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Can't find the right emoji? AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs while you type

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Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, GIFs, meme, texting
Summary | A new app called Dango uses artificial intelligence to suggest the most appropriate emojis, GIFs, or memes you can use. Thanks to AI, the app analyzes the meaning of your text messages.
Image Description | Screenshot of Dango's chat bubble, photograph of a series of emojis on a screen, and chart explaining how Dango's neural system works.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, smartphone, text

Apple Opens the iMessage Door, and the Ephemera Rushes In

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, word/writing
Summary | An Apple user of iMessage can now use different "tchotchkees" (e.g. GIFs, stickers, emojis) which dominate text messages whereas words are just "afterthought". Users can also throw confetti and balloons. Apple is trying to mimic what is out there on the internet.
Image Description | Screenshots of iMessage chats with words and stickers/emojis/GIFs/confetti, and screenshot of a tweet
Image Tags | emojis, gifs, text, Twitter

See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji

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Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, translation
Summary | A woman is translating various children's literature into emojis. Not the whole text is replaced by emojis, only some words or parts of words. The books are supposed to be really great for beginning readers to encourage reading since the texts are made easier to understand by using a range of emojis. Not only the regular emojis available on all smartphones are used but also roughly 600 original emojis created by the author.
Image Description | A passage from the emoji-enhanced version of "A Christmas Carol".
Image Tags | emojis, text

Married to Their Smartphones (Oh, and to Each Other, Too)

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | addiction, gender
Summary | Married couples increasingly report of marital disputes around smartphone use. Especially women feel devalued when their husbands give more attention to their smartphones rather than then. Marriage counsellors report that it is particularly problematic when spouses both use their smartphones in bed since it prevents emotional incimacy before going to sleep, as well as reducing the likelihood of physical intimacy.
Image Description | Illustration of a female and male smartphone on a marriage counselling couch.
Image Tags | emojis, smartphone, text

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