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App that could help couples head off a blazing row
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A new app will send you an alert when a fight with your partner is about to happen. The researchers who created the app hope the technology can save relationships. The app uses algorithms that analyze the language and physiological characteristics of fights. For the algorithm to work correctly, couples had to wear a wristband sensor that measured the electricity through the skin. It also measured body temperature and heart rate.
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AI in your earphones? The brave new world of hearables
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | "Hearables" are earbuds/headphones that work with artificial intelligence. They can translate foreign languages, be personal assistants, or improve your hearing. In the future, we might even be able to get rid of our smartphones because earbuds will have anything we want.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman wearing earbuds.
Image Tags | headphones
Samsung launches Bixby voice assistant in the UK to rival Siri and Alexa
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Samsung unveiled a new voice assistant called Bixby, which is available for Galaxy S8 users. Users can use the voice command in order to perform tasks that would require them to use applications and/or clicks. They can for instance say "good night" in order to turn on an alarm. Thanks to Bixby, Samsung users can also take selfies and post pictures on social media.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in front of a giant smartphone on a screen, slideshow explaining how Bixby works, and one of Samsung Mobile's tweets.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, Twitter
A robot Rembrandt? I'll eat my beret!
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Google’s Creative Lab just unveiled a new tool that can transform a photo into a drawing. Robots won't be able to master every human skill, and portraiture is one of those skills robots will never be able to replicate. Robots can't do art; they are just following what they have been programmed to do.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone next to a series of portraits, and video about the new tool.
Image Tags | smartphone
'It was so simple and easy': the nursing home improving care with tech
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A nursing home in London developed an app to faciliate administrative work. Many social organisations still use more traditional ways of recording data; for instance, they take notes by hand about their residents. But this can be time consuming. The London-based nursing home called Nightingale worked with a team to create a smartphone app that would facilitate workers and nurses' work. Thanks to the app, care workers can now enter patient information digitally. The app uses algorithms and language recognition.
Image Description | Photograph of a nurse using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Google boss on life beyond the smartphone and how the company will pay more tax in the UK
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The author of the article first describes Google headquarters (objects, atmosphere, workers etc.). She then talks about Sundar Pichai (Google's chief executive). Pichai wants people to see Google as a full-on assistant that can help them accomplish all sorts of tasks. In the future, Pichai wants Google to target homes and cars. The future is also linked to artificial intelligence. They want to work with new techniques that relie on neural networks in order to allow computers to teach themselves. Pichai talks about the future: using AI in medicine, privacy issures, personal assistants, Google search option, Google translate, and other services.
Image Description | Four photographs of Sundar Pichai, Google HQ, man holding Google Home and speaking, driveless car, video about the history of Google
Image Tags | Google, male(s)
What are AirPods and why has Apple dropped the headphone jack?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Apple announced that the new iPhone 7 would not have any headphone jack; instead, they will introduce wireless headphones (AirPods). The future is wireless, and the goal is to make headphones smarter.
Image Description | Two videos introducing the headphones, photographs of the headphones, screenshot of Lance Ulanoff's tweet about the headphones, photograph of a man wearing an AirPod, screenshot of James Titcomb's tweet, photograph of a hand holding the AirPods and another hand taking a picture of the AirPods with an iPhone.
Image Tags | hand(s), headphones, male(s), smartphone
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