Number of Posts: 28
Posts 1 - 10
Dad confiscates daughter's iPhone - then makes punishment even worse with savage joke
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
The dangerous teenage texting slang that all parents should be aware of
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat, youth
Summary | Young people are always creating new "texting language". Parents should try to keep track of this language evolution, because the online world can be dangerous. A chief parent officer of software program Bark said that she's still surprised that some parents don't know what Netflix and chill’ means -it means sex. Different surveillance softwares help parents to keep an eye their children's texting habits. For instance, Bark is a surveillance software that can recognize when kids are joking and when they are serious.
Image Description | Three photographs of young girls on their smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Awkward anti-texting ad gives motorists very good reason to put their phones away while driving
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat
Summary | An anti-texting ad shows good reasons to put one's phone away while driving.
Image Description | Video of the ad, and two screenshots of the ad displaying people in a car.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook Messenger's new bots are a powerful way to target adverts
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, texting
Summary | Bots are becoming more and more popular and are taking over apps. Facebook Messenger will soon have its bots. Three types of bots were unveiled at a conference in San Francisco. The goal is to create bots that will learn what you like and don't like. But then, Facebook can let brands get in touch with you through Messenger; it's a marketing/advertising strategy.
Image Description | Photographs of different smartphone screens displaying chat conversations.
Image Tags | smartphone, text
I can't be trusted with Google's texting app
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, language threat, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Google's new Allo app is supposed to make you save time while you're texing, but it can sometimes lead to misunderstandings. The author of the article doesn't really like emojis and doesn't know how to use them well. She doesn't follow young people's digital habits. Their generation favors brevity, which can have a negative impact on language.
Image Description | Photograph of two young girls on their smartphones, two smartphones displaying chat conversations, and a man standing in front of a screen displaying "Allo" and "Duo".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Britain shines in AI - but let's nurture it
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | British entrepreneurs and investors are doing good; the app Swiftkey was created by three Cambridge graduates and attracted the attention of Silicon Valley.
The Cambridge graduates founded Swiftkey, an app that uses artificial intelligence to predict the next word you can type. Nevertheless, Swiftkey is not the first UK company to be successful; Amazon was the first one. The reason why Britain is so strong in this competitive area might be because of the locations of the startups (e.g. Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College and University College London)
Image Description | Screenshot of a scene of the movie Ex Machina where we can see a robot and a woman, photograph of two men, photograph of a man holding his head looking defeated next to a chess game, video of the board game Go.
Image Tags | female(s), game, male(s)
Could a text become your will? The plans to revolutionise 'outdated' legacy system
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | law, texting, word/writing
Summary | The Law Commission thinks that the legacy system is outdated and that it needs to be updated to keep up with our digital world. For instance, the Commission suggests that we should allow notes, emails and voicemail messages instead of a written will.
Image Description | Photograph of a part of a written will
Daughter's hilarious text messages tormenting her mother
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting
Summary | Liz Hammett is 36 and her screenshots of text message conversations with her mother went viral.
Image Description | 10 screenshots of text message conversations
Image Tags | text
'WhatsYapp' dog collar claims to translate your pooch's barks into human language
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsYapp is a smart dog collar that is supposed to help owners understand what their dogs want. Every time your dogs barks, the device translates the noise into words and sends you a message (like WhatsApp).
Image Description | Design of the smart collar prototype, smartphone screen displaying the picture of a dog and a conversation, two videos of pets
Image Tags | smartphone, text
The end of apps is here. Long live chat bots
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting, threat
Summary | Apps will soon disappear as bots keep rising. Bots are helpful assistant that can chat with you within any app. Thanks to bots, you can book a table at a restaurant, or make an appointment. You just have to write a message (e.g. on Facebook or Skype), and "someone" will text you back. However, bots are not perfect. Microsoft's bot Tay expressed racist and hateful comments.
Image Description | Digital image representing a collage of a lot of apps, screenshot of a computer screen, chart, hand holding a smartphone displaying a conversation, David Marcus's Facebook post, smartphone screen showing how you can add a bot on Skype, and Tay Tweets account
Image Tags | chart, Facebook, hand(s), Skype, smartphone, text, Twitter
Page 1 of 3
Back |
Next