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What is an Animoji? Apple leak reveals iPhone 8 feature that makes emojis based on your facial expressions

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple leak revealed a new feature of the new iPhones 8 and X: a facial recognition software that can makes animated emojis.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, 3D face, portraits of celebrities, photographs of the iPhone X box, videos of the iPhone X, and photographs of the new iPhone.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Dad confiscates daughter's iPhone - then makes punishment even worse with savage joke

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting, youth
Summary | One dad punished his daughter and confiscating her iPhone. He also made a joke and slid a piece of paper under her door; he actually drew a picture of a smartphone screen displaying text messages between his daugher and himself.
Image Description | Photograph of a girl using her phone, screenshots of several tweets (one of them shows the piece of paper), and photograph of a dad and his daughter.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, Twitter

Apple's new iPhone X will let you control the POO EMOJI with your face

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple's iPhone X will introduce a new feature: it will let users control the poo emoji with their own face. This new technology can also be used for other things; this is why Apple created Animoji. Animoji tracks your expressions and can create 3D animated emojis that users can use in iMessages.
Image Description | Video of the iPhone X, and photograph of a man holding a phone and smartphone screen displaying the animated poo emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), smartphone

Facebook pledges its support to groups challenging online extremist content

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook revealed their plans to fight terrorism and extermists who use the social media platform. They use artificial intelligence to spot and block terrorists' accounts and content.
Image Description | Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg, hand holding a smartphone in front of a laptop screen displaying a Facebook page, smartphone and laptop screens displaying the Facebook logo, and three smartphones.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Harry Potter Facebook status: How to cast wizarding spells through your social media posts

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 26.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | To celebrate Harry Potter's 20th anniversary, Facebook added wizarding Easter eggs for fans. For instance, if you type specific words (e.g. Harry Potter, Slytherin, or Gryffindor) on the social media platform, you'll be able to see a wand and cast magical animations.
Image Description | Video about Harry Potter, portrait of Harry Potter with a wand, smartphone and laptop screens displaying the Facebook logo, and Harry Potter quiz (video).
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, male(s), smartphone

'Siri, I was raped': Study finds smartphone assistants unable to respond to help in a crisis

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study
Summary | Smartphone personal assistants have been tested and they seem to be unable to respond well to help in a crisis (e.g. suicide, rape, abuse). Developers need to do more in order to improve those personal assistants.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "what can I help you with?", woman hiding her face with her hands, man speaking to his phone, man hiding his face with his hands, a woman's hands using a smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Byte-sized guide for parents on how they can keep their children safe online this summer

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, cyberbullying, privacy, research/study, threat
Summary | Parents want their kids to be safe online during the summer. A research shows that 8 to 16-year-old kids will spend about 130 hours on social media during the summer break. The article offers some tips to keep children safe (e.g. privacy and location settings, play together, how to deal with trolls and sexting, get children to play outside).
Image Description | Photograph of a kid holding a tablet of his/her lap, a kid's hand on a lapop, video about the Pokemon Go game, hand holding a smartphone, Minecraft characters, a little boy hiding his face, young woman making a face, two hands holding a smartphone, a child using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), game, hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet

Facebook granted patent for post-scanning software that identifies slang before it becomes popular

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, word/writing
Summary | Facebook has been granted a patent for a software that can identify users' new words and slang. Facebook wants to identify those new "cool" words before they become popular and create a glossary of those terms.
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook app, photograph of man's face (nose and mouth), and diagram showing how the new software would work
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Rise of the defrienders: Nine in ten young people have been 'ghosted' by their friend or partner

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, social media, texting, youth
Summary | “Ghosting” or defriending someone by text or social media is a new phenomenon. It seems that young people prefer using their smartphones and laptops to end relationships instead of doing it face-to-face. The term "ghosting" came from Katy Perry's song "Ghost" where she talks about ex-husband Russell Brand who had not spoken to her after demanding a divorce via text. Thanks to social media and the fact that you can hide behind your phone it is now easier to defriend people by ghosting.
Image Description | Photographs of two hands holding a smartphone, Russell Brand and Katy Perry, a man using his phone and looking at it, a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

5 easy and simple ways to protect your privacy online - how to prepare for the next big threat

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, threat
Summary | Privacy expert Mark Weinstein shares some tips to protect your privacy online: use safe internet browsers, be careful where you search (for instance, Google saves all of your searches), WhatsApp is not as private as what you might think, use a cloud storage that can't see your information, etc. We should be worried about our privacy in the future as governments are trying to get backdoor access to apps and digital devices. Millennials seem to be the ones that are most concerned about their online privacy.
Image Description | Photographs of a woman in front of social media icons, two hands using computer mice and a keyboard, fingers touching a screen displaying the Google search bar, WhatsApp icon, cloud storage icons, hand holding a smartphone in front of the Facebook logo, portrait of Tim Cook, and Facebook "laughing" reaction button
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Google, hand(s), keyboard, male(s), smartphone, social media, WhatsApp

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