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Facebook will protect white men but not black children, leaked documents show
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook documents have been leaked and revealed that the company will protect white men but not black children. For instance, hate speech against female drivers and black children is considered okay, whereas hate speech against white men can be blocked.
Image Description | Screenshot of a censorship quiz displaying images of a female driver, black children, and white men, and chart/statistics about Facebook users.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s)
Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles Instagram accounts HACKED in major social media security breach
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | A few celebrities' Instagram accounts have been hacked because of a bug in the system. The phone numbers and email addresses of celebrities were being sold on the dark web.
Image Description | Portraits of Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles, charts, and hand on a keyboard.
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), male(s)
To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, privacy, research/study
Summary | Restaurants are facing tough times as people seem to visit restaurants less ofter rises. Now analytic firms have come up with software designs that collect data about customers and waiting staff to find inefficiencies and smooth them out. This way all waiters would recognize guests by name and know their order and payment preferences. It could revolutionize customer service in the hospitality industry.
Image Description | People looking at a chart.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s)
Forget India - Lenovo is betting on Africa as next big smartphone market
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 27.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Eric Cador, president of Lenovo in Europe, Middle East and Africa, wants to reach Africa. Africa can be the next great market and smartphone superpower. By 2020, around 70 per cent of Africans will be using smartphones. Lenovo is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a picture of someone with a smartphone, photograph of Eric Cador, chart representing 2015 smartphone vendor market share, photograph of a laptop
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), male(s), smartphone
Robots will replace customer service agents - thank god for that
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Chatbots are taking over the world. On Facebook Messenger for instance, you can ask a shopping concierge bot what you want to buy. The bot will then tailor options to your price range. This is what the future looks like: robot customer service agents. They will kill the customer service industry that we know. However, those bots will lack a human touch.
Image Description | Photograph of an iPhone screen displaying a conversation with the bot "Spring", chart showing the number of call center employees, photograph of a reception desk with a robot and real people, photograph of telemarketers
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Newspaper | The Atlantic
Date | 0.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, cyberbullying, gender, smartphone, social media, threat, youth
Summary | A US study has conducted a large survey among teenagers and found out that smartphones are impacting their lives significantly. They sleep less, go out less, date less, are less likely to get (someone) pregnant, feel left out more, have more mental health issues, etc. Especially girls are more likely to feel left out because they spend more time on social media and because girls tend to bully each other by ostracization which is very easily achievable in cyberspace. Also, the teenage suicide rate has surpassed the teenage homicide rate for the first time in history.
Image Description | Two illustrations showing a woman falling with a tablet and a woman lying in bed at night looking at her smartphone. Charts showing the results from the US survey.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), smartphone, tablet
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