Number of Posts: 17
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Google 'professional women' emoji nominated for Design of the Year
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, Google
Summary | The Design Museum in London nominated Google's professional emojis for design of the year. Google introduced a new set of emojis to better reflect women's situation.
Image Description | Images of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Google marks World Emoji Day with a brand new set of emoji and bids farewell to its 'blobs'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Google
Summary | Google unveiled its new emojis on World Emoji Day. Google said they would remove their 'blobs' and add a new set of emojis.
Image Description | Images of Google's new emojis, and people dressed up as emojis in London.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Facebook and Google activate safety features after Barcelona attack: How to mark yourself safe
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 17.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, threat
Summary | After the Barcelona attacks, Facebook and Google have activated their safety features.
Image Description | Screenshots of Facebook and Google's safety features, and three tweets.
Image Tags | Facebook, Google, Twitter
A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 23.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Google, research/study, social media, threat, YouTube
Summary | Social media companies have only recently begun waking up to the fact that their unpoliced platforms are safe spaces for all kinds of extremism. Studies show that extremists nowadays get radicalized online, whether they be islamists or white supremacists. While these two movements may differ in ideologies, they resemble each otehr very strongly in their internet strategies of recruitment and organization of offline events. A research group at Google has now come up with a diversion strategy to combat the radicalization of individuals online. They target people who watch extremist recruitment videos on YouTube with video suggestions that present differing arguments and the downsides of that ideology. So far, there can be no knowing whether this strategy is helping but the redirection videos are being watched.
Image Description | GIF with mouse cursor arrows: black arrows surrounding a white arrow.
Image Tags | gifs
Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence systems have made huge development leaps in recent times but there is still a lot of learning to do. The image recognition AI assistants of Facebook and Google demonstrate how, on the one hand, they can recognize a lot of images correctly if they have had enough data to learn from and, on the other hand, how it still makes bold mistakes. It suffices to manipulate a few pixels and the AI system gets confused. Developing AI systems not only takes a lot of data but also trial and error phases which are monitored and taught by human teachers.
Image Description | Programmers working on computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: A Snap and Google Tie-Up?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat
Summary | There is a rumor that Google might be interested in acquiring Snapchat. Instagram copies all features of Snapchat. Facebook has built a huge marketing company with Facebook itself and Instagram. Facebook is also working on improving its artificially intelligent chatbots so that they get better at understanding natural speech.
Image Description | Google and Snapchat logo.
Image Tags | Google, logo, Snapchat
YouTube Sets Policies To Restrict Extremism
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, threat, YouTube
Summary | Google has been using artificial intelligence to weed out offensive videos from YouTube and take them down. It is quite good at detecting nudity, graphic violence, and copyright violations. However, other less straightforward offensive material remains on the platform such as cultish sermons by extremist muslims. These are however not being monetized by displaying advertising next to them.
Image Description | An image of the London Tower and a portrait of a man.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Daily Report: The Limits of A.I.
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, YouTube
Summary | Facebook wants to use artificial intelligence to remove offensive content from their platform. It is however not easy to teach a computer the nuances of offence. Google has tried to do the same thing on YouTube and they have definitely required human employees to double-check the content the artificial intelligence program has flagged.
Image Description | N/A
In Europe’s Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 1.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | computer programming, Facebook, fake news, Google, law, politics
Summary | In light of recent elections, many people are eager to combat misinformation online. Major tech companies like Facebook and Google are being pressured to purdue solutions to stop the spread of fake news on their platforms. Germany even demands fines from Facebook for not complying with federal laws targeted at keeping hate speech and fake news controled. Competitions with rewards of several thousand dollars are asking for programmers to come up with fact-checking software which can weed out false news.
Image Description | Image of a computer programmer working on solutions to flag fake news and a Reuters image of election posters from France.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
We tried Google's new fact-check filter on the Internet's favorite hoaxes
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 10.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | fake news, Google
Summary | Google has been working towards fact-checking the stories on Google News and enabling users to fact-check critical information quickly. Unfortunately, it does not always work. Oftentimes finding the correct information depends on which particular words are typed in the search bar.
Image Description | N/A
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