn't follow young people's digital habits. Their generation favors brevity, which can have a negative impact on language.
Image Description | Photograph of two young girls on their smartphones, two smartphones displaying chat conversations, and a man standing in front of a screen displaying "Allo" and "Duo".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Google launches new Assistant and puts it at heart of Home
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google just launched a personal assistant; its new characteristic is its conversational interface. You can ask it a question at home and it will respond to you. You can also use it on your smartphone. Instead of typing a question, you can now directly ask something. Besides Google, Apple also has its personal assistant Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. Google Home can turn on the lights, play music, and answer your questions.
Image Description | Photographs of Google's assistant, Google Home speakers, and three smartphones displaying chat conversations
Image Tags | Google, smartphone, speaker, text
Google just launched the ultimate keyboard app for iPhone with a built-in search bar
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, smartphone
Summary | Google launched a new keyboard app with a built-in search bar that allows you to search on your iPhone without a browser.
Image Description | Video explaining how the new app works, screenshot of a smartphone screen displaying the built-in search bar, three smartphone screens displaying the app
Image Tags | smartphone, text
Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Women tap into new roles as mobile internet scheme targets rural India
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 5.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, Google
Summary | Only 2% of internet users in rural India are women. This huge discrepancy is being addressed with a new campaign sponsored by Google. A local woman is teaching the other women (and some men) to use the internet to, for instance check the current national retail price of onions so that middle men cannot rip them off. She is also teaching illiterate women how to use the internet with voice command.
Image Description | Woman with a bicycle cart with internet devices and women using tablets and smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, tablet
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