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China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, Google, Instagram, privacy, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp
Summary | The Chinese government has partly shut down the use of WhatsApp within their borders. The app is widely used around the globe and was used by some in China do communicate with people outside of Chine with end-to-end encryption. Other popular social media platforms and internet sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are blocked under the "Great Firewall" in China.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone and women standing in front of Facebook and Instagram logos as well as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Instagram, logo, smartphone
Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen
(This is behind Google's addiction for innovations)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, translation
Summary | Google is always after the most exciting innovations. Their main focus at the moment is on artificial intelligence assistants which can be operated conversationally. Because they are voice-activated, issues with privacy come up: is Google's AI assistant constantly listening in? Google is working on solutions for making privacy settings as customizable as possible. Another big focus is translation. Google translate can already operate in 100 languages and now users can even scan, say a restaurant menu, and get it translated right away.
Image Description | Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)
« Google a toujours été une entreprise d'intelligence artificielle »
("Google has always been an artificial intelligence company")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 18.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Google, threat, translation
Summary | The project Google Brain focuses on machine learning and deep learning. The founder of the project, Greg Corrado, claims that Google has always been an artificial intelligence company. Deep learning has changed the ways in which machines learn. One of the goals of deep learning will be to improve machine translation. Voice recognition works well now, but machine translation is not perfect yet. Regarding ethical questions and safety, Corrado says that we should have an open discussion.
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