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Taliban app removed from Google Play Store

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, social media, threat
Summary | Google Play store removed an app that was developed by the Taliban and that was created as part of a digital campaign by the Taliban to grow its audience. The app gave users access to the Taliban's Pashto website. The group is also trying to maintain constant presence on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of Taliban fighters.
Image Tags | male(s)

Googles künstlich intelligenter Chat-Freund

(Google's artificially intelligent chat friend)

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Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 8.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, social media
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging app called Allo. Messaging apps are hailed to be the new thing after social media. Especially messaging apps lie the Chinese WeChat or Allo which have an AI assistant with which users can easily get simple information from within the app, transmit payments, or open a small shop that operates through the app.
Image Description | Reuters image of a man presenting Allo at a conference and a few screenshots of conversations with Allo's chatbot.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), text

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