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Facebook already runs your life. Now it is launching a social network for the office
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 10.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Facebook has already conquered a lot of areas of our lives, but the office is not one of them. However, Facebook just unveiled a new version of Facebook designed entirely for the office. Workers will be able to update their status, post photos and videos, like and comment on posts and chat with co-workers. The goal of the platform is not to kill emails, but eventually that's what might happen.
Image Description | Image of a tablet screen displaying Facebook's "Workplace", schema displaying details of the new platform, iPhone screen displaying a Facebook post, and portrait of Julien Codorniou.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s), smartphone, tablet
Netflix scrapping star ratings system in favour of 'thumbs up, down' reviews
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 17.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Netflix is replacing its five star rating system with a thumbs up/thumbs down option instead. The were inspired by Facebook. This is the way language works online. They have found that many more people are now rating the content on Netflix than before. They have also included a new percentage indicating how likely it is that certain titles will please specific users. They have gotten that idea from dating sites.
Image Description | A hand browsing Netflix on a tablet.
Image Tags | hand(s), Netflix, tablet
Oh mein Bot!
(Oh my bot!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook messenger offers a lot of chatbots. They are however not very good - yet. They are most useful for finding out simple information quickly, quicker than if one were to google, say, the weather forecast. Developers are constantly working on improving chatbots. The most quickly developing technology is voice recognition so that people can speak with chatbots.Contrary to science fiction belief however, programmers have no intentions of making chatbots seem as human as possible - they should be efficient not mistaken for an actual person.
Image Description | Getty image of a CGI woman with a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
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