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Forget Pokémon GO - these are the augmented reality experiences that'll soon be invading your life
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | virtual reality
Summary | Augmented reality will soon be part of every aspect of our lives (e.g. at work, on the slopes, in your house). Mark Zuckerberg said that augmented reality will eventually replace our desktops and smartphones.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman wearing an augmented reality glasses, person skiing, an engineer working, hand holding a smartphone displaying a translation of the French "sortie" into the English "exit", two smartphones displaying a geo-location app.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
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
Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
Is this the first Instagram masterpiece?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 18.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Amalia Ulman started posting pictures on Instagram. She posed in lingerie, bragged about her lifestyle in LA, claimed she attended pole-dancing classes and had breast-enlargement surgery. People started hating her. However, all those pictures were a joke. Ulman had been playing a role, and all of her 89,244 followers had been fooled. She said that everything was planned with a beginning, a climax and an end. She was acting. Now, her pictures will be shown in two new exhibitions.
Image Description | Four Instagram pictures of Amalia Ulman
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Forget India - Lenovo is betting on Africa as next big smartphone market
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 27.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | Eric Cador, president of Lenovo in Europe, Middle East and Africa, wants to reach Africa. Africa can be the next great market and smartphone superpower. By 2020, around 70 per cent of Africans will be using smartphones. Lenovo is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a picture of someone with a smartphone, photograph of Eric Cador, chart representing 2015 smartphone vendor market share, photograph of a laptop
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), male(s), smartphone
Spies could activate iPhone cameras and microphones if FBI forces us, says Apple
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 10.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, threat
Summary | If the FBI wins the court battle over the unlocking of a terrorist's iPhone, it could lead to abuse. Indeed, the government could keep asking for access to people's phones in order to spy on civilians. Apple refused to let the FBI unlock the iPhone; if they create a special software to unlock iPhones, it could compromise the security of a lot of iPhone users.
Image Description | Photograph of an iPhone and photograph of a man speaking,
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
What Google's grand Go victory means: Technology is about to get a lot smarter
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, game
Summary | For the first time in history, artificial intelligence (AlphaGo program) beat the world champion in the game of Go (board game). This victory is important for the future of AI and Google. The principles used with AlphaGo can be used to improve Google’s products (e.g. search, translation, photos, videos and social media). AlphaGo's algorithms are very similar to how a human brain works.
Image Description | Photograph of South Korean world Go champion, two men in front of a chart, smartphone, and two videos
Image Tags | chart, male(s), smartphone
Robots will replace customer service agents - thank god for that
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Chatbots are taking over the world. On Facebook Messenger for instance, you can ask a shopping concierge bot what you want to buy. The bot will then tailor options to your price range. This is what the future looks like: robot customer service agents. They will kill the customer service industry that we know. However, those bots will lack a human touch.
Image Description | Photograph of an iPhone screen displaying a conversation with the bot "Spring", chart showing the number of call center employees, photograph of a reception desk with a robot and real people, photograph of telemarketers
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Stuck on your GCSE and A Level revision? This app can help
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | school, smartphone
Summary | Gojimo is a revision app for GCSE and A level revisions. It includes more than 180,000 quizzes, and it can also connect students with tutors.
Image Description | Photograph of a classroom/exam room full of students, three iPhones displaying some of Gojimo's features, portrait of the founder of Gojimo, photograph of an iPhone screen displaying the app.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Apple's next big hit? Company working on Siri-powered AI speaker
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 25.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Apple might soon release a digital assistant similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home. The smart speaker would work like Siri on your iPhone. Amazon's Alexa/Echo is very popular in the US and shows the power of voice control.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "What can I help you with?", photograph of a man holding Google Home
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
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