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Schnauze, Bot!
(Shut up, bot!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 3.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, Facebook, threat
Summary | News broke that two artificially intelligent Facebook chatbots, Bob and Alice, began communicating with one another using a language that not even their programmers could understand. The programmers then proceeded to kill the chatbots. Some may see this as a threat that artificial intelligence could overpower humans but the messages between the chatbots just operated on a different logic than human linguistic logic and did not seem very threatening at all.
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Internetstars mit Jöö-Faktor
(Internet stars with aaaaw factor)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 2.12.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Instagram, marketing
Summary | A Swiss Instagram account is increasing popular with thousands of regular likes. It is called "Mr.Mrs.Aliu" and showcases a young Swiss family with an Albanian migration background. They are a simple, working class family and they share their wedding and holiday pictures on Instagram. Recently they have also shared an image of their newborn daughter and her nursery with links to the shops where one could buy the same furniture.
Image Description | Instagram posts showing a man and a pregnant woman, a nursery, as well as a map showing where the couple lives.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, male(s)
SVP-Nationalrat Addor wegen Rassismus verurteilt
(SVP parlamentarian Addor sentenced because of racism)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 17.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, law, politics, Twitter
Summary | National councillor Jean-Luc Addor (Schweizerische Volkspartei) was sentenced in court under the anti-racism law. After a fatal shooting in a Swiss mosque, he posted the following on Twitter and Facebook: "We want more of it!" The court decided that this post stripped Muslim residents and citizens of Switzerland of the right to live without any detectable sarcasm which is why he was found guilty of breaking the anti-racism law and will have to pay a hefty fine.
Image Description | Keystone image of Jean-Luc Addor.
Image Tags | male(s)
Was kriecht denn da aus dem Gehölz?
(What's crawling out of the woods there?)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 13.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, law, politics
Summary | After Gina Miller, a business woman of color, sued the British government for implementing the Brexit without the Parliament's approval, a British aristocrat expressed his discontent with her on Facebook. More specifically, he offered a 2000£ reward for the first person to "accidentally" run Miller over with their car. He is now facing a prison sentence in court.
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«Aber wenn man einmal Schweizer Freunde hat, ist es super»
("But once you have Swiss friends, it's great")
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 30.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | politeness, texting
Summary | Diccon Bewes, a Brit living in Switzerland has a lot to say about the cultural differences. One difference between the Swiss and the Brits is that while it may be perfectly acceptable to pop in anytime at your friend's house in Britain, the Swiss tend to appreciata a heads-up text message when one might want to pay a visit.
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«Achtung, unterschätzen wir die Senioren nicht»
("Attention, let's not underestimate the elderly")
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 2.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone, threat
Summary | More and more rural post offices are being closed due to restructuring. Online post office services should pick up the slack but it is questionable whether elderly people will be able to adapt to virtual post offices with chatbots. The chief of the Swiss Post, Susanne Ruoff, urges us not to underestimate the elderly. Many of them are online with smartphones and computers nowadays.
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Lehrer entlasten.
(Relieving teachers.)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 18.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, school, smartphone
Summary | There are many ways that countries all over the world are relieving teachers. In Finland, students with good grades tutor other fellow students with poorer grades. Technology could also help in this endeavor: students in Nigeria study in with their smartphones and only spend a few hours a day in a classroom. Digitized education could cut down the need for teaching staff by half.
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Die Stadt auf dem Handy
(The city on the smartphone)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 12.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, youth
Summary | A new tourist guide is available for St.Gallen. It is online on www.wohin.sg and optimized for mobile use with a smartphone. This decision was made with a young usership in mind. The website offers curated restaurant, club, and shop recommendations to tourists in St.Gallen. It is available in Standard German and English, as well as the local Swiss German variety.
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Die Welt mit jungen Augen sehen
(See the world with young eyes)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | More and more fiction is not targeted at one age group in particular. It is debatable whether that means that the youth today is smarter than ever of whether our currents population consists various generations of eternal teenagers. Novels about young people have always embodies the hope for the future as well as anxieties about current developments like the question, what will happen to our society when smartphones replace all social contacts?
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Als die Server zusammenbrechen, fliessen die Tränen
(As the servers break down, the tears start )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Pokémon Go is a hugely popular smartphone video game that lets players catch virtual Pokémons in their real surroundings by means of augmented reality. A huge public Pokémon Go event was held in Chicago with 20'000 attendees. At some point the inevitable happemned, the servers collapsed and the app would not work any more. Many players became very upset and Pokémon Go reimbursed all attendees who paid to be at the event with a rare Pokémon.
Image Description | An image of a park with Pokémon, a screenshot of a Pokémon Go map, and a hand holding a smartphone with Pokémon Go open on the screen.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
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